Maynooth University Department of Economics

Selected Recent Publications:

Please find below a list of recent published articles in leading journals from members of the Department of Economics

2025

Doris, A., O’Neill, D. and Sweetman, O. “Why do the earnings of male and female graduates diverge? The roles of field of study, motherhood and job dynamics”. Forthcoming in OXFORD ECONOMIC PAPERS

Kilumelume, M.  Morando, B., Newman, C. and  Rand, J. “Tariffs, productivity and resource misallocation”. Forthcoming in WORLD BANK ECONOMIC REVIEW 

Mosca, I. and Wright, R.E., “The Relationship between Personality and Employment: Evidence from the Irish Marriage Bar”. BULLETIN OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH. http://doi.org/10.1111/boer.12499

Farnell, A., Mills, B., O'Sullivan, V., Simmons, R. And Berri, D. (2025) "The effect of task switching on productivity: Evidence from Major League Baseball pitchers". OXFORD ECONOMICS PAPERS. https://doi.org/10.1093/oep/gpaf004

Mosca, I. and Nolan, A. (2025) "The long-term effects of in-utero exposure to rubella". OXFORD BULLETIN OF ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS. https://doi.org/10.1111/obes.12663

2024

Butler, D., Farnell, A. and Simmons, R. (2024) "Do sports analytics affect footballer pay?". FRONTIERS IN BEHAVIOURAL ECONOMICS (Special Edition: Sports, Economics, and Natural Experiments) https://doi.org/10.3389/frbhe.2024.1490871

Dewit, G. & Leahy, D. (2024) Export policy cooperation in a pandemic: the good, the bad and the hopeful. ECONOMICA. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecca.12552.

Farnell, A., Butler, D., Rossi, G., Simmons, R., Berri, D. And Bamba, E. (2024). Is there a nationality wage premium in European football? SPORTS ECONOMICS REVIEW. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.serev.2024.100040

Kampfen, F. & Mosca, I. (2024). Heterogeneous effects of blood pressure screening. ECONOMICS LETTERS 242:111845. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2024.111845

Butler, D., Butler, R., Farnell, A. and Simmons, R., (2024) "COVID-19 infections and short-run worker performance: Evidence from European football", EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH, 315(2): 750-763.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2023.12.017

2023

Bryson, A ., Buraimo, B., Farnell, A. and Simmons, R. (2023) "Special Ones? The Effect of Head Coaches on Football Team Performance", SCOTTISH JOURNAL OF POLITICAL ECONOMY, 71(3): 295-322. https://doi.org/10.1111/sjpe.12369

A. Farnell (2023) "False Start? An Analysis of NFL Penalties With and Without Crowds". JOURNAL OF SPORTS ECONOMICS, 24(6). https://doi.org/10.1177/15270025221148997

Morando, B (2023) "Subsistence Farming and Factor Misallocation: Evidence from Ugandan Agriculture". WORLD BANK ECONOMIC REVIEW,  37(4): 570–598. https://doi.org/10.1093/wber/lhad017

Cuberes, D., Schmillen, A. and M. Teignier (2023) “The aggregate gains of eliminating gender and ethnic gaps in the Malaysian labor market”.  Journal of Asian Economics, 87. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asieco.2023.101615

2022

Berri, D, A. Farnell and R. Simmons (2022) "The determinants of Black quarterback pay in the National Football League", MANAGERIAL AND DECISION ECONOMICS, 44(3): 1491-1503. https://doi.org/10.1002/mde.3760

Morando, B (2022) "Aggregate productivity and inefficient cropping patterns in Uganda". JOURNAL OF PRODUCTIVITY ANALYSIS, 58: 221–237 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11123-022-00647-y

Eibich, P., Lorenti A. & Mosca, I. (2022) Does Retirement Affect Voluntary Work Provision? Evidence from Europe and the U.S. LABOUR ECONOMICS 76. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.labeco.2022.102185

