School of Social Sciences and Philosophy: Recent submissions
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Consolidated Foreign Wealth of Nations: Initial steps and novel estimates
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2023)This thesis is made of three essays in International Macroeconomics. The central question these essays focus on is how to assess the international exposure of countries. The conventional approach uses the residence of the ... -
Essays in Development Economics: Intrahousehold Decision Making in Developing Countries
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2023)Providing insights into mechanisms through which households manage resources, this thesis aims to add to the empirical evidence on strategic decision-making among spouses using experimental and survey data. While the ... -
Many Unions, One Estimate? Disaggregating the Currency Union Effect on Trade
(2023)A large literature estimates the impact of currency unions on trade. Often ignored in these estimates are the dramatic differences in the characteristics of countries adopting common currencies, hidden by aggregation ... -
Trade diversion and labor market adjustment: Vietnam and the U.S.-China trade war
(2023)This paper investigates the effects of the U.S.-China trade war on trade diversion and the labor market in a third country, Vietnam. We exploit variation in Vietnamese exports to the U.S. across industries and districts ... -
Nigerian Taxi Drivers in Dublin: The Preferred Narrative Versus the Lived Experience
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Sociology, 2023)The liberalisation of the Irish taxi industry in 2000 coincided with the Irish State becoming a place of net immigration for the first time in its history (Ruhs, 2005). Over the following decade, Dublin's taxi fleet increased ... -
Topics in Urban and Transport Economics
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2023)This dissertation consists of three essays at the intersection of urban and transport economics. While they do not use common data or methods, they all tackle fundamental issues concerning the effects of transport on ... -
Three Essays in Labor and Regional Economics
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2023)This dissertation consists of three chapters. Chapter 1 uses the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and granular data on Mexican municipalities to study the local effects of trade liberalization on college ... -
The Effect of Group Identity on Support for Political Violence: Evidence from Northern Ireland
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Political Science, 2023)Why do people support political violence in peaceful contemporary democracies? In recent years scholars have increasingly sought to understand what drives individuals to adopt radical attitudes in societies where there is ... -
The divorce referendum 2019
(2020)When Ireland removed the prohibition on divorce from its constitution in 1995 by way of a referendum, the result was achieved with a razor thin margin after a difficult campaign. The circumstances in which the 2019 referendum ... -
The evolving nature of the Irish policy space
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)This chapter uses the Irish element of the Comparative Candidate Survey (CCS) of Dáil candidates in the 2020 election to explore policy similarities and differences between Irish parties. Using previous CCS data, it also ... -
Spotlight on adolescent health and well-being. Findings from the 2017/2018 Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) survey in Europe and Canada. International report. Volume 1. Key findings
(WHO Regional Office for Europe, 2020)This report presents key findings from 227 441 young people aged 11, 13 and 15 years in 45 countries/regions who participated in the 2017/2018 Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) survey. The findings ... -
Essays in Macroeconomics: An Analysis of the South African Financial System
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2023)This thesis consists of three empirical essays analyzing the financial systems in South Africa. Chapter 1 constructs a financial conditions index (FCI) for South Africa, over the period January 2000 to April 2017, that can ... -
Interest group access to policymaking in Ireland
(2023)There are more than 2,000 interest groups in Ireland that play a key role in policy development. This paper explores which of these groups have access to Irish policymaking across various political arenas. It does so by ... -
Are Irish voters biased against female candidates? Evidence from the 2020 general election
(2021)Ireland is the first country in the world to apply a legislative gender quota under an STV electoral system. Since 2016, the quota has required parties to ensure that at least thirty percent of their candidates running in ... -
'An unfinished democracy': gender and political representation in the Republic of Ireland
(2022)Ireland’s Decade of Centenaries, beginning in 2012, has seen the commemoration of a period of significant social and political transformation. For scholars of gender and politics, it also provides the opportunity to take ... -
Who wants women to run? an investigation of gender differences in patterns of support among Irish local election candidates
(2022)Interventions aimed at increasing women’s numeric representation in politics tend to solve the problem by tackling a lack of demand among gatekeepers. However, even where there is an increase in demand, it is still important ... -
Growing older and growing apart? Population age structure and trade
(2023)Purpose This paper explores the empirical relationship between population age structure and bilateral trade. Design/methodology/approach The author includes age structure in both log and Poisson pseudo-maximum ... -
Berkeley's Gland Tour into Speculative Fiction Part 2: Margaret Cavendish and Berkeley's Attitudes Towards Women
(2023)In Part 1, we explored how Berkeley drew from Homeric literature and used literary techniques such as satire to challenge his “freethinking” philosophical opponents in “The Pineal Gland” story published in The Guardian in ... -
Berkeley's Gland Tour into Speculative Fiction Part 1: Homer, Descartes and Pope
(2023)Berkeley is best known for his immaterialism and the texts that extol it—the Principles of Human Knowledge and Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous. He made his case by treatise, then by dialogue, and this tendency ... -
Making homeworking work: preferences and experiences of homeworkers during COVID-19
(2020)The COVID-19 pandemic has forced a large section of the global labour force who were working in centralised locations to suddenly switch to homeworking. This report uses primary longitudinal data from two surveys of 808 ...
