Recent analyses of Ireland's marital fertility transition based on the Princeton Ig and the Stanford CPA measures are … comparing Ireland with Scotland and applying the measure to three specially-constructed local data sets. …

link the population of a country to a host of economic and social phenomena. Using both graphical and statistical … techniques, I search for an impact of size on the level of income, inflation, material well-being, health, education, the quality …

of future population size. The essay begins with a summary of welfare economic theory as it pertains to situations where … population size is not subject to choice, and notes that a symmetry (or anonymity) axiom on social welfare functions has almost … invariably been invoked in the theory. It then summarizes optimum population theory and emphasizes that the existing theory …

compare the wages of returned migrants with the wages of those who stayed in Ireland. In a recent paper, it has been argued …Higher rates of economic growth in recent years have led Ireland from being a country characterized by emigration to … one where population inflows have become an important issue. This paper contains an analysis of one element of the current …

paper we examine what has happened to earnings inequality and the returns to education in Ireland between 1987 and 1997. We …

This paper exploits an unusual policy reform that had the effect of reducing the direct cost of schooling in Ireland in …

domestic plants and foreign multinationals in Ireland. To this end we make use of the index developed by Ellison and Glaeser …