Geary and Stark find that Ireland´s Post-Famine per capita GDP converged with British levels, and that this convergence … Ireland in order to facilitate an assessment of sources of this TFP growth, including the relative contribution of men and …. The speed at which women converged is consistent with Geary and Stark´s interpretation of Irish economic history; Ireland …

In the decade before the famine, Ireland experienced a boom in Microfinance Institutions (MFIs). This paper analyses …

endogenous, determined by social, cultural and economic forces. We study language loss in nineteenth-century Ireland's bilingual …

demographic composition of a country. We build a new demographic database for Ireland's 32 counties with vital statistics on …

demographic composition of a country. We build a new demographic database for Ireland's 32 counties with vital statistics on …

introduction of a locally funded poor law in Ireland. The development of a nascent welfare system in 1838 coincided with a boom in … the formation of microfinance institutions in Ireland. The focus of this study is the expansion of a hybrid organisational …

Ireland failed because it was unsuccessful at adopting the cooperative institution, and that Irish cooperatives were not as … Ireland. This nuances the idea that the Irish were unable to cooperate successfully, although some creameries were certainly …

Why did the establishment of cooperative creameries in late nineteenth century Ireland fail to halt the relative … proprietary sector which was opposed to cooperation, reinforced the already difficult conditions for dairying in Ireland due to …

famine Ireland. This paper studies the role of pawnbroking in the Irish financial system during this important period …, applying insights from modern studies on fringe banking to analyse pawnbroking in Ireland. In the period under study, a formal … provided a steady source of credit throughout the island of Ireland and that this credit stream was more durable than that …