Browsing Economics by Sponsor "Irish Research Council (IRC)"
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Consolidated Foreign Wealth of Nations: Initial steps and novel estimates
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2023)This thesis is made of three essays in International Macroeconomics. The central question these essays focus on is how to assess the international exposure of countries. The conventional approach uses the residence of the ... -
The deep roots of rebellion
(2022)This paper analyzes the triggers of rebellion and documents the historical roots of conflict using a unique dataset at the individual level. Drawing on evidence from the Famine (1845–1850) and its effect on the Irish ... -
Essays in applied microeconomics. Research collaboration and dissemination in economics
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2018)This dissertation studies the production and dissemination of economic research in three essays. The chapters explore data on economic research articles and their authors to study, first, the effect of national borders ... -
Essays in Behavioural Economics: Representation and Weighting of Numerical Information
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2022)This thesis consists of four essays. The first two essays (Chapters 2 and 3) present experimental tests of how numerical information is represented in the brain, and the implications of this representation for economic ... -
Essays in Development and Gender Economics
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2024)This thesis consists of three essays at the intersection of development and gender economics. Each chapter addresses significant questions that aim to understand the origins of harmful practices and norms that impact girls ... -
Essays in developmental economics: The role of information and access to financial services in changing financial and employment behaviour and the resulting impact on household welfare
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2018)This thesis contains three essays that analyse the financial access and information awareness constraints faced by individuals and household in developing countries for managing income uncertainty and income shocks. The ... -
Essays in International Macroeconomics
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2019)This dissertation consists of three essays in international macroeconomics. It lies at the intersection of balance of payments analysis and sectoral financial analysis. In particular, it makes use of newly available financial ... -
Essays in Political Economics
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2023)This dissertation consists of three essays on political economics. First, it studies how changes in the electoral design affect politicians and voters alike. Second, it studies the impact of criminal organisations on both ... -
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 Urban and Development Economics
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2024)This thesis consists of three essays at the intersection of urban, environmental, transport, development and labour economics. Each chapter tackles important questions regarding the role of new active mobility transport ... -
On the same boat: Three essays on the causes of pre-WWI Italian international migration
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2019)This thesis analyzes the causes of Italian mass international migration before the outbreak of WWI. While each chapter is a stand-alone paper that explores different motives and dynamics, there is a common quantitative ... -
Site-specific agronomic information and technology adoption: A field experiment from Ethiopia
(2022)Smallholder farmers in Africa typically only have access to blanket fertilizer recommendations which are defined over very broad areas and may not be optimal for local production conditions. The response to such recommendations ...
