Browsing Economic and Social Review by Author "Madden, David"
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A Formal Investigation of Inequalities in Health Behaviours After Age 50 on the Island of Ireland
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A new set of consumer demand estimates for Ireland
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1993)This paper provides a new set of consumer demand estimates for Ireland, incorporating a variety of different consumer demand models. Own-price and expenditure elasticities are presented and tests of the propositions implied ... -
Can we infer external effects from a study of the Irish indirect tax system?
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1992)This paper estimates implied external effects for the Irish indirect tax system for the year 1987. The study uses the inverse optimum technique of Christiansen and Jansen (1978) which estimates implied external effects, ... -
Doctors? fees in Ireland following the change in reimbursement: did they jump?
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2007)This paper analyses the pure time-series properties of doctors? fees in Ireland to assess whether a structural change in the series is observed at the time of the change in reimbursement in 1989. Such a break would be ... -
Indirect tax reform in Ireland
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1989)The Irish tax system is characterised by a narrow base with high rates. This is true of both the direct and indirect system. This paper examines the possibilities for indirect tax reform in Ireland. A model of the economy ... -
Poverty in Ireland, 1987-1994: a stochastic dominance approach
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2000)Poverty dominance analysis uses stochastic dominance to provide rankings of distributions in terms of poverty which are not sensitive to the choice of poverty line. This analysis is carried out for Ireland using Household ... -
The Socio-economic gradient of obesity in Ireland – Corrigendum
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2014)In a paper published in this journal in 2013 concentration indices for obesity were presented for male and female obesity. Decompositions of the indices were also presented. There was an error in the calculations which led ... -
Winners and losers on the roller-coaster: Ireland, 2003-2011
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2014)This paper applies the methodology of Ravallion and Chen in calculating growth incidence curves for Ireland over the 2003-2011 period, using measures of equivalised disposable income from the Survey of Income and Living ...
