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School of Economics - Research Publications 2006/07

Below is the list of research publications for the School of Economics in the academic year 2006/07

Books

Book Chapters

Books Edited

Peer Reviewed Journals

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Books

Dr Olivier Bargain
Bargain, O., Polachek, S., (2007) Aspects of worker well-being, vol. 26 of the series Research in Labor Economics. North-Holland: Elsevier.
Bargain, O. (2006) Microsimulation in action: policy analysis in Europe using EUROMOD, vol. 25 of the series Research in Labor Economics. North-Holland: Elsevier.
Professor Cormac Ó Gráda
O'Grada, C. (2006) Jewish Ireland in the Age of Joyce: A Social Science History. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Professor David Madden
Nolan, B. (ed.), Gannon, B., Layte, R., McGregor, P., Madden, D., Nolan, A., O,Neill, C., Smith, S. (2007) 'Health Interventions and Risky Behaviour' In: The Provision and use of Health Services, Health Inequalities and Health and Social Gain. Dublin: Economic and Social Research Institute.
Mr Colm McCarthy
Fitz Gerald, J., McCarthy, C. and Morgenroth, E. (2006) 'Transport Infrastructure' In: FitzGerald, J. and Morgenroth, E. (eds). Ex-Ante Evaluation of the Investment Priorities for the National Development Plan 2007-2013. Dublin: Economic and Social Research Institute.
Fitz Gerald, J., McCarthy, C. and Morgenroth, E. (2006) 'Accompanying Measures' In: John FitzGerald and Edgar Morgenroth (eds). Ex. Ante Evaluation of the Investment Priorities for the National Development Plan 2007-2013. Dublin: Economic and Social Research Institute.
Dr Aisling Reynolds-Feighan
Reynolds-Feighan, A.J. (2007) 'The Long Run Distributional Effects of Industry and Carrier Changes in the US Air Transport Market' In: Lee, D. (eds). Advances in Airline Economics - Volume 2: The Economics of Airline Institutions, Operations and Marketing. Amsterdam: Elsevier Science.
Dr Ciara Whelan
Whelan, C., Mariuzzo, F. and Walsh, P.P. (2006) 'Merger Control in Differentiated Product Industries' In: Jay Pil Choi (eds). Recent Developments in Antitrust: Theory and Evidence. MIT Press.
Professor Cormac Ó Gráda
O'Grada, C. (2007) 'Ireland's Great Famine: an overview' In: O'Grada, C., (with Eric Vanhaute, University of Ghent and Richard Paping, University of Groningen) (eds). When the Potato Failed: Causes and Effects of the 'Last' European Subsistence Crisis. Brepols: CORN Publication Series - Turnhout.
O'Grada, C. (2007) '‘Crisis, what crisis? Prices, harvest shortfalls, and excess mortality in mid-nineteenth century France’' In: O'Grada, C., (with Eric Vanhaute, University of Ghent and Richard Paping, University of Groningen) (eds). When the Potato Failed: Causes and Effects of the 'Last' European Subsistence Crisis. Brepols: CORN Publication Series - Turnhout.
O'Grada, C. (2007) '‘The subsistence crisis of 1845-1850: a comparative perspective’' In: O'Grada, C. (with Eric Vanhaute, University of Ghent and Richard Paping, University of Groningen) (eds). When the Potato Failed: Causes and Effects of the 'Last' European Subsistence Crisis. Brepols: CORN Publication Series - Turnhout.
O'Grada, C. (2007) 'You take the high road and I'll take the low road: economic success and wellbeing in the longer run'' In: T. Hatton, Alan Taylor, and K. O'Rourke (eds). The New Comparative Economic History. MIT Press.

Professor Cormac Ó Gráda
Ó Gráda, C. (UCD), Vanhaute, E. (University of Ghent) and Paping, R. (University of Groningen) (Ed.). (2007) When the Potato Failed: Causes and Effects of the 'Last' European Subsistence Crisis. Belgium: Brepols.

