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Professor Michael King has been invited to speak at the 69^th UN Commission on the Status of Women to share findings from his work on Malawi. The event titled "Women's Empowerment within Social Protection Programming" will take place at the Permanent Mission of Ireland to the UN in New York on Wednesday, 12^th March.

Professor Jenny Aker of Cornell University delivered the TIME Annual Lecture on 25^th November. She presented "The Mobile Phone Revolution in Africa" in the Swift Theatre, Arts Building.

Jenny Aker, Professor of Development Economics at Cornell University, will deliver a lecture on "The Mobile Phone Revolution in Africa: Successes, Failures and the Future" at the 2024 TIME Annual Lecture on November 26^th at 6.30pm in the Swift Theatre, Arts Building. Click to RSVP.

Professor Ronan Lyons writes about Nepal's ability to build homes at twice the rate of Ireland in a new column in The Currency. He suggests that Ireland could take a leaf out of Nepal's book and become literate in land values.

"Better energy cost information changes household property investment decisions: Evidence from a Nationwide experiment" is co-authoreed with James Carroll, Eleanor Denny and Ivan Petrov. It is the first paper to conduct a large controlled trial for residential properties covering a nationwide market