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Age and health care services utilisation in the UK : an empirical analysis using microdata

Durkan, Joe ; Hughes, Jenny ; Harmon, Colm (University College Dublin. Centre for Health Economics, 1995)
Behavioural economics and drinking behaviour : preliminary results from an Irish college study

Delaney, Liam ; Harmon, Colm ; Wall, Patrick G. (University College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2007-01-31)

This paper examines the results of single-equation regression models of the determinants of alcohol consumption patterns among college students modelling a rich variety of covariates including gender, family and peer ...
Behavioural economics and Irish drinking : evidence from a college study

Delaney, Liam ; Harmon, Colm ; Wall, Patrick G. (Blackwell, 2008-01)

This article examines the results of single-equation regression models of the determinants of alcohol consumption patterns among college students modeling a rich variety of covariates including gender, family and peer ...
Cognitive skills, educational attainment and earnings : evidence from the international adult literacy survey

Denny, Kevin ; Harmon, Colm ; McMahon, Dorren ; Redmond, Sandra (University College Dublin; School of Economics, 2000)
Cross country evidence on the returns to education : patterns and explanations

Denny, Kevin ; Lydon, Reamonn ; Harmon, Colm (Centre for Economic Policy Research, 2002-02)

This Paper examines cross-country variations in the return to schooling for men and women and considers some of the stylised facts that have emerged from the extensive international literature on private returns to schooling. ...
Decomposing gender differences in college student earnings expectations

Delaney, Liam ; Harmon, Colm ; Remond, Cathy (University College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2010-09)

Despite the increasing coverage and prevalence of equality legislation and the general alignment of key determining characteristics such as educational attainment, gender differentials continue to persist in labour market ...
The determinants of self-rated health in the Republic of Ireland : further evidence and future directions

Delaney, Liam ; Harmon, Colm ; Kelleher, Cecily ; Kenny, Caroline (University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2008-04)

This paper examines the determinants of self-rated health in the Republic of Ireland using data from the 2001 Quarterly National Household Survey Health Module and the 2005 ESRI Time Usage Survey. Results indicate that ...
The determinants of self-rated health in the Republic of Ireland : further evidence and future directions

Delaney, Liam ; Harmon, Colm ; Kelleher, Cecily ; Kenny, Caroline (University College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2007-12-10)

This paper examines the determinants of self-rated health in the Republic of Ireland using data from the 2001 Quarterly National Household Survey Health Module and the 2005 ESRI Time Usage Survey. Results indicate that ...
Dispersion in the economic return to schooling

Harmon, Colm ; Walker, Ian ; Hogan, Vincent (Vincent Peter) (Elsevier Science, 2003)

We extend the standard human capital earnings function to include dispersion in the return to schooling by treating the return as a random coefficient (RC). If the rapid expansion in participation in higher education has ...
Dispersion in the economic return to schooling

Harmon, Colm ; Hogan, Vincent (Vincent Peter) ; Walker, Ian (University College Dublin. Institute for the Study of Social Change (Geary Institute), 2002-10-18)

We extend the standard human capital earnings function to include dispersion in the return to schooling by treating the return as a random coefficient. If the rapid expansion in participation in higher education has been ...
Dispersion in the economic return to schooling

Harmon, Colm ; Hogan, Vincent (Vincent Peter) ; Walker, Ian (University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2001-08)

In this paper we extend the standard human capital earnings function to include dispersion in the rate of return to schooling by treating the return as a random coefficient. One motivation is that if the increase in supply ...
The distribution of discrimination in immigrant earnings : evidence from Britain 1974-1993

Denny, Kevin ; Harmon, Colm ; Roche, Maurice (Institute for Fiscal Studies, 1997-08-21)

This paper uses the General Household Survey data for the UK to study earnings discrimination between natives and migrants. The key result is that the main source of discrimination is ethnicity rather than migrant status ...
Does education raise productivity, or just reflect it?

Harmon, Colm ; Chevalier, Arnaud ; Walker, Ian ; Zhu, Yu (Blackwell, 2004-11)

Education has an important effect on wages but it not clear whether this is because education raises productivity or because education is simply a signal of ability. We implement a number of existing tests for discriminating ...
Does education raise productivity, or just reflect it?

Chevalier, Arnaud ; Harmon, Colm ; Walker, Ian ; Zhu, Yu (University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2003-01)

It is clear that education has an important effect on wages paid in the labour market However it not clear whether this is due to the role that education plays in raising the productivity of workers (the human capital ...
Does education raise productivity, or just reflect it?

Chevalier, Arnaud ; Harmon, Colm ; Walker, Ian ; Zhu, Yu (University College Dublin. Institute for the Study of Social Change (Geary Institute), 2002-12-23)

It is clear that education has an important effect on wages paid in the labour market However it not clear whether this is due to the role that education plays in raising the productivity of workers (the human capital ...
A dynamic model of demand for private health insurance in Ireland

Harmon, Colm ; Finn, Claire (Institute for the Study of Labor, 2006-11)

The Irish health care system offers a tax financed, universal entitlement to public care at a nominal user fee, nonetheless 50% of the Irish population purchase private health insurance. This paper empirically models the ...
A dynamic model of demand for private health insurance in Ireland

Finn, Claire ; Harmon, Colm (University College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2006-11-23)

The Irish health care system offers a tax financed, universal entitlement to public care at a nominal user fee, nonetheless 50% of the Irish population purchase private health insurance. This paper empirically models the ...
Early childhood intervention : rationale, timing, and efficacy

Doyle, Orla ; Tremblay, Richard E. ; Harmon, Colm ; Heckman, James J. (University College Dublin, Geary Institute, 2007-01)

This paper provides a brief review of the economic rationale for investing in early childhood. It discusses the optimal timing of intervention, with reference to recent work in developmental neuroscience, and asks how ...
An econometric analysis of burglary in Ireland

Denny, Kevin ; Harmon, Colm ; Lydon, Reamonn (University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2004-05)

This paper outlines an econometric model of the level of burglary in Ireland between 1952 and 1998. We explain the evolution of the trend in Burglary in terms of demographic factors: in this case the share of young males ...
An econometric analysis of burglary in Ireland

Denny, Kevin ; Lydon, Reamonn ; Harmon, Colm (University College Dublin; Institute for the Study of Social Change (Geary Institute), 2004)

This paper outlines an econometric model of the level of burglary in Ireland between 1952 and 1998. We explain the evolution of the trend in Burglary in terms of demographic factors: in this case the share of young males ...