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Self-reported health in good times and in bad: Ireland in the 21st century
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Date Issued
2016-08
Date Available
2016-09-02T14:06:08Z
Abstract
The Great Recession has renewed interest in whether and how health responds to macroeconomic changes. Ireland provides a convenient natural experiment to examine this since a period of sustained high growth and low unemployment – the so-called Celtic Tiger period- gave way to a deep recession following the economic crisis in 2008. We use data from the Statistics on Income and Living Conditions survey (SILC), to explore what happened to self-reported health over the period 2002-2014. While some sub-populations experienced pro-cyclical effects on self-rated health, in general we find no evidence that the proportion of the population in poor health was higher after the onset of the economic crisis. However a multivariate model implies that there was some effect at the top of the health distribution with a higher unemployment rate switching individuals from being in “very good health” to “good health”. Effect sizes are much larger for females than males.
Type of Material
Working Paper
Publisher
University College Dublin. School of Economics
Start Page
1
End Page
19
Series
UCD Centre for Economic Research Working Paper Series
WP2016/07
Classification
I18
I14
J60
Language
English
Status of Item
Not peer reviewed
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