Denny, Kevin(University College Dublin. School of EconomicsUniversity College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2005-03)
This paper investigates whether teenagers are educationally advantaged if their parents are educators, using PISA data for Great Britain and Ireland. It examines whether teachers’ children do better at tests of reading ...
Denny, Kevin(Institute for Fiscal Studies, 2003-09-11)
This paper uses two sets of cross-country micro datasets to analyse individuals’ participation in voluntary and community activities and organisations. Analysing countries in the International Adult Literacy Survey and ...
Denny, Kevin(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2003-07)
This paper uses two sets of cross-country micro datasets to analyse individuals’ participation in voluntary and community activities and organisations. Analysing countries in the International Adult Literacy Survey and ...
Denny, Kevin(University College Dublin. Institute for the Study of Social Change (Geary Institute), 2003-07-22)
This paper uses two sets of cross-country micro datasets to analyse individuals’ participation in voluntary and community activities and organisations. Analysing countries in the International Adult Literacy Survey and ...
Denny, Kevin; Harmon, Colm; O'Sullivan, Vincent(University College Dublin. School of EconomicsUniversity College Dublin. Institute for the Study of Social Change (Geary Institute), 2003-08)
In this paper a rich and innovative dataset, the International Adult Literacy Survey, is used to examine the impact of functional literacy on earnings. We show that the estimated return to formal education is sensitive to ...
In this paper a rich and innovative dataset, the International Adult Literacy Survey, is used to examine the impact of functional literacy on earnings. The IALS surveys 12 OECD countries and sub-regions via a consistent ...
Denny, Kevin(Blackwell Publishing on behalf of the Royal Statistical Society, 2002)
This paper analyses levels of low literacy across 12 countries by using the International Adult Literacy Survey. We go beyond existing work that only looks at the proportions below certain critical levels of literacy. Using ...
Denny, Kevin(Institute for Fiscal Studies, 2000-02-24)
This paper analyses levels of low literacy across twelve countries using the International Adult Literacy Survey. We go beyond existing work that only looks at the proportions below certain critical levels of literacy. ...
Denny, Kevin(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2000-04)
This paper analyses levels of low literacy across twelve countries using the International Adult Literacy Survey. We go beyond existing work that only looks at the proportions below certain critical levels of literacy. ...
Ó Gráda, Cormac(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2010-07)
This paper complements a much larger study of school
attendance in pre-famine Ireland by FitzGerald (2010).
It exploits some of the data generated by that study to analyze further some of the determinants of schooling
and ...