Mosca, I. & Wright R.E. (2022), "Economics of Marriage Bars". In Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, ed. K. Zimmermann. Springer Nature https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57365-6_308-1

Pastine, I. and T. Pastine (2022), "Equilibrium Existence and Expected Payoffs in All-Pay Auctions with Constraints", ECONOMIC THEORY, 75: 983–1007.  https://doi.org/10.1007/s00199-022-01433-5

Doris, A, O’Neill, D and O.Sweetman, (2022) “Good Schools or Good Students? The Importance of Selectivity for School Rankings,” OXFORD REVIEW OF EDUCATION https://doi.org/10.1080/03054985.2022.2034611
 

2021

Cuberes, D (2021) 'El origen y crecimiento de las ciudades' In: Panorama Social. Spain : PANORAMA SOCIAL

Mansoor, K. and D.O'Neill (2021) "Minimum Wage Compliance and Household Welfare: An Analysis of over 1500 Minimum Wages in India," WORLD DEVELOPMENT, 147. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2021.105653

Neary, P and D. Leahy (2021) "When is the threat stronger than the execution: Trade and Welfare under Oligopoly," RAND JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS https://doi.org/10.1111/1756-2171.12380

McLaughlin, E and R. Pecchenino (2021) “Fringe Banking and Financialisation: Pawnbroking in Pre-famine and Famine Ireland,” ECONOMIC HISTORY REVIEW https://doi.org/10.1111/ehr.13132

Bryson, A. B. Buraimo, A. Farnell and R. Simmons (2021) "Time to Go? Head Coach Quis and Dismissals in Professional Football," DE ECONOMIST 169, 181-105. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10645-020-09377-8

Mosca I., V. O'Sullivan and R.E. Wright (2021) 'The Educational Attainment of the Children of Stay-at-home Mothers: Evidence from the Irish Marriage Bar'. OXFORD ECONOMIC PAPERS, 73(2) 534–560 https://doi.org/10.1093/oep/gpaa031

2020

Pellicer, M., E. Wegner , M. Bayer and C. Tischmeyer (2020), “Clientelism from the client point of view: A meta-analysis of the ethnographic literature”, forthcoming PERSPECTIVES ON POLITICS https://doi.org/10.1017/S153759272000420X

Dewit, G. and Leahy, D. (2020) 'Thinking inside the box: Optimal policy towards a footloose R&D-intensive firm'. JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ECONOMIC THEORY  
https://doi.org/10.1111/jpet.12478

Doris, A, O’Neill, D and O.Sweetman, (2020) “Does Reducing Unemployment Benefits During a Recession Reduce Youth Unemployment? Evidence from a 50% Cut in Unemployment Assistance,” 55(3)  JOURNAL OF HUMAN RESOURCES. https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2960536

Doris, A, O’Neill, D and O.Sweetman, (2020) “How Important are Firms in Explaining Wage Changes during a Recession?” 87 (345):282-298 ECONOMICA. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ecca.12305

Pellicer, M., E. Wegner and A. de Juan, “Preferences for the Scope of Protest” (2020), POLITICAL RESEARCH QUARTERLY, https://doi.org/10.1177/1065912920905001

Pellicer, M., R. Assaad, C. Krafft and C. Salemi (2020), “Grievances or Skills? The Effect of Education on Youth Political Participation in Egypt and Tunisia”, INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL SCIENCE REVIEW. https://doi.org/10.1177/0192512120927115

Cuberes, D. and R. Ramsawak (2020) “Understanding recent growth dynamics in small urban places: the case of New England” CITY AND COMMUNITY, 19(1). https://doi.org/10.1111/cico.124

Mosca I. and R.E. Wright (2020) 'The Long-term Consequences of the Irish Marriage Bar'. THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL REVIEW, 51 (1):1-34 http://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3390291
 

2019

Chapman, B and Doris, A, (2019) “Modelling Higher Education Finance Reform in Ireland," ECONOMICS OF EDUCATION REVIEW, Vol. 71, pp. 109-119 
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econedurev.2018.06.002

