School of Social Sciences and Philosophy: Recent submissions
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The political economy of food system transformation in the European Union
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An ambitious CAP is needed to underpin the green transition
(2023)This paper provides a critical appraisal of the main characteristics of EU agricultural policy as it now stands following agreement on the regulations for the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) in 2021 for the programming ... -
The role of environmental issues in European elections. Assessing whether European elections establish an electoral connection based on these issues
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Political Science, 2023)This thesis investigates whether European elections establish an electoral connection based on the environment, a relevant EU-policy issue, at three different stages: the electoral campaign, election day, MEPs' vote in the ... -
Essays in Development Economics: Poverty, Religion and Mental Health
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2023)This dissertation includes three standalone chapters, each focused on augmenting our knowledge of three issues in the literature on asset transfers, religion, and mental health. The first essay (Chapter 1) investigates ... -
Essays in Political Economics and Political Communication
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2023)This dissertation consists of three essays on political economics with a particular focus on the effect of political communication. First, it studies how politicians way of speaking reacts in the aftermath of a salient ... -
Essays in Family Economics and Gender
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2023)This dissertation consists of three essays on family economics and gender. It delves into the problems families face with an emphasis on women. The first essay looks at how parents with different preferences take joint ... -
The Structure of Forms in Plato's Theory of Forms
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Philosophy, 2023)The overall aim of this PhD dissertation is to consider and examine the relations between Forms in Plato?s theory of Forms. Undertaking this task does not require a full account of Plato?s theory of Forms, rather it requires ... -
The Exit Option: How ethnopolitical exclusion influences emigration desire from sub-Saharan Africa
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Political Science, 2023)To what extent and in what ways does politicized ethnicity drive migration desire in sub-Saharan Africa? This question matters because migration from Africa has received much attention in the media and by policy makers, ... -
Essays in applied microeconomics
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2023)The first essay studies the effects of access to assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) on fertility and labor market outcomes. Drawing on quasi-experimental variation in expected costs for ARTs and data from the German ... -
Promoting peace or inciting violence? Explaining how decentralisation systematically affects the propensity of regional ethnic conflict
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Political Science, 2023)This thesis investigates the varying effects of decentralisation on ethnic conflict. It seeks to offer a unified theory explaining why the outcomes of decentralisation reforms differ. More specifically it studies how these ... -
Fossil Fuel Interests in Environmental and Climate Policy: Evidence of Influence and Institutionalised Participation
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Political Science, 2023)Do fossil fuel interest groups and companies engage in systematic participation in institutions of state-society relations such as public consultations in pursuit of policy influence in the area of environment and climate? ... -
Essays in Macroeconomics
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2023)This dissertation is a collection of three essays in empirical macroeconomics. Chapter 1 examines the long-run effects of central bank independence on inflation. Applying a dynamic panel strategy to account for the ... -
Essays in Political Economics
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2023)This dissertation consists of three essays on political economics. First, it studies how changes in the electoral design affect politicians and voters alike. Second, it studies the impact of criminal organisations on both ... -
Hannah Arendt's Unwritten Theory of Political Judgment
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Philosophy, 2023)This project develops a new reading of Hannah Arendt’s interpretation of Immanuel Kant’s aesthetic reflective judgment. The aim of this project is to justify Arendt’s claim that she brings Kant’s unwritten political ... -
Worker well-being and quit intentions: is measuring job satisfaction enough?
(2023)The links between worker well-being and quit intentions have been well researched. However, the vast majority of extant studies use just one measure, job satisfaction, to proxy for worker well-being as a whole, thus ignoring ... -
A Match Made in Maastricht: Estimating The Treatment Effect of the Euro On Trade
(2023)Why do estimates of the European Monetary Union (EMU) effect on trade vary so greatly? Rose (2017) shows that the largest factor determining the size of EMU trade estimates is the choice of sample, with studies using only ... -
Essays on Applied Microeconomics: the Impacts of Internal Displacement
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2023)This dissertation consists of three essays at the intersection of applied microeco- nomics and development economics. It tackles questions on the consequences of internal displacement on intra-household and intra-community ... -
Essays in Development Economics
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2023)This thesis is a collection of three essays in Development Economics. In 2022, 685 million people globally lived in extreme poverty, the rate of decline in poverty is at a paltry rate of 2 percent per year (World bank, ... -
Essays in financial and behavioural economics
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2023)This thesis comprises three essays. The first two essays (Chapters 2 and 3) describe randomised controlled trials which experimentally test interventions to arm consumers with informational tools to navigate the promise ... -
A reliabilist-teleological account of Plato's theory of knowledge based on the Timaeus, the Republic and the Theaetetus
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Philosophy, 2023)Whether, in Plato's epistemology, the Forms can be grasped without using the inferior epistemic capacities, and whether the inferior epistemic capacities contribute to one's grasp of F-ness and the Form F - These are the ...
