economics, psychology, policy

Modern Medicine and the Twentieth Century Decline in Mortality: Evidence on the Impact of Sulfa Drugs Seema Jayachandran, Adriana Lleras-M...

One of the admirable things about Glaeser's book is its historical scope. One image from the book (a slightly different online version o...

The publications page of this Institute is well-worth checking out every few months as they are producing some very interesting papers and ...

Doing the rounds on the blogworld - quite brilliant!

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 ...

Given the falls in income that people in Ireland are experiencing & will continue to experience one might wonder is there upside? Well i...

The issue of incentives for registering births and deaths, in general, is a tricky issue for research on historical health conditions. This ...

The health sector in Ireland has experienced a fair amount of industrial strife in recent years with nurses in particular taking industrial ...