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(University College Dublin; School of EconomicsUCD Geary Institute, 2007-08)The non take-up of social assistance benefits due to claim costs may seriously limit the anti-poverty effect of these programs. Yet, available evidence is fragmented and mostly relies on interview-based data, potentially ...
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(University College Dublin; School of Economics, 2007-08)
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(University College Dublin; School of Economics, 2007-06)The treatment of owner-occupied housing costs is a recurring problem in the construction of consumer price indices, and there are competing methodologies. In the most widely-used Irish index, the Payments Approach, which ...
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(University College Dubin; School of Economics, 2007-08)The General Health Questionnair(GHQ) is frequently used as a measure of mental well-being with those people with values below a certain threshold regarded as suffering from mental stress. Comparison of mental stress levels ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2012-04)One of the most consistent findings in studies of electoral behaviour is that individuals with higher education have a greater propensity to vote. The nature of this relationship is much debated, with US studies generally ...
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(University College Dublin; School of Economics, 2007-05)We characterize optimal IPO design in the presence of distinct adverse selection problems: one affecting the IPO stage and one arising in the after-market. Allocating shares to an investor with superior information in the ...
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(University College Dublin; School of Economics, 2007-03)There is a large empirical literature on policy measures targeted at children but surprisingly very little theoretical foundation to ground the debate on the optimality of the different instruments. In the present paper, ...
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(Elsevier, 2007)We analyse how progressive taxation and education subsidies affect schooling decisions when the returns to education are stochastic. We use the theory of real options to solve the problem of education choice in a dynamic ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2011-11)While much empirical work concerns job tenure, this paper introduces the concept of school tenure -- the length of time one student has been in a given school. I examine whether and how school tenure impacts students’ ...
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(University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies, 2006)This paper examines how the two parts of Ireland were affected by the partition of the country in 1922. It examines the post-partition evolution of living standards north and south, and patterns of trade, migration, and ...