News Archive: Academic Year 2018 - 2019

Professor Andrea Guariso, with M Björkman (SSE), J Svensson (SU), and D Yanagizawa-Drott (University of Zurich), has published the paper titled "Reducing Child Mortality in the Last Mile: Experimental Evidence on Community Health Promoters in Uganda" in American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

Professor Tara Mitchell’s exceptional teaching efforts and achievements were recognised formally with a Provost’s Teaching Award. The awards are Trinity’s principal means of celebrating academic staff who have made an outstanding contribution in the pursuit of teaching excellence.

Professor Edward Glaeser will discuss the role that cities play in the world from the success of urban areas in the west to the rapid transformation of the developing world in urbanized areas. Public lecture taking place in the Joly Lecture Theatre, Hamilton Building, Trinity College Dublin.

Economist, Professor Eleanor Denny will lead the Irish participation in a large European Commission Horizon 2020 project on decentralised energy production and greater social participation in energy supply which has just been awarded €2.5 million.

Professor Nathan Nunn will provide an overview of a recent literature that suggests a new strategy for how we can help lift the World’s poorest out of poverty. Public lecture taking place in the Maxwell Theatre, Hamilton Building, Trinity College Dublin.

The Workshop in Development Economics, organized by TIME in collaboration with LSE and CEPR, and funded by Irish Aid, will take place at TCD on 4-5 September, 2019. Submissions for this conference are now open on any topic within the area of Development Economics. Deadline for submission: 20 May.

TIME in conjunction with Irish Aid and TCD, will host the 3rd Summer School in Impact Evaluation (26-29 August), which will provide training in quantitative and qualitative methods for impact evaluation. It will be followed by a workshop in Applied Evaluation Methods in Health. Apply by July 20.

Professor Leah Boustan explored issues regarding immigration to the United States, addressing: who migrants were, how well they integrated into the United States economy, and their assimilation into United States culture at a recent Public lecture hosted by the Department of Economics.

Vahagn Galstyan, Assistant Professor of Economics at Trinity, presented a paper with new estimates of Ireland’s foreign assets and liabilities to the Statistical & Social Inquiry Society of Ireland last week. His work accounts for the effect of multinationals on standard estimates.

Professor Andrea Guariso has published a new article titled "Armed Conflict and Schooling in Rwanda: Digging Deeper" (joint work with M. Verpoorten). The article empirically investigates how armed violence affected educational outcomes in Rwanda during the nineties.

The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-Pal) has released a policy briefcase based on the research carried out by Prof Andrea Guariso and coauthors in Uganda. The study investigates the impact of a new incentivised community health workers program.

Is trust in political institutions declining? How much does media bias affect electoral outcomes? And how can we re-establish trust where it has been lost? These are just some of the questions explored by economics, philosophy, political science and sociology academics at a recent public lecture.

Prof Newman was lead discussant at a research results meeting of the South Africa - Towards Inclusive Economic Development programme, speaking on the topic of job creation and inequality. SA-TIED looks at ways to support policy-making for inclusive growth and economic transformation in southern Africa.

Speakers included Carles Puigdemont, former Catalan president and Trinity academics Dr Marvin Suesse (Economics), Dr Michelle D’Arcy and Dr Emanuel Coman (Political Science). The event was co-hosted by the School of Social Sciences and Philosophy and Trinity Research in Social Sciences (TRiSS).

Professor Scanlon shows how the introduction of new goods into a standard macro model raises both the incentive to save and the degree of consumption risk. In turn, this helps to resolve the risk-free rate and equity premium puzzles.

Economist Sean Barrett was inaugurated as the new Pro-Chancellor at a ceremony in the Provost’s House recently. Barrett, a Fellow Emeritus of the college, was a member of Trinity’s Department of Economics from 1977 and a senator for the University of Dublin from 2011 to 2016.

Two Trinity graduates—Conor McGlynn and Conor O´Meara are among the 147 individuals that comprise the 2020 cohort of the Schwarzman Scholars, which is one of the world´s leading graduate fellowship programmes, located at Schwarzman College at Tsinghua University in Beijing.

The Student Economic Review (SER) recently co-hosted a debate with the College Historical Society (The Hist) on the motion This House would unite Ireland post-Brexit. The event was part of an SER tradition of annual debates between Trinity and either Oxford or Cambridge.

An innovative health programme providing financial incentives to health workers led to a 27% reduction in child mortality in rural Uganda. Professor Andrea Guariso summarizes his new research (with M Björkman Nyqvist, J Svensson, and D Yanagizawa-Drott) in an article published in "VoxDev".

Professor Andrea Guariso discusses how ethnicity still plays a major role in society and political life in Burundi and Rwanda in an opinion piece published in "The Conversation". The piece is based on his article with Bert Ingelaere and Marijke Verpoorten (University of Antwerp), recently published in Development and Change.

The Department of Economics, School of Social Sciences and Philosophy is seeking to appoint 1-3 Assistant Professors in Economics in the fields of Applied Microeconomics and Macroeconomics, to commence on 1st August 2019. For full details see http://jobs.tcd.ie.

The 2018 Provost´s PhD Awards in Economics has been awarded to Angelos Athanasopoulos. Angelos will undertake research in International macroeconomics and on the project "Gender biases in monetary policy", under the supervision of Davide Romelli, Assistant Professor in Economics.

How strongly can media affect public perceptions? In an article published on the Journal of Public Economics, Nicola Mastrorocco (TCD Economics) and Luigi Minale (UC3M) tackle this question and examine the role of media in affecting individual´s perceptions about crime.

Professor Chris Blattman, Ramalee E. Pearson Professor of Global Conflict Studies at The University of Chicago´s Pearson Institute and Harris Public Policy, will speak on "The reasons for Wars" at the TIME Annual Keynote Lecture, October 11th at 17:30 in the Maxwell Lecture theatre, Hamilton Building, Trinity College Dublin. Closing remarks: Mary McCarthy, Irish Aid.

The Conference in Development Economics, funded by Irish Aid, took place on the 21st and 22nd of September at the London School of Economics. The conference featured presentations on various topics in development economics, from scholars from leading universities and institutions across the globe.

Professor Andrea Guariso, with Bert Ingelaere (University of Antwerp) and Marijke Verpoorten (University of Antwerp), has published the paper titled "When Ethnicity Beats Gender: Quotas and Political Representation in Rwanda and Burundi" in Developement and Change.

Dr Kopecky is a macroeconomist with work studying population aging, entrepreneurship, and international economics. Current research is on the life cycle risk profiles of individuals, and their effects on entrepreneurship and the equity premium as populations age.

TIME, in conjunction with Irish Aid and TCD, hosted their second Summer School in Impact Evaluation in August 2018. The Summer School provided training in quantitative and qualitative methods for impact evaluation. TIME also hosted a workshop in applied evaluation methods in education.

The next intake of The Economics of the Property Market with Assistant Professor in Economics Ronan Lyons starts on Oct 1, 2018. The course is designed for professionals working in the Irish housing market, as well as interested members of the public.

Trinity economics graduates and penultimate/final year students are invited to mentoring events taking place from 25-27 Sept, 2018. It will be an excellent opportunity for current students to connect with alumni working in a range of sectors