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201208: The influence of macroeconomic conditions and institutional quality on national levels of life satisfaction

Brendan M. Walsh

201207: The formal sector wage premium and firm size for self-employed workers

Olivier Bargain, Eliane El Badaoui, Prudence Kwenda, Eric Strobl and Frank Walsh

201206: ELA, promissory notes and all that: the fiscal costs of Anglo Irish Bank

Karl Whelan

201205: Methods for studying dominance and inequality in population health

David Madden

201204: All-pay contests with constraints

Ivan Pastine and Tuvana Pastine

201203: Improving the eurosystem for old and new members

Colm McCarthy

201202: Ireland’s European crisis: staying solvent in the Eurozone

Colm McCarthy

201201: A practical introduction to Stata

Mark McGovern

201128: Fetal origins, childhood development, and famine: a bibliography and literature review

Cormac Ó Gráda

201127: Well-being and economic conditions in Ireland

Brendan M. Walsh

201126: The mental health cost of corruption: evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

Robert Gillanders

201125: Still unequal at birth - birth weight, socioeconomic status and outcomes at age 9

Mark McGovern

201124: School tenure and student achievement

Wen Fan

201123: A race to the bottom in labour standards? An empirical investigation

Ronald Davies and Krishna Chaitanya Vadlamannati

201122: Simple logit and probit marginal effects in R

Alan Fernihough

201121: Optimal tariffs with FDI: the evidence

Bruce Blonigen and Matthew Cole

201120: How far away is an intangible? Services FDI and distance

Ronald Davies and Amélie Guillin

201119: Estimating the return to college in Britain using regression and propensity score matching

Wen Fan

201118: Late conversion: the impact of professionalism on European rugby union

Vincent Hogan, Patrick Massey and Shane Massey

201117: A Note on the Size Distribution of Irish Mortgages

Morgan Kelly

201116: The Effects of Foreign Aid in Sub-Saharan Africa

Robert Gillanders

201115: Economic Integration and the Optimal Corporate Tax Structure with Heterogeneous Firms

Christian Bauer, Ronald Davies and Andreas Haufler

201114: Labor Supply Elasticities in Europe and the US

Olivier Bargain, Kristian Orsini and Andreas Peichl

201113: Human Capital and the Quantity-Quality Trade-Off during the Demographic Transition: New Evidence from Ireland

Alan Fernihough

201112: Five Crises

Cormac Ó Gráda

201111: Earnings Returns to the British Education Expansion

Paul Devereux and Wen Fan

201110: The Preventive Check in Medieval and Pre-industrial England

Morgan Kelly and Cormac Ó Gráda

201109: Ireland’s Sovereign Debt Crisis

Karl Whelan

201108: Civic Returns to Education: Its Effect on Homophobia

Kevin Denny

201107: Optimal Commodity Taxation and Redistribution within Households

Olivier Bargain and Olivier Donni

201106: Corruption, Institutions and Regulation

Michael Breen and Robert Gillanders

201105: Distorted Trade Barriers

Matthew Cole

201104: Relative Concerns of Rural-to-Urban Migrants in China

Alpaslan Akay, Olivier Bargain and Klaus Zimmermann

201103: Great Leap into Famine

Cormac Ó Gráda

201102: Tax-Benefit Systems in Europe and the US: Between Equity and Efficiency

Olivier Bargain, Mathias Dolls, Dirk Neumann, Andreas Peichl and Sebastian Siegloch

201101: Flip Side of the Pollution Haven: Do Export Destinations Matter?

Svetlana Batrakova

201041: EU Economic Governance: Less Might Work Better Than More

Karl Whelan

201040: Open For Business? Institutions, Business Environment and Economic Development

Robert Gillanders and Karl Whelan

201039: Class Size Effects: Evidence Using a New Estimation Technique

Kevin Denny and Veruska Oppedisano

201038: The last major Irish bank failure: lessons for today?

Cormac Ó Gráda

201037: Malthusian dynamics in a diverging Europe: Northern Italy 1650-1881

Alan Fernihough

201036: Height and well-being amongst older Europeans

Kevin Denny

201035: Suicide in Ireland: the influence of alcohol and unemployment

Brendan M. Walsh and Dermot Walsh

201034: Political campaign spending limits

Ivan Pastine and Tuvana Pastine

201033: Tax-benefit revealed redistributive preferences over time: Ireland 1987-2005

Olivier Bargain and Claire Keane

201032: Back to the future - decomposition analysis of distributive policies using behavioural simulations

Olivier Bargain

201031: Female labor supply and divorce: new evidence from Ireland

Olivier Bargain and Claire Keane

201030: Distributional consequences of labor demand adjustments to a downturn: a model-based approach with application to Germany 2008-09

Olivier Bargain, Herwig Immervoll, Andreas Peichl and Sebastian Siegloch

201029: The socioeconomic gradient of obesity in Ireland

David Madden

201028: The minimum wage and hours per worker

Eric Strobl and Frank Walsh