This paper explores the economic implications of new policy initiatives that seek to introduce terminal competition at Dublin Airport, in the context of the recent regulatory history of the three busiest Irish airports. ...
Denny, Kevin; Doyle, Orla(UCD Geary InstituteUniversity College Dublin; School of Economics, 2005-04-06)
This paper uses semi-parametric econometric techniques to investigate the relationship between basic skills and earning in three post-communist countries: the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovenia using the IALS dataset. ...
Individuals experiencing poor health are less likely to vote at election time, despite being the ones most affected by health policies implemented by the successful party. This paper investigates the relationship between ...
Delaney, Liam(University College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2005)
This paper analyses the determinants of voting abstention and voting intention
utilising data from the Irish National Election Study (INES) and the Living in Ireland survey. We find a marked age effect (younger people ...
This paper uses longitudinal data from the National Cohort Development Study (NCDS) to investigate the determinants of voter turnout in the 1997 British General Election. It introduces measures of cognitive ability and ...
Individuals who vote in one election are also more likely to vote in the next. Modelling the causal relationship between consecutive voting decisions however is intrinsically difficult, as this positive association can ...
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 ...
This paper, via the analysis of stated preferences from a nationwide representative survey of 1,100 adults, examines the determinants of preferences
for overall government expenditure and estimates a Seemingly Unrelated ...