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Childcare, Labor Supply, and Business Development: Experimental Evidence from Uganda
(2025)We randomly offered a childcare subsidy, an equivalent cash grant, or both to mothers of three-to-five-year-old children. The childcare subsidy substantially increased the labor supply and earnings of single mothers, ... -
Comparative ministerial turnover in Canada : 1867-2000
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2007)This dissertation presents a model of ministerial turnover in the Canadian federal cabinet for the period 1867 until 2000. The dissertation begins with a review of the existing literature of ministerial and legislator ... -
Explanation, justification, and egalitarianism
(Springer, 2021)This paper argues that the philosophy of explanation can help inform core debates in value theory. Specifically, it argues that there is a consistent parallelism between the properties of explanation and the properties ... -
Social Anarchism and the Rejection of Moral Tyranny
(Cambridge University Press, 2023)This book aims to provide a philosophical defense of egalitarian anarchism, more popularly known as social anarchism. It is certainly not the first book to attempt to defend this position; numerous egalitarian anarchists ... -
Luck egalitarianism without moral tyranny
(Springer, 2022)Luck egalitarians contend that, while each person starts out with a claim to an equal quantity of advantage, she can forfeit this claim by making certain choices. The appeal of luck egalitarianism is that it seems to ... -
The Insistence of Blackness and the Persistence of Antiblackness in Ireland
(2025)This paper positions Ireland as a critical site for examining the insistence of blackness and an antiblackness created and sustained through Irish ethnonationalist imaginaries and exclusionary processes. Drawing on connected ... -
Strategy Guidance Note on Lobbying Registers
(United Nations, 2024)The United Nations Committee of Experts on Public Administration (CEPA) has developed a set of principles of effective governance for sustainable development. The essential purpose of these voluntary principles is to ... -
Conflicts of Rights
(Palgrave, 2025)It is often assumed that conflicts of rights are both common and inescapable. The main thesis of this chapter is that this assumption is questionable. First, I will define conflicts of rights and contrast the definition I ... -
Gender differences in parental mental health: A life course approach
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Sociology, 2025)Mental health differences between men and women are well documented, but the timing, causes, and mechanisms driving these disparities across the life course remain insufficiently understood. The transition to parenthood ... -
Black Unsettlement. Embodied Blackness and Black Studies in the Irish Context
(2024)Reflecting the call for diverse opinions in knowledge production, this article is a personal perspective on the positioning of Black Studies in Ireland. Black Studies as praxi-theory foregrounds the inseparability of ... -
Collective Victimhood Narratives in Legislative Speeches from the United States and Northern Ireland
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Political Science, 2025)In this thesis, I examine the use of victimhood narratives by legislators in the United States Congress and the Northern Ireland Assembly. Collective victimhood is a form of highly emotive and moral rhetoric which depicts ... -
Beyond welcoming the strangers : integration policies and practices in Protestant Churches in Ireland and Italy
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Sociology, 2015)This thesis focuses on the integration approaches and strategies developed by Protestant Churches in Ireland and Italy following the arrival of an increasing number of migrants within their congregations. Ireland and Italy ... -
Essays in Macroeconomics and Wealth Inequality
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2025)This dissertation consists of three essays studying the dynamics of wealth inequality as it relates to different macroeconomic developments. In the three essays, I employ a range of different methods used in macroeconomics, ... -
Studies on the social and economic patterning of health behaviours in childhood and adolescence.
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Sociology, Department of Sociology, School of Social Sciences and Philosophy, 2025)The social patterning of harmful health behaviours (HHBs) is a major determinant of the social gradient in non-communicable diseases, and health generally. For this reason, more research is needed to understand why HHBs ... -
Redistricting and Representation: The Paradox of Minority Power
(2024)We present a model that integrates electoral competition of majority-minority redistricting with legislative redistribution to optimize minority representation. Analyzing voter allocation’s impact, we find that minorities ... -
Human rights and equality
(2025)Human rights are often thought to express an egalitarian idea. This chapter argues that the connection between human rights and equality is more tenuous than it first seems and a robust egalitarianism is neither the input ... -
How do Parental Resources affect Child-wellbeing? Evidence from birth cohort studies
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Sociology, 2025)This thesis examines the complex relationship between parental resources and child well-being, using high-quality longitudinal data from large-scale birth cohort studies in Ireland, Australia, and the United Kingdom. It ... -
Essays in Behavioral and Financial Economics
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2025)This thesis consists of three essays on behavioral and financial economics. Each chapter provides insights into how consumers interact with various financial products, and offers policy recommendations related to consumer ... -
The Effect of Earnings-Related Benefits on Financial Work Incentives
(2024)In most European Union countries, there is a link between the level of payment provided to those who have lost their job and the level of earnings in that job, at least for an initial period. While this provides valuable ... -
I'm A Loser, Baby: An Analysis of Party Responsiveness to Vote Loss
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Political Science, 2025)Understanding how parties change is fundamental to understanding their role in representative democracy, and the alternatives that are available to voters. In particular, understanding how they change in response to election ...