Cuberes, D and Teignier, M (2019) “How costly are labor gender gaps? Estimates for the Balkans and Turkey”. EASTERN EUROPEAN ECONOMICS, https://doi.org/10.1080/00128775.2018.1486715

Cuberes, D, Roberts, J and Sechel, C (2019) “Household location and income: a spatial analysis for English Cities”. REGIONAL SCIENCE AND URBAN ECONOMICS

Cuberes, D, Priyanka, S and Teignier, M (2019) “The determinants of entrepreneurship gender gaps: a cross-country analysis”. REVIEW OF DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS https://doi.org/10.1111/rode.12537

2018

Mosca, I. and R.E. Wright (2018) 'The Effect of Retirement on Cognition: Evidence from the Irish Marriage Bar'  DEMOGRPAHY, 55 (4): 1317-1341 https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-018-0682-7

Cole, M, Pastine, I and Pastine, T.  (2018) 'Incumbency Advantage in an Electoral Contest'  THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL REVIEW, 49 (4):419-436

Bodenhorn, H. and D. Cuberes (2018) “Finance and urbanization in nineteenth-century New York”,  JOURNAL OF URBAN ECONOMICS, 104: pp. 47-58. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jue.2018.01.001

O’Neill, D  (2018) “A New Competing Risks Decomposition: Application to the Effect of Cutting Unemployment Benefit on Unemployment Durations,” forthcoming at JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL STATISTICAL SOCIETY: SERIES C. https://doi.org/10.1111/rssc.12335

Dewit, G., K. Hynes and D. Leahy (2018), “Corporate tax games with cross-border Externalities from Public Infrastructure”, ECONOMIC INQUIRY, 56, 1047-1063. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecin.12516

Julie Byrne, M. Hurley, R. A. Pecchenino, (2018) "Real Options? Labor Contracts in and Uncertain World", BUSINESS ECONOMICS https://doi.org/10.1057/s11369-018-0091-3

Dewit, G. H. Görg, and Y. Temouri (2018) "Employment Protection and Firm Relocation: Theory and Evidence", ECONOMICA. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecca.12280

2017

Basso, A. and D. Cuberes (2017) 'Deep-rooted determinants of the fertility transition across countries'. MACROECONOMIC DYNAMICS https://doi.org/10.1017/S1365100515001042

Pecchenino, R. (2017). “To Whom the Spoils?” IRISH JOURNAL OF ANTHROPOLOGY, 20, 12 – 25.

N. Holton and D.O'Neill (2017)  “The Changing Nature of Irish Wage Inequality from Boom to Bust,” ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL REVIEW, 48(1), pp. 1-26. https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2708393

This paper was awarded the 2018 Brendan Walsh prize for Research by the Council of Economic and Social Studies, in recognition of being the best paper published in the ESR in 2017.
 

2016

O'Neill D  and O. Sweetman (2016) "Bounding Obesity Rates in the Presence of Self-Reporting Errors".  EMPIRICAL ECONOMICS, Vol. 50, pp. 857-871  https://doi.org/10.1007/s00181-015-0958-3

Boco, H., Germain, L., and Rousseau, F. (2016) 'Heterogeneous Noisy Beliefs and Dynamic Competition in Financial Markets'. ECONOMIC MODELLING, 54 :347-363 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econmod.2016.01.007

Leahy, D. and C. Montagna (2016) 'Economising, Strategising and the Vertical Boundaries of the firm'.B.E. JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL ECONOMICS https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2754467

Dewit, G. and D. Leahy (2016) 'Strategic R&D Commitment and the Gains from Trade'. REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS, 24 :1129-1148 https://doi.org/10.1111/roie.12250

Mosca, I. and Wright RE. (2016) Height and Cognition at Older Ages: Irish Evidence. Economics Letters 149: 98-10 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2016.10.016

