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202024: Immigration and Redistribution

Benjamin Elsner and Jeff Concannon

202023: Understanding Persistence

Morgan Kelly

202022: On Plague and Ebola in a Time of COVID-19

Cormac Ó Gráda

202021: Should Early Health Investments Work? Evidence from an RCT of a Home Visiting Programme

Deirdre Coy and Orla Doyle

202020: The Socioeconomic Gradient of Cognitive Test Scores: Evidence from Two Cohorts of Irish Children

David (David Patrick) Madden

202019: Competition in Taxes and IPR

Ronald Davies, Yutao Han, Kate Hynes and Yong Wang

202018: Patent Boxes and the Success Rate of Applications

Ronald Davies, Dieter Kogler and Ryan Hynes

202017: Connecting the Scientific and Industrial Revolutions: The Role of Practical Mathematics

Morgan Kelly and Cormac Ó Gráda

202016: The Mechanics of the Industrial Revolution

Morgan Kelly, Joel Mokyr and Cormac Ó Gráda

202015: How Gender and Prior Disadvantage predict Performance in College

Judith Delaney and Paul Devereux

202014: EU Competition Law: An Unaffordable Luxury in Times of Crisis?

Patrick Massey and Moore McDowell

202013: Addressing Private Practice in Public Hospitals

Xidong Guo and Sarah Parlane

202012: COVID-19 and EU Climate Targets: Going Further with Less?

Tensay Meles, Lisa Ryan and Joe Wheatley

202011: Parental Unemployment During the Great Recession and Childhood Adiposity

Jonathan Briody

202010: Choosing Differently? College Application Behaviour and the Persistence of Educational Advantage

Judith Delaney and Paul Devereux

202009: The Impact of Quantitative Easing on Liquidity Creation

Supriya Kapoor and Oana Peia

202008: Can Early Intervention have a Sustained Effect on Human Capital?

Orla Doyle

202007: Financial Contagion and the Wealth Effect: An Experimental Study

Anna Bayona and Oana Peia

202006: Direct Standard Errors for Regressions with Spatially Autocorrelated Residuals

Morgan Kelly

202005: The Structure of Multinational Firms' International Activities

Ronald Davies and James Markusen

202004: Renewable Energy Technology Uptake: Public Preferences and Policy Design in Early Adoption

Sanghamitra Mukherjee, Séin Healy, Tensay Meles, Lisa Ryan, Robert Mooney, Lindsay Sharpe and Paul Hayes

202003: Professional Rugby on the Celtic Fringe

Vincent (Vincent Peter) Hogan and Patrick Massey

202002: Mining for Mood Effect in the Field

Margaret Samahita and Hakan Holm

202001: Economic History: ‘An Isthmus Joining Two Great Continents’?

Cormac Ó Gráda

201931: The Effect of High School Rank in English and Math on College Major Choice

Judith Delaney and Paul Devereux

201930: Do Business-Friendly Reforms Boost GDP?

Tamanna Adhikari and Karl Whelan

201929: Across the Sea to Ireland: Return Atlantic Migration before the First World War

Alan Fernihough

201928: Math Matters! The Importance of Mathematical and Verbal Skills for Degree Performance

Judith Delaney and Paul Devereux

201926: Did bank lending stifle innovation in Europe during the Great Recession?

Oana Peia and Davide Romelli

201924: Artisanal Skills, Watchmaking, and the Industrial Revolution: Prescot and Beyond

Neil Cummins and Cormac Ó Gráda

201923: Products or Markets: What Type of Experience Matters for Export Survival?

Martina Lawless and Zuzanna Studnicka

201922: BMI Mobility and Obesity Transitions Among Children in Ireland

David (David Patrick) Madden

201921: Pessimism and Overcommitment

Claes Ek and Margaret Samahita

201920: Optimal Contracts for Renewable Electricity

Sarah Parlane and Lisa Ryan

201919: Old Firms and New Export Flows: Does Experience Increase Survival?

Martina Lawless and Zuzanna Studnicka

201918: The Effect of the Great Recession on Health: A Longitudinal Study of Irish Mothers 2001-2011

Jonathan Briody, Orla Doyle and Cecily Kelleher

201917: The ESR at 50: A Review Article on Fiscal Policy Papers

David (David Patrick) Madden

201916: Fifty Years a-Growing: Economic History and Demography in the ESR

Cormac Ó Gráda

201915: The Base of Party Political Support in Ireland: An Update

David (David Patrick) Madden

201914: The Euro at 20: Successes, Problems, Progress and Threats

Karl Whelan

201913: The Standard Errors of Persistence

Morgan Kelly

201912: Automation, New Technology and Non-Homothetic Preferences

Clemens C. Struck and Adnan Velic

201911: OK Computer: The Creation and Integration of AI in Europe

Bernardo S. Buarque, Ronald Davies, Dieter Kogler and Ryan Hynes

201910: Correcting for Transitory Effects in RCTs: Application to the RAND Health Insurance Experiment

Kevin Devereux, Mona Balesh Abadi and Farah Omran

201909: Competing Gains From Trade

Clemens C. Struck and Adnan Velic

201908: Grandparents, Mothers, or Fathers? Why Children of Teen Mothers do Worse in Life

Anna Aizer, Paul Devereux and Kjell G Salvanes

201907: Brain Drain and Brain Gain in Italy and Ireland in the Age of Mass Migration

Matteo Gomellini and Cormac Ó Gráda

201906: Time-Series Momentum: A Monte-Carlo Approach

Enoch Cheng and Clemens C. Struck

201905: It’s not just for boys! Understanding Gender Differences in STEM

Judith Delaney and Paul Devereux

201904: Understanding Intergenerational Mobility: The Role of Nature versus Nurture in Wealth and Other Economic Outcomes and Behaviors

Sandra Black, Paul Devereux, Petter Lundborg and Kaveh Majlesi