Dr Olivier Bargain
Bargain, O. M., Beblo, D., Beninger, R., Blundell, R., Carrasco, M-C., Chiuri, F., Laisney, V., Lechene, N., Moreau, M., Myck, J., Ruiz-Castillo and Vermeulen, F. (2006) 'Collective models of labor supply with nonconvex budget sets and nonparticipation: a calibration approach'. Review of Economics of the Household, 4 :113-127.
Bargain, O. M., Beblo, D., Beninger, R., Blundell, R., Carrasco, M-C., Chiuri, F., Laisney, V., Lechene, N., Moreau, M., Myck, J., Ruiz-Castillo and Vermeule, F. (2006) 'Evaluating the move to a linear tax system in Germany and other European countries'. Review of Economics of the Household, 4 :159-180.
Bargain, O. M., Beblo, D., Beninger, R., Blundell, R., Carrasco, M-C., Chiuri, F., Laisney, V., Lechene, N., Moreau, M., Myck, J., Ruiz-Castillo and Vermeulen, F. (2006) 'Does the representation of household behavior matter for welfare analysis of tax-benefit policies? An introduction'. Review of Economics of the Household, 4 :96-112.
Bargain, O. M., Beblo, D., Beninger, R., Blundell, R., Carrasco, M-C. Chiuri, F., Laisney, V., Lechene, N., Moreau, M., Myck, J., Ruiz-Castillo and Vermeulen, F. (2006) 'The Working Families' Tax Credit and some European tax reforms in a collective setting'. Review of Economics of the Household, 4 :129-158.
Bargain, O. And N. Moreau (2006) 'Effets d'une réforme fiscale sur l'offre de travail des ménages dans un cadre collectif simulé'. Actualite Economique, 82 (1-2).
Bargain, O. and K. Orsini (2006) 'In-work policies in Europe: Killing two birds with one stone'. Labour Economics, 13 :667-697.
Professor James Bergin
Bergin, J. (2006) 'The Folk Theorem Revisited'. Economic Theory, 27 :321-332.
Bergin, J., Zhou, L. (2006) 'Monotonic Assignment Rules'. Mathematics of Operations Research, 31 (1):133-147.
Dr Kevin J M Denny
Denny, K., Doyle, O. (2007) 'Measuring the relationship between voter turnout and health in Ireland'. Irish Medical Journal, 100 (7):55-56.
Denny, K., O'Sullivan, V. (2007) 'The Economic Consequences of being Left-Handed: some sinister results'. Journal of Human Resources, XLII (2):353-374.
Denny, K., O'Sullivan, V. (2007) 'Can education compensate for low ability?'. Applied Economic Letters, 14 :657-660.
Denny, K., Doyle, O. (2007) 'Take up thy bed and vote: measuring the relationship between voting behaviour and health'. European Journal of Public Health .
Professor Paul Devereux
Devereux, P. (2007) 'Improved Errors-In-Variables Estimators for Grouped Data'. Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 25 (3):278-287.
Black, S.E., Devereux, P.J., Salvanes, K.G. (2007) 'From the cradle to the labor market? The effect of birth weight on adult outcomes'. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 122 (1):409-439.
Devereux, P.J. (2007) 'Small-sample bias in synthetic cohort models of labor supply'. Journal of Applied Econometrics, 22 (4):839-848.
Devereux, P.J. and Hart, R. (2006) 'Real Wage Cyclicality of Job Stayers, Within-Company Job Movers, and Between-Company Job Movers'. Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 60 (1):105-119.
Devereux, P.J. & Ackerberg, D.A. (2006) 'Comment on 'The case against JIVE''. Journal of Applied Econometrics, 21 (6):835-838.
Dr Lisa Farrell
Farrell, L. and Shields, M.A. (2007) 'Child Expenditure: The Role of Working Mothers, Lone Parents, Sibling Composition and Household Provision'. Canadian Journal of Economics, 40 (2).
Brown, S., Farrell, L, and Sessions, J.G. (2006) 'Employment Contract Matching: An Analysis of Dual Earner Couples and Working Households'. Small Business Economics, 26 :155-172.
Dr Kanika Kapur
Kapur, K., Rogowski, J. (2007) 'The Role of Health Insurance in Joint Retirement among Married Couples'. Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 60 (3).