Mosca, I. & McCrory C. (2016) 'Personality and Wealth Accumulation Among Older Couples: Do Dispositional Characteristics Pay Dividends?'. Journal of Economic Psychology, 56 :1-19  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joep.2016.04.006​

Mosca, I. and A. Barrett (2016) 'The Impact of Voluntary and Involuntary Retirement on Mental Health: Evidence from Older Irish Adults'. Journal of Mental Health Policy and Economics, 19 (1):33-44  https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2543918

Mosca, I. and A. Barrett (2016) 'The Impact of Adult Child Emigration on the Mental Health of Older Parents'. Journal of Population Economics, 29 (3):687-719 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-015-0582-8

Cuberes, D and Teignier, M (2016) “Aggregate costs of gender gaps in the labor market: A quantitative estimate”. JOURNAL OF HUMAN CAPITAL https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2405006
 

2015

O'Neill D. (2015)​ "Divided Opinion on The Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2013: Random or Systematic Differences?"  175–178 (239) ECONOMICS LETTERS https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2520776

Doris, A., D. O'Neill and O. Sweetman (2015) '"Wage Flexibility and the Great Recession: The Response of the Irish Labour Market" IZA JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN LABOR STUDIES 4:18,  doi:10.1186/s40174-015-0041-2​ https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2367662

Pecchenino, R (2015), "Have we cause for Despair," JOURNAL OF BEHAVIOUR AND EXPERIMENTAL ECONOMICS, 58, PP. 56-62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socec.2015.07.003

O'Neill D. (2015) 'Measuring Obesity in the Absence of a Gold Standard'. ECONOMICS & HUMAN BIOLOGY, Vol. 17, pp. 116-128. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ehb.2015.02.002

Ni Mhaille, G., McGilloway, S., Hyland, L., Leckey, Y., Kelly, P., Lodge, A., Donnelly, M. & O’Neill, D. (2015) "Exploring the effects of a universal classroom management training programme on teacher and child behaviour: A group randomised controlled trial and cost analysis" forthcoming  JOURNAL OF EARLY CHILDHOOD RESEARCH https://doi.org/10.1177/1476718X155797

Dewit, G. and D. Leahy (2015) 'Tax uniformity: A commitment device for restraining opportunistic behaviour'. JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ECONOMIC THEORY, 17: 641–672.  
https://doi.org/10.1111/jpet.12104

Pastine, T and I Pastine and P. Redmond (2015) 'Incumbent-Quality Advantage and Counterfactual Electoral Selection in the U.S. Senate'. POLITICS. 35(1) 32-45.​ https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9256.1205

Barrett, A.. Mosca , I and B. Whelan (2015) 'How Well-Informed are Pension Scheme Members on Their Future Pension Benefits? Evidence from Ireland'. Journal of Aging and Social Policy,  https://doi.org/10.1080/08959420.2015.1044817

Hudson, E., D. Madden and I. Mosca (2015) 'A Formal Investigation of Inequalities in Health Behaviours after Age 50 on the Island of Ireland'. Economic And Social Review, 46 (2):253-265
 

2014

Cuberes, D and Teignier, M (2014)  'Gender inequality and economic growth: A critical review'. JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT https://doi.org/10.1002/jid.2983

McGilloway, S., Ni Mhaille, G., Bywater, T., Leckey, Y., Kelly, P., Furlong, M., Comiskey, C., O’Neill, D. and Donnelly, M. (2014) 'Reducing child conduct disordered behaviour and improving parent mental health in disadvantaged families: A 12-month follow-up and cost analysis of a parenting intervention.' EUROPEAN CHILD & ADOLESCENT PSYCHIATRY, 23(9). pp. 783-794.​ https://doi.org/10.1007/s00787-013-0499-2

Mosca, I. and R.A. Kenny (2014) 'Investigating Cross-nationals Differences in Prevalence of Diagnosed, Measured and Undiagnosed Hypertension: the Case of Ireland and the US'. International Journal of Public Health, 59 (5):759-767 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00038-014-0573-7

