economics, psychology, policy

Malthusian Dynamics in a Diverging Europe: Northern Italy, 1650–1881 Demography DOI 10.1007/s13524-012-0141-9 Alan Fernihough Abstract Rec...

Guinnane, Timothy W. 2011. "The Historical Fertility Transition: A Guide for Economists." Journal of Economic Literature, 49(3): ...

The UCD School of Economics has started a periodic research bulletin, edited by me. The first edition is here . I hope you enjoy it. The mai...

As if we needed any reminding of it in this climate, economics is often known as the “dismal science”. Malthus is largely to blame for this ...

A belated thanks to Michael Breen for pointing out a recent article on VoxEU.org about predicting unemployment using Google Trends . The art...

For those interested in history, this may be useful: " Irish History Online is an authoritative guide (in progress) to what has been w...

The flaws of using body mass index as a measure for overall health status are apparent. It is a 19th century technique which ignores the dis...

Some of the recent trouble in the Irish banking system might have been avoided if the warnings of one of Ireland's great economists had ...