This paper measures the degree of inequality of opportunity in birthweight and birthlength for a sample of Irish … tests reveal the presence of inequality of opportunity but its fraction of total inequality is comparatively small at 1 …-2%, with the remainder of inequality assigned to random, unobserved factors. These results are robust to finer partitioning of …

, quality of life and mortality. Understanding inequality in relation to these behaviours among older people is important in the … context of a rapidly ageing population. In this study, we examine income-related inequality in relation to these three key … indices and decompose them to determine the factors which contribute most to inequality. We then examine whether differences …

This paper reviews methods for studying dominance and inequality in health economics. It concentrates on "pure … inequality" as opposed to inequality which is related to income or some other measure of household resources. The paper reviews …

period though there is some evidence of a reduction in health inequality from 2006. Movements in bi-dimensional poverty are …This paper reviews developments in income and health poverty in Ireland over the 2003-2011 period using data from the … poverty fell up to and including 2009, after which this trend is reversed. Health poverty shows less of a trend over the …

. Such taxes have been criticised on the basis of their regressivity and potentially adverse impact upon poverty. This paper … analyses the effect of such taxes on a range of poverty measures and also examines the effect of a revenueneutral tax subsidy … neutral with respect to poverty. …

Recent advances in the measurement of bi-dimensional poverty are applied to a measure of poverty which incorporates … income and health poverty. The correlation between income and poverty is examined using the Receiver Operating … Characteristics curve. Following from this unidimensional and bi-dimensional poverty indices are calculated for Ireland for the years …

This paper examines multidimensional poverty for three waves of a cohort of Irish children ranging from ages 9 to 17 …. Poverty is measured over the dimensions of health, education and family resources and both unidimensional and multidimensional … poverty is examined. Both show a clear gradient with respect to maternal education. The dynamics of both unidimensional and …