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With my colleagues on the Education Ireland tour of Indian universities at Dayananda Sagar University, Bengalaru.

I visited St Stephen’s College, University of Delhi with TUS and NUIG colleagues to discuss higher education opportunities in Ireland. Thanks to Anam Hamid, Education Ireland, for organising this visit.

With colleagues from TUShannon (Louise Murray)and NUIG (Aaron Potito) I visited the TERI School of Advanced Studies, Delhi to discuss cooperation between TERI and our universities

I’m in Delhi

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x.com/economicsucd... We’re hiring in UCD Economics, two tenure track positions: one in Economics and Data Science and one in Behavioural Economics and Sustainability

youtube.com/watch?v=hZSo... You’re not a celebrity economist until Loudon Wainwright III has a song about you (Paul Krugman)

Meanwhile

Ireland 🇮🇪 has unilaterally renamed the North Atlantic Ocean 😒

A @ucddublin.bsky.social graduate who did important work in neuroscience www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

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Journey of the Magi

Employment in Agriculture in Ireland has almost halved since 1991. Similar trend to other small European countries. Will this trend continue ?

Some crazy facts about 2025 (the number) youtu.be/aFw6oz20oNQ

www.independent.ie/regionals/ke... Blasket Islands’ oldest surviving inhabitant celebrates milestone birthday in US www.independent.ie/regionals/ke... Blasket Islands’ oldest surviving inhabitant celebrates milestone birthday in US

Christmas isn’t a great time for everyone. If you’re in Ireland and need help:

Big news from Finnish publication forum. Almost all MDPI and Frontiers journals will be downgraded to level 0 and thus are not considered as properly peer reviewed trustworthy scientific journals. julkaisufoorumi.fi/en/news/chan...

Currently reading Cormac Ó Gráda’s ‘The Hidden Victims’ - a humane and ethically informed attempt to quantify the civilian dead of WW1 and WW2, by the doyen of Irish economic historians #IrishResearch

www.theguardian.com/technology/2... www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

The Maritime Approximation xkcd.com/3023

I noticed that on X/Twitter how Americans, openly refer to Luigi Mangione as guilty in the Brian Thompson case. Where I come from this would be seen as prejudicial to a fair trial.

Interesting piece on when JM Keynes came to Dublin in 1933 drb.ie/articles/key...

Interesting study from the Institute Pasteur 🇫🇷 on excess mortality, controlling for age, in the first wave of Covid. UK, Spain doing pretty bad. Ireland is about average.

Berlin or Boston? No we should be more like Norway advises Fiscal Council www.independent.ie/business/unr... ‘Unrealistic’ projections setting us up for a fall, says Fiscal Advisory Council, as November’s tax take hits €22.8bn

Apropos the general election in Ireland & the low no. of women elected, I asked Undermind for a review of the evidence on the efficacy of gender quotas at increasing female representation. TL/DR: yes. See below for more details www.undermind.ai/query_app/di...

Free instrumental variables : a global database of educational reforms in 157 countries since 1789: Adrián del Río et al dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtm...

www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/r... The best butter is 🇮🇪

We’re famous 😆 youtu.be/ydn9T0kQdrc?...

In the run-up to the election it can be interesting to know who turns out to vote. Using ESS data for Ireland, we can see that older, more educated and rural voters are more likely to vote as are married people. Those struggling money-wise or healthy-wise are less likely to vote.

If you’re voting in the Irish General Election this is a useful way to find which candidates share your views. www.whichcandidate.ie

www.undermind.ai/home/ I have used this a little and it seems promising

One reason I’m here

This podcast where Orley Ashenfelter talks to Steve Nickell about his career is a great listen. Steve was my supervisor and co-author. podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/t...

Wow news.mit.edu/2024/mit-tui...

I’m curious that the mortality rate is so high in Germany. Pleased it’s so low in Ireland.

GDP is the standard measure of how a macroeconomy is doing.There is one country where it is a useless measure: Ireland,especially since 2015. It’s because of the effect of a small number of large firms and their IP- mostly. We have a pretty good measure though Modified GNI or GNI*.

I’m really looking forward to this

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My UCD Economics colleague Cormac Ó Gráda has published a remarkable book on the civilian casualties of the two world wars showing that the death toll was much higher than previously known. press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...