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Economic and Social Research Institute
Nonprofit•Dublin, Ireland•
About: Economic and Social Research Institute is a nonprofit organization based out in Dublin, Ireland. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & European union. The organization has 425 authors who have published 1530 publications receiving 41567 citations.
Topics: Population, European union, Irish, Poverty, Health care
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine an hypothesis about dowry payments in the light of certain evidence from Ireland, and draw attention to some of the deficiencies in Goody's definition and discussion of dowry payment, and offer alternatives to them.
Abstract: In this essay I propose to examine an hypothesis about dowry payments in the light of certain evidence from Ireland. The sources of this evidence are, first, my own data collected during fieldwork in the small community of Beaufort, County Kerry, Ireland, and, second, the work of writers who have studied the question of dowry payment in Ireland, notably Conrad M. Arensberg, Solon T. Kimball, and K. H. Connell. The intent here is to draw attention to some of the deficiencies in Jack Goody's definition and discussion of dowry payments, and to offer alternatives to them. In particular I shall argue that Goody's discussion of dowry is centrally flawed by a discrepancy between the generality of the variables he uses to explain the geographical distribution of the practice, and the specificity of his definition of it. It is the unwarranted detail involved in the latter that leads him to obscure certain crucial variations within dowry systems more broadly defined, and to confuse the issue of the relationship between dowry and bride wealth.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed how people's attitudes towards onshore wind power and overhead transmission lines affect the cost-optimal development of electricity generation mixes, under a high renewable energy policy.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used data on 8162 adults >50 years old in the Republic of Ireland to model associations between estimated annual outdoor concentration of NO2 and the probability of having asthma.
Abstract: Background Links between air pollution and asthma are less well established for older adults than some younger groups. Nitrogen dioxide (NO2) concentrations are widely used as an indicator of transport-related air pollution, and some literature suggests NO2 may directly affect asthma. Methods This study used data on 8162 adults >50 years old in the Republic of Ireland to model associations between estimated annual outdoor concentration of NO2 and the probability of having asthma. Individual-level geo-coded survey data from The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA) were linked to model-based estimates of annual average NO2 at 50 m resolution. Asthma was identified using two methods: self-reported diagnoses and respondents' use of medications related to obstructive airway diseases. Logistic regressions were used to model the relationships. Results NO2 concentrations were positively associated with the probability of asthma [marginal effect (ME) per 1 ppb of airborne NO2 = 0.24 percentage points asthma self-report, 95% confidence interval (CI) 0.06-0.42, mean asthma prevalence 0.09; for use of relevant medications ME = 0.21 percentage points, 95% CI 0.049-0.37, mean prevalence 0.069]. Results were robust to varying model specification and time period. Respondents in the top fifth percentile of NO2 exposure had a larger effect size but also greater standard error (ME = 2.4 percentage points asthma self-report, 95% CI -0. 49 to 5.3). Conclusions Associations between local air pollution and asthma among older adults were found at relatively low concentrations. To illustrate this, the marginal effect of an increase in annual average NO2 concentration from sample minimum to median (2.5 ppb) represented about 7-8% of the sample average prevalence of asthma.
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TL;DR: This paper explored the role of social capital in mitigating the mental health harms of social/mobility restrictions instigated in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and found that at individual level social capital was associated with lower psychological distress.
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TL;DR: In this article, a new approach rooted in economic theory is proposed to analyse the relationship between fuel poverty and income poverty using self-reported data, and the model shows that neglecting the overlap between income and fuel poverty underestimates the metrics for the change in income poverty due to increases in carbon taxes.
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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Richard S.J. Tol | 116 | 695 | 48587 |
Mario Coccia | 72 | 398 | 12366 |
Marco Vivarelli | 58 | 265 | 9909 |
Joel W. Grube | 54 | 193 | 11499 |
Leslie Daly | 54 | 233 | 16133 |
René Kemp | 53 | 185 | 16666 |
Mark Wooden | 49 | 318 | 8783 |
Brian Nolan | 48 | 369 | 11371 |
Richard J. T. Klein | 47 | 126 | 18096 |
Christopher T. Whelan | 46 | 189 | 6687 |
Patrick Honohan | 44 | 234 | 9853 |
Richard Breen | 43 | 148 | 11007 |
Richard Layte | 42 | 212 | 7281 |
Katrin Rehdanz | 40 | 161 | 6453 |
Emer Smyth | 39 | 168 | 4245 |