Economic and Social Review: Recent submissions
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COUNCIL MEMBERS' REPORT AND FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2021
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2021)COUNCIL MEMBERS' REPORT AND FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2021 -
COUNCIL MEMBERS' REPORT AND FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2019
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2020)COUNCIL MEMBERS' REPORT AND FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2019 -
Socio-economic Differentials in Male Mortality in Ireland 1984-2008
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2016)The presence of pronounced inequalities in mortality and life expectancy across income, education and social groups has long been a “stylized fact” of demography. Research across a large number of developed and wealthy ... -
Informal Cost of Dementia Care – A Proxy-Good Valuation in Ireland
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2011)This paper values the informal costs of dementia care in Ireland based on recently agreed national costing framework. Drawing on a survey of 270 Irish dementia caregivers, the hours of informal care per day are estimated ... -
Denis Conniffe – An Obituary
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Competition in Primary Healthcare in Ireland: More and Better Services for Less Money
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2011)Understanding precisely the nature of competition in primary healthcare has an important role to play in understanding how to improve the delivery of healthcare services. This is particularly the case in Ireland, where the ... -
Race-to-the-Bottom or -Top at Home or Abroad: Health and Safety Standards and the Multinational Firm
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2011)We develop a model to illustrate potential complexities in the relationship between corporate geographical diversification and the health and safety (H&S) standards set in national jurisdictions. A firm, that initially has ... -
The Demand for League of Ireland Football
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The Relative Age Effect and Under-21 Irish Association Football: A Natural Experiment and Policy Recommendations
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2015)A relative age effect refers to the presence of a bias towards relatively older children assembled collectively within a selection year. We consider this in association football (soccer) for Republic of Ireland under ... -
Are Classroom Internet Use and Academic Performance Higher after Government Broadband Subsidies to Primary Schools?
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A Formal Investigation of Inequalities in Health Behaviours After Age 50 on the Island of Ireland
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Outsourcing Foreign Services and the Internet: Evidence from Firm Level Data
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Is fuel poverty in Ireland a distinct type of deprivation?
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2014)In this paper, we draw on the Central Statistics Office SILC data for Ireland to ask whether fuel poverty is a distinctive type of deprivation that warrants a fundamentally different policy response than poverty in general. ... -
Do credit constraints affect SME investment and employment?
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2014)This paper explores the potential presence of credit constraints confronting Irish SMEs and investigates the impact of these constraints on firms’ employment and investment. Using new survey data collected by the Department ... -
Winners and losers on the roller-coaster: Ireland, 2003-2011
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2014)This paper applies the methodology of Ravallion and Chen in calculating growth incidence curves for Ireland over the 2003-2011 period, using measures of equivalised disposable income from the Survey of Income and Living ... -
Middle class squeeze? Social class and perceived financial hardship in Ireland, 2002-2012
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2014)Ireland has been particularly hit by the economic downturn of 2008. For many families in Ireland the economic downturn put strong pressures on their household budgets. This study examines how the recession has changed class ... -
The risks of intuition: Size, costs and economies of scale in local government
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2014)Extensive international research surrounds the optimal size of local government and associated issues of amalgamations and economies of scale in local government. Given recent structural reforms of Irish local government, ... -
Income and wealth in The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2014)Between 2009 and 2011, data were collected under the first wave of The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA). Over 8,500 people aged 50 and over and living in Ireland were interviewed about a wide range of topics ... -
The Socio-economic gradient of obesity in Ireland – Corrigendum
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2014)In a paper published in this journal in 2013 concentration indices for obesity were presented for male and female obesity. Decompositions of the indices were also presented. There was an error in the calculations which led ... -
Maternal country of birth differences in breastfeeding at hospital discharge in Ireland
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2014)In 2010, 46 per cent of Irish-born mothers were breastfeeding at hospital discharge, in comparison with 84 per cent of non-Irish-born mothers. Using data from the Irish National Perinatal Reporting System, we find that ...