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Health and Wealth on the Roller-Coaster: Ireland, 2003–2011

verfasst von: David Madden

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The 2003–2011 period in Ireland can be viewed as a roller-coaster with years of high growth followed by years of deep recession. This paper reviews developments in income and health poverty in Ireland over that period using data from the survey of income and living conditions. Income and health poverty are examined both uni-dimensionally and bi-dimensionally using sequential stochastic dominance. Conventional poverty indices are also provided and the correlation between health and income poverty is also analysed Income poverty fell up to and including 2009, after which this trend is reversed. Health poverty shows less of a trend over the period though there is some evidence of a reduction in health inequality from 2006. Movements in bi-dimensional poverty are mostly driven by income poverty, but there is evidence of a reduction in the correlation between health and income poverty over the period.

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While the phrase “Celtic Tiger” is not favoured by all commentators [see for example Honohan and Walsh (2002), who prefer to label it the “Irish Hare”] by this stage it has become the standard phrase used to describe this period of high growth.

I am grateful to an anonymous referee for this point.

For a review of work in this area, see Lustig (2011).

In common with most of the literature in this area, we choose to work with the continuous as opposed to the discrete version of poverty measures when dealing with dominance issues.

Note that poverty dominance was first introduced by Atkinson (1987 ).

While there may be cardinal measures for certain dimensions of health such as blood pressure or BMI, in the absence of health indices such as the SF-36 it is usually the case that general health measures are ordinal and categorical.

Note that it is possible that responses to the self-assessed health question may differ systematically, so that, for example, an older person may view a given health state as “very good” while a younger person might view it only as “good”. This issue is typically addressed via anchoring vignettes and is beyond the scope of this paper. For a general discussion, see King and Wand (2007).

For details of the Irish part of EU-SILC see CSO (2007) and the documentation at http://www.cso.ie/eusilc/default.htm.

Details of the comparison between the distribution of income with and without those aged 16 and younger are available on request.

We also carried out the analysis without the data trimming and the qualitative results were very similar. Results available on request from author.

We analyse dominance using the “dompov” command in the DASP package of Ararr and Duclos (2012 ).

To economise on space we do not present standard errors for these statistics but they are available on request.

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Titel: Health and Wealth on the Roller-Coaster: Ireland, 2003–2011
verfasst von: David Madden
Publikationsdatum: 01.04.2015
Verlag: Springer Netherlands
Erschienen in: Social Indicators Research / Ausgabe 2/2015
Print ISSN: 0303-8300
Elektronische ISSN: 1573-0921
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-014-0644-4

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