Economics (Theses and Dissertations)
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Essays in Development Economics: Poverty, Religion and Mental Health
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2023)This dissertation includes three standalone chapters, each focused on augmenting our knowledge of three issues in the literature on asset transfers, religion, and mental health. The first essay (Chapter 1) investigates ... -
Essays in Political Economics and Political Communication
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2023)This dissertation consists of three essays on political economics with a particular focus on the effect of political communication. First, it studies how politicians way of speaking reacts in the aftermath of a salient ... -
Essays in Family Economics and Gender
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2023)This dissertation consists of three essays on family economics and gender. It delves into the problems families face with an emphasis on women. The first essay looks at how parents with different preferences take joint ... -
Essays in applied microeconomics
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2023)The first essay studies the effects of access to assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) on fertility and labor market outcomes. Drawing on quasi-experimental variation in expected costs for ARTs and data from the German ... -
Essays in Macroeconomics
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2023)This dissertation is a collection of three essays in empirical macroeconomics. Chapter 1 examines the long-run effects of central bank independence on inflation. Applying a dynamic panel strategy to account for the ...