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200909: Very simple marginal effects in some discrete choice models

Kevin Denny

200908: The old poor law: resource constraints and demographic regimes

Morgan Kelly and Cormac Ó Gráda

200907: The distributional effects of tax-benefit policies under New Labour: a Shapley decomposition

Olivier Bargain

200906: Caught in the trap? The disincentive effect of social assistance

Olivier Bargain and Karina Doorley

200905: The informal sector wage gap: new evidence using quantile estimations on panel data

Olivier Bargain and Prudence Kwenda

200904: Tax competition in an expanding European Union

Ronald Davies and Johannes Voget

200903: Is employer-based health insurance a barrier to entrepreneurship?

Robert Fairlie, Kanika Kapur and Susan M. Gates

200902: Do patients bypass rural hospitals? Determinants of inpatient hospital choice in rural California

José J. Escarce and Kanika Kapur

200901: Exploring long memory and nonlinearity in Irish real exchange Rates using tests based on semiparametric estimation

Derek Bond, Michael J. Harrison and Edward O'Brien

200823: Business Networks and Inward FDI Policy

Fergal McCann

200822: How the poor (and not-so-poor) saved: savings banks in mid-Nineteenth Century Ireland and America

Cormac Ó Gráda

200821: Where do firms export, how much, and why?

Martina Lawless and Karl Whelan

200820: Optimally combining censored and uncensored datasets

Paul Devereux and Gautam Tripathi

200819: Psychological and biological foundations of time preference: evidence from a day reconstruction study with biological tracking

Liam Delaney, Michael Daly and Colm Harmon

200818: The Irish economy half a Century ago

Cormac Ó Gráda

200817: Improved Jive estimators for overidentified linear models with and without heteroskedasticity

Paul Devereux and Daniel Ackerberg

200816: Optimal taxation, social contract and the four worlds of welfare capitalism

Olivier Bargain and Amedeo Spadaro

200815: Health and income poverty in Ireland, 2003-2006

David Madden

200814: Handedness and depression: evidence from a large population survey

Kevin Denny

200813: Ordinal and cardinal measures of health inequality: an empirical comparison

David Madden

200812: Éirvana

Cormac Ó Gráda

200811: The determinants of self-rated health in the Republic of Ireland: further evidence and future directions

Liam Delaney, Colm Harmon, Cecily Kelleher and Caroline Kenny

200810: Event-related potentials reveal differential brain regions implicated in discounting in two tasks

Liam Delaney, Kevin Denny, Caroline Rawdon, Wen Zhang and Richard A.P. Roche

200809: Why do some Irish drink so much?

Liam Delaney, Arie Kapteyn and James Smith

200808: Validating the use of vignettes for subjective threshold scales

Liam Delaney, Colm Harmon, Arie Kapteyn, Arthur van Soest and James Smith

200807: Controlling the cost of controlling the climate: the Irish government’s climate change strategy

Colm McCarthy and Sue Scott

200806: “A knavish people... so dextrous in bargaining that it is impossible for Christians to expect any advantage in their dealings with them”: London Jewry and the stockmarket during the South Sea Bubble

Ann Carlos, Karen Maguire and Larry Neal

200805: Joint dominance and tacit collusion: An analysis of the irish vodafone/O2 case and the implications for competition and regulatory policy

Patrick Massey and Moore McDowell

200804: The early history of Irish savings banks

Cormac Ó Gráda

200803: Gender differences in mental well-being: a decomposition analysis

David Madden

200802: Economic status, religion, and demography in an Ulster town a century ago

Cormac Ó Gráda

200801: Nonlinearity as an explanation of the forward exchange rate anomaly

Derek Bond, Niall Hession, Michael J. Harrison and Edward O'Brien

200722: Federal Reserve Information during the great moderation

Antonello D'Agostino and Karl Whelan

200721: Famine demography

Cormac Ó Gráda

200720: Famines and markets

Cormac Ó Gráda

200719: The ripple that drowns? Twentieth-century famines in China and India as economic history

Cormac Ó Gráda

200718: Modelling Ireland’s exchange rates: from EMS to EMU

Derek Bond, Michael J. Harrison and Edward O'Brien

200717: Exploring nonlinearity with random field regression

Derek Bond, Michael J. Harrison and Edward O'Brien

200716: A note on trade costs and distance

Martina Lawless and Karl Whelan

200715: Big and tall parents do not have more sons

Kevin Denny

200714: The ambiguous effect of minimum wages on workers and total hours

Eric Strobl and Frank Walsh

200713: Analysing the effects of tax-benefit reforms on income distribution: a decomposition approach

Olivier Bargain and Tim Callan

200712: How tight are safety-nets in Nordic countries?: evidence from Finnish register data

Olivier Bargain, Herwig Immervoll and Heikki Viitamäki

200711: On modeling household labor supply with taxation

Olivier Bargain

200710: An analysis of mental stress in Ireland, 1994-2000

David Madden

200709: Health interventions and risky behaviour

David Madden

200708: Yardsticks for workhouses during the Great Famine

Cormac Ó Gráda

200707: Owner-occupied housing costs and bias in the Irish Consumer Price Index

Colm McCarthy

200706: Optimal IPO design with informed trading

Fabrice Rousseau and Sarah Parlane

200705: Geography, European colonization, and past population dynamics in Africa

Luis Vaz Silva