Mental stress in Ireland, 1994–2000: a stochastic dominance approach
使用随机占优技术，发现无论采用何种阈值，1994-2000年间爱尔兰的精神压力水平均有所下降，主要归因于失业率变化以及收入、教育和婚姻状况对精神健康的保护效应。
The General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) is frequently used as a measure of mental well-being with those people with values below a certain threshold regarded as suffering from mental stress. Comparison of mental stress levels across populations may then be sensitive to the chosen threshold. This paper uses stochastic dominance techniques to show that mental stress fell in Ireland over the 1994-2000 period regardless of the threshold chosen. Decomposition techniques suggest that changes in the proportion unemployed and in the protective effect of income, education and marital status upon mental health were the principal factors underlying this fall.