The Great Recession, financial strain and self-assessed health in Ireland

Gintare Mazeikaite; Cathal O'Donoghue; Denisa M. Sologon

doi:10.1007/s10198-018-1019-6

The Great Recession, financial strain and self-assessed health in Ireland

Gintare Mazeikaite^*, Cathal O'Donoghue, Denisa M. Sologon

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Abstract

In this paper, we study the effects of the 2008 economic crisis on general health in one of the most severely affected EU economiesIreland. We examine the relationship between compositional changes in demographic and socio-economic factors, such as education, income, and financial strain, and changes in the prevalence of poor self-assessed health over a 5-year period (2008-2013). We apply a generalised Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition approach for non-linear regression models proposed by Fairlie (1999, 2005).

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	579-596
Number of pages	18
Journal	European Journal of Health Economics
Volume	20
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10198-018-1019-6
Publication status	Published - Jun 2019

JEL classifications

i15 - Health and Economic Development

Keywords

Population health
Economic crisis
Decomposition
Socio-economic factors
EU-SILC
BLINDER-OAXACA DECOMPOSITION
RATED HEALTH
ECONOMIC CRISES
HOUSING CRISIS
INCOME
INEQUALITIES
IMPACT
DEBT
DISCRIMINATION
DISPARITIES

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The Great Recession, financial strain and self-assessed health in Ireland

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