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The Research Affiliate scheme is aimed at strengthening links with key researchers who are engaged in active and ongoing collaboration with ESRI researchers. Research Affiliate status is conferred for 3 years, and is renewable for an unlimited number of times as long as the basic condition (active and ongoing collaboration) is still satisfied. Olivier BargainPrior to joining University College Dublin in October 2006, Olivier Bargain was a Research Associate at IZA since September 2004. He received his Ph.D. from the Paris School of Economics (former DELTA). His research covers subjects in public, labor and development economics, with a particular interest in household modeling, labor supply and tax-benefit policies. Olivier has published in the Journal of Population Economics, the Journal of Economic Inequality, the Review of Income and Wealth, Labour Economics and the Review of Economics of the Household. He has been co-editor of the book series Research in Labor Economics.
Colm McCarthyColm McCarthy is a graduate of University College Dublin and University of Essex. He worked at the Central Bank, the ESRI and with DKM Economic Consultants. Since 2005 he has been a lecturer in economics at University College Dublin. He chaired the group which produced the Report of the Special Group on Public Service Numbers and Expenditure Programmes, known as "An Bord Snip Nua". Home page and publications. Mirko MoroMirko Moro is a research fellow at the Division of Economics, University of Stirling , UK . He received his PhD from the University College Dublin, his MSc from the University of York, UK and he graduated at the University of Milan, Italy. His background includes an experience as junior researcher and consultant at Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, Italy , and as research assistant at the Stockholm Environment Institute (York Centre, UK ). His research interests cover environmental economics and applied economics with particular interest in the relationship among well-being and environment, economic valuation of public goods and green accounting.
Irene MoscaIrene Mosca joined TILDA (The Irish Longitudinal Study of Ageing)in July 2010 as a research fellow in Economics. She received her Master and Doctoral Degrees in Economics from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK. Her main research areas are population and labour economics and she wrote her PhD dissertation on the impact of population ageing on the Italian labour market. She is now assessing the economics domain within TILDA. Among the topics being investigated are labour market issues including labour force participation; employment situation and job history; planning for retirement and life long learning; sources of incomes; earnings; pensions and asset holdings; intergenerational transfers; and health care utilisation.
Peter NijkampPeter Nijkamp is professor in regional and urban economics and in economic geography at the VU University, Amsterdam. His main research interests cover quantitative plan evaluation, regional and urban modelling, multicriteria analysis, transport systems analysis, mathematical systems modelling, technological innovation, entrepreneurship, environmental and resource management and sustainable development. In the past years he has focussed on new quantitative methods for policy analysis and on spatial-behavioural analysis of economic agents. He is past president of the Netherlands Research Council (NWO). In 1996, he was awarded the most prestigious scientific prize in the Netherlands, the Spinoza award.
Vincent O'SullivanVincent O’ Sullivan is an Economics Research Fellow at TILDA. His research interests are in empirical micro-economics. He has particular interest in micro-econometrics and the use of quasi-experimental methods in estimating causal effects. Vincent studied for his PhD in Economics at the University of Warwick. His thesis examined the causal relationship between parental education and child outcomes as well as policy interventions targeted at lower socio-economic groups. Prior to his doctoral studies he completed an MSc in Economics at University College London and a BSc in Economics & Finance at University College Dublin. He has worked as a Research Assistant at the Geary Institute at UCD and has taught economics and econometrics at UCD and the University of Warwick.
Sue ScottSue Scott retired from the ESRI in October 2009. Her work has concentrated on environmental issues including pricing, taxation, demand projections, efficiency, investment and distributional issues, applied to policy on climate, energy, water and waste services, agriculture, forestry and transport. While head of the ESRI's Environment Policy Research Centre her group laid research foundations for many environmental issues in Ireland today. Justin van de VenJustin van de Ven began work at the National Institute of Economic and Social Research in 2002, and has been a Research Fellow since 2005. He came to the NIESR from the D. Phil. (Economics) programme at the University of Oxford . His Doctoral thesis, entitled Redistribution During the Working Lifetime, is concerned with measurement issues associated with inequality and tax progressivity. His research interests include the behavioural and redistributive effects of fiscal policy, pension policy and sustainability, and decision making in the context of uncertainty. Dr. van de Ven has published a number of articles, the most recent of which appear in the Economic Journal, the Bulletin of Economic Research, and Fiscal Studies. van de Ven is technically proficient in a wide range of computing applications, including Gauss, Fortran, Matlab, Excel, SPSS, and Stata.
Brendan WhelanBrendan Whelan was Director of the ESRI from 1996 to 2006, having previously been head of the survey unit at the Institute. He holds first class honours B.A. and M.A. degrees in economics from University College Dublin and obtained a master's degree in statistics from the London School of Economics in 1972. He has taught on a variety of courses at under-graduate and graduate level in Ireland and on international training. From 2007 until his retirement in 2009 he was research director of the TILDA project. Christopher T WhelanChristopher T. Whelan joined the School of Sociology in UCD in April 2009 and became Head of School on 1 September 2009. He was formerly a Research Professor at the ESRI.. He acted as Chair of the Standing Committee for the Social Sciences of the European Science Foundation from 2002 to 2006 and of the Governing Council of the EU Economic Change, Quality of Life and Social Cohesion (EQUALSOC) Network of Excellence from 2005-2009. From 1 January 2010 he will act as Chair of the European Consortium of Sociological Research. His research interests include the causes and consequences of poverty and inequality, quality of life and social mobility and inequality of opportunity. He has published on these topics in leading international academic journals and has contributed as author and editor to a number of volumes dealing with economic and social change in Ireland . He is a Member of the Royal Irish Academy , associate editor of the European Sociological Review and a member of the editorial board of Longitudinal and Life Course Studies. Email Christopher.Whelan@ucd.ie
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