Professor Paul Devereux, BA & MA, Economics; PhD, Economics
Paul Devereux is Professor of Economics and a Geary Research Fellow. His research interests include labour economics and applied econometrics. Recently he has researched the impact of family background on life outcomes with emphasis on the roles played by parental education, family size, birth order, birth weight, and school starting age on teenage fertility, educational attainment, and adult earnings.
Professor Paul Devereux
Professor Devereux joined UCD in July 2005 from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). He leads the Graduate Programme for the Quantitative Social Sciences, a joint undertaking between the Geary Institute at UCD, the Institute for International Integration Studies at TCD and the universities’ economics and political science departments. Professor Devereux’s is one of a number of programmes funded by The Irish Research Council for the Humanities & Social Sciences (IRCHSS) as part of the Graduate Research Education Programme, which aims to improve the calibre of doctoral and postdoctoral research. He also continues to receive funding from the US National Science Foundation for ongoing research work in the labour economics sphere, together with US and Norwegian research colleagues.
Professor Devereux teaches undergraduate courses in Advanced Microeconomics and Economics of Human Behaviour and a course in Labour Economics on the Masters programme. He also co-ordinates UCD’s PhD programme in Economics.