2013

​Dewit, G., D. Leahy and C. Montagna (2013) 'Employment protection, flexibility and firms’ strategic location choices under uncertainty'. ECONOMICA, 80:441 - 474. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecca.12006

Doris, A , D. O'Neill and O.Sweetman (2013) 'Gender, Single-Sex Schooling and Maths Achievement'. ECONOMICS OF EDUCATION REVIEW, 35:104 - 119. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econedurev.2013.04.001
 
Doris, A, D. O'Neill and O.Sweetman (2013) 'Identification of the Covariance Structure of Earnings Using the GMM Estimator'. JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC INEQUALITY, 11:343 - 372. https://doi.org//10.1007/s10888-012-9216-5
 
Leahy, D. and C. Montagna (2013) 'Strategic investment and international outsourcing in unionised oligopoly'. LABOUR ECONOMICS, 19:260 - 269. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.labeco.2011.11.003
 
McNally, B. and Stewart, J. (2013) 'Trustees and Pension Schemes in Ireland'. JOURNAL OF FINANCIAL REGULATION AND COMPLIANCE, Volume 22 https://doi.org/10.1108/JFRC-12-2012-0051
 
O'Neill D. and O. Sweetman (2013) 'The Consequences of Measurement Error when Estimating the Impact of Obesity on Income'. THE IZA JOURNAL OF LABOR ECONOMICS, 2:3: https://doi.org/10.1186/2193-8997-2-3
 
O'Neill D.  and D. Conniffe (2013) 'An Alternative Explanation for Variation in Reported Estimates of Risk Aversion'. JOURNAL OF RISK, 15(4) Summer:91 - 102. https://doi.org/10.21314/JOR.2013.263
 
O'Neill, D, S. McGilloway, M. Donnelly, T. Bywater and P. Kelly (2013) 'A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of the Incredible Years Parenting Programme in Reducing Childhood Health Inequalities'. THE EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF HEALTH ECONOMICS, 14:85 - 94. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10198-011-0342
 
Pastine, T and I Pastine (2013) 'Soft Money and Campaign Finance Reform'. INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC REVIEW, 54/4:1117 - 1131.https://doi.org/10.1111/iere.12030

Mosca I and A. Barrett (2013) 'The Psychic Costs of Migration: Evidence from Irish Return Migrants'. Journal of Population Economics, 26 (2):483-506 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-012-0438-4

Mosca I (2013) 'Body Mass Index, Waist Circumference and Employment: Evidence from Older Irish Adults'. ECONOMICS AND HUMAN BIOLOGY, 11 (4):522-533 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ehb.2013.05.002

Mosca, I. and A. Barrett (2013) 'Increasing the State Pension Age, the Recession and Expected Retirement Ages'. Economic And Social Review, 44 (4):447-472 https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2003658

Mosca, I. and A. Barrett (2013) 'Early-life Causes and Later-life Consequences of Migration: Evidence from older Irish Adults'. Journal of Population Ageing, 6 (1):29-45 https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2158288

Mosca, I. and A. Barrett (2013) 'Social Isolation, Loneliness and Return Migration: Evidence from Older Irish Adults'. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 39 (10):1659-1677 https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2013.833694

2012

O'Neill, D. and Keogh, S. (2012) 'A Statistical Analysis of the Fairness of Alternative Handicapping Systems in Ten-Pin bowling'. AMERICAN STATISTICIAN, 66:209 - 213. https://doi.org/10.1080/00031305.2012.726933
 
Pastine, T and I Pastine (2012) 'Incumbency Advantage and Political Campaign Spending Limits'. JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ECONOMICS, 96:20 - 32. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2011.07.002
 
Pastine, T and I,Pastine (2012) 'Student Incentives and Diversity in College Admissions'. ECONOMICS OF EDUCATION REVIEW, 31:123 – 130.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econedurev.2011.09.005

Cuberes, D and Mountford, A (2012)  'Fiscal policy institutions and history'. ECONOMICS LETTERS https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2011.12.062