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  • The Exit Option: How ethnopolitical exclusion influences emigration desire from sub-Saharan Africa 

    Abboud, Eman (Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Political Science, 2023)
    To what extent and in what ways does politicized ethnicity drive migration desire in sub-Saharan Africa? This question matters because migration from Africa has received much attention in the media and by policy makers, ...

  • Essays in applied microeconomics 

    Kleis, Mischa (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 ...

  • Promoting peace or inciting violence? Explaining how decentralisation systematically affects the propensity of regional ethnic conflict 

    McArdle, Michele Panza (Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Political Science, 2023)
    This thesis investigates the varying effects of decentralisation on ethnic conflict. It seeks to offer a unified theory explaining why the outcomes of decentralisation reforms differ. More specifically it studies how these ...

  • Fossil Fuel Interests in Environmental and Climate Policy: Evidence of Influence and Institutionalised Participation 

    Saydon, Giulia (Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Political Science, 2023)
    Do fossil fuel interest groups and companies engage in systematic participation in institutions of state-society relations such as public consultations in pursuit of policy influence in the area of environment and climate? ...

  • Essays in Macroeconomics 

    Athanasopoulos, Angelos (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 ...

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