Kapur, K., Marquis, S., Buntin, M., Escarce, J., Louis, T., and Yegian, J. (2007) 'The Role of Product Design in Consumers’ Choices in the Individual Health Insurance'. Health Services Research .
Kapur, K., Marquis, S., Buntin, M., Escarce, J., Yegian, J. (2006) 'The Duration of Individual Health Insurance: Is it More than Bridge Coverage?'. Inquiry, 42 (4).
Buntin, M.B., Damberg, C., Haviland, A., Kapur, K., Lurie, N., McDevitt, R. and Marquis, M.S. (2006) 'Consumer-directed heath care: Early evidence about effects on cost and quality'. HEALTH AFFAIRS, 25 (6):516-530.
Dr Dermot Leahy
Dewit, G. and Leahy, D. (2006) 'Investment timing under uncertainty in oligopoly: Symmetry or leadership?'. Journal of Economics and Business, 58 (1):1-19.
Professor David Madden
Madden, D. (2007) 'Doctors' Fees in Ireland Following the Change in Reimbursement: Did They Jump?'. Economic and Social Review, 38 (2):259-274.
Madden, D., (2006) 'Tobacco Taxes and Starting and Quitting Smoking: Does the Effect Differ by Education?'. Applied Economics .
Mr Colm McCarthy
Lawlor, J., McCarthy, C., and Scott, S. (2007) 'Investment in Water Infrastructure: Findings from an Economic Analysis of a National Programme'. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 50 (1):41-63.
Dr Aisling Reynolds-Feighan
Reynolds-Feighan, A.J. and McLay, P.C. (2006) 'Accessibility and Attractiveness of European Airports: A Simple Small Community Perspective'. Journal of Air Transport Management, 12 :313-323.
McLay, P.C. & Reynolds-Feighan, A.J. (2006) 'Competition between airport terminals: The issues facing Dublin Airport'. Transportation Research, Part A: 42 (2):181-203.
Dr Frank Walsh
Strobl, E. and Walsh, F. (2007) 'Estimating the Shirking Model With variable Effort'. Journal of Labour Economics, 14 (3):623-637.
Strobl, E; Walsh, F; (2007) 'Dealing with monopsony power: Employment subsidies vs. minimum wages'. ECONOMICS LETTERS, 94 (1):83-89.
Professor Karl Whelan
Whelan, K., (with Kieran McQuinn) (2007) 'Conditional Convergence and the Dynamics of the Capital-Output Ratio'. Journal of Economic Growth, 12 .
Whelan, K., (with Jeremy Rudd), (2007) 'Inflation Dynamics: A Critical Review of Recent Research'. Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 39 :155-170.
Whelan, K. (2007) 'Staggered Contracts and Inflation Persistence: Some General Results'. International Economic Review, 48 :75-109.
Whelan, K., (with Kieran McQuinn), (2007) 'Solow (1956) as a Model of Cross-Country Growth Dynamics'. Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 23 .
Whelan, K., (with Jeremy Rudd), (2006) 'Empirical Proxies for the Consumption-Wealth Ratio'. Review of Economic Dynamics, 9 :34-51.
Whelan, K., (with Michael Palumbo and Jeremy Rudd), (2006) 'On the Relationships Between Real Consumption, Income, and Wealth'. Journal of Business and Economics Statistics, 26 :1-11.
Whelan, K., (with Jeremy Rudd) (2006) 'Can Rational Expectations Sticky-Price Models Explain Inflation Dynamics?'. American Economic Review, 96 :303-320.
Professor Cormac Ó Gráda
O'Grada, C. (2007) 'Making famine history'. Journal of Economic Literature, XLV (1):5-38.
O'Grada, C. (with Tim Guinnane and Carolyn Moehling, Yale University). (2006) 'The fertility of the Irish in America in 1910', Explorations in Economic Hist'. Explorations in Economic History, 43 (3):465-485.
O'Grada, C. (2006) 'Dublin Jewish Demography a Century Ago'. Economic and Social Review, 37 (2):123-147.
Chevet, J.-M. and Ó Gráda, C. (2006) 'Grain prices and mortality: a note on 'La Michodiére's Law''. European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 13 (2):183-184.

Dr Olivier Bargain
Bargain, O. and Moreau, N. (2007) 'Does taxation affect intrahousehold distribution? A Simulation Approach' Research on Economic Inequality, 15 .
Bargain, O. (with K. Orsini), (2006) '“Beans for breakfast? How exportable is the British workfare model?”' Research in Labor Economics .