We examine the relationship between the distribution of upper secondary school performance and a range of individual and school level characteristics using unconditional quantile regression methods and data from Ireland. We find that determinants such as social class, maternal unemployment,...

Cullinan J., Garvey E. and Keane M. Investigating the determinants of relative economic performance for Irish towns: a finite-mixture modelling approach, <italic>Regional Studies</italic>. This paper uses a finite-mixture modelling approach to investigate the likely determinants of relative economic performance...

The application of the theory of partially ordered sets to voting systems is an important development in the mathematical theory of elections. Many of the results in this area are on the comparative properties between traditional elections with linearly ordered ballots and those with partially...

The factors influencing the decision of school leavers to participate in higher education has been extensively investigated previously. This has mainly focused on the influence of characteristics such as parental education level, social class and spatial factors on the decision to participate in...