This paper demonstrates gender differences in risk aversion and ambiguity aversion. It
also contributes to a growing literature relating economic preference parameters to
psychological measures by asking whether variations ...
Merrouche, Ouarda(University College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2007-02-16)
The International Campaign to Ban Landmines production and use estimates that there are more than 80 billion landmines in the ground in more than 80 countries. Despite the scale of the problem and large investments by OECD ...
This paper is concerned with the relationship between class size and the student outcome – length of time in post-compulsory schooling. Research on this topic has been problematic partly because omitted unobservables, like ...
Low birth weight has considerable short and long-term consequences and leads to high costs to the individual and society even in a developed economy. Low birth weight is partially a consequence of choices made by the ...
This paper develops the method of local instrumental variables for models with multiple, unordered treatments when treatment choice is determined by a nonparametric version of the multinomial choice model. Responses to ...
This paper is an outcome of the research project Mapping the Irish State at UCD Geary
Institute, funded by a Thematic Research Grant from the Irish Research Council for
Humanities and Social Sciences (IRCHSS)