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Estimating Historical Landfill Quantities to Predict Methane Emissions
(ESRI, 2009)
We estimate Irish historical landfill quantities from 1960 -2008 and Irish methane emissions from 1968-2006. A model is constructed in which waste generation is a function of income, price of waste disposal and, household ...
The Impact of Changes in Educational Attainment on Life Expectancy in Ireland
(ESRI, 2011)
The purpose of this article is to quantify the contribution of the increasing educational attainment of the Irish population to the prospective improvement in life expectancy over the next 50 years. This analysis uses ...
The Impact of Government Policy on Private Car Ownership in Ireland
(2011)
We construct a model of the stock of private cars in the Republic of Ireland. The model distinguishes cars by fuel, engine size and age. The modelled car stock is built up from a long history of data on sales, and calibrated ...
The Distributional Effects of Value Added Tax in Ireland
(2011)
In this paper we examine the distributional effects of Value Added Tax (VAT) in Ireland. Using the 2004/2005 Household Budget Survey, we assess the amount of VAT that households pay as a proportion of weekly disposable ...
On International Equity Weights and National Decision Making on Climate Change
(ESRI, 2011)
Climate change is a moral problem. The main reason to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is a concern for faraway lands (Schelling 2000), distant futures (Nordhaus 1982), and remote probabilities (Weitzman 2009). The people ...
Trade, Energy, and Carbon Dioxide: An Analysis for the Two Economies of Ireland
(ESRI, 2012)
In this paper we use a subsystem input?output decomposition analysis to examine the drivers of greenhouse gas emissions in the Republic of Ireland and in Northern Ireland. We use a bi?regional input?output analysis to look ...
Selling State Assets: Three Options
(ESRI, 2011)
Under the EU/IMF Programme for Financial Support for Ireland, the government undertook to consider the potential for disposing of State assets. In the 2011 Programme for Government a target of up to ?2 billion was set for ...
Credit Where Credit's Due: Accounting for Co-Authorship in Citation Counts
(2011)
I propose a new method (Pareto weights) to objectively attribute citations to co-authors. Previous methods either profess ignorance about the seniority of co-authors (egalitarian weights) or are based in an ad hoc way on ...