Dr Aedín Doris

Economics

Associate Professor
Head of Department

Rhetoric House
32
(01) 708 3927

Biography

Aedín Doris has been at Maynooth's Economics Department since 1997, after undertaking her PhD at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy.

Aedín is an applied labour economist doing research mainly in the areas of earnings inequality, the economics of education and labour market public policy. Her research addresses policy-relevant questions using empirical analysis, typically of Irish data.

She has research interests in the determinants of earnings and earnings inequality; educational inequality; gender inequality in the labour market; the labour market effects of benefit systems; and higher education funding and access. She has published in leading international journals such as the Journal of Human Resources, Economica, the Economics of Education Review, the Journal of Economic Inequality, the Oxford Review of Education and the IZA Journal of European Labor Studies.

Her policy work has included reports on income-contingent student loans, the HEAR and DARE university access routes, the introduction of a Living Wage and the introduction of the Minimum Wage.

In 2017, she was joint winner (with Bruce Chapman of Australian National University) of the Miriam Hederman O'Brien prize, awarded by the Foundation for Fiscal Studies for outstanding work in the area of fiscal policy.

Aedín is a member of the External Advisory Group for IGEES (the Irish Government Economic and Evaluation Service). She was a member of the government's Pensions Commission and was Managing Editor of the Economic and Social Review, Ireland's foremost Economics journal, from 2020-2023.

Research Interests

Areas of interest include Labour Economics, Economics of Inequality, Economics of Education, Labour Market Public Policy.


Peer Reviewed Journal

Year Publication
2022 Doris, A; O'Neill, D; Sweetman, O (2022) 'Good schools or good students? The importance of selectivity for school rankings'. Oxford Review of Education, 48 (6):804-826. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2020 Aedín Doris, Donal O'Neill, Olive Sweetman (2020) 'Does Reducing Unemployment Benefits During a Recession Reduce Youth Unemployment? Evidence from a 50% Cut in Unemployment Assistance'. Journal of Human Resources, 55 (3):902-925. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2020 Aedín Doris; Donal O'Neill; Olive Sweetman (2020) 'How Important are Firms in Explaining Wage Changes During a Recession?'. Economica, 87 (345):282-298. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2019 Bruce Chapman; Aedín Doris (2019) 'Modelling higher education financing reform for Ireland'. Economics of Education Review, 71 :109-119. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2019 Aedín Doris (2019) 'Ireland's Gender Wage Gap, Past and Present'. Economic And Social Review, 50 :667-681. [Full-Text]
2015 Aedin Doris, Donal O'Neill, Olive Sweetman (2015) 'Wage Flexibility and the Great Recession: the response of the Irish Labour Market'. IZA JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN LABOR STUDIES, 4:18 . [Full-Text]
2013 Doris, A; O'Neill, D; Sweetman, O (2013) 'Gender, single-sex schooling and maths achievement'. Economics of Education Review, 35 :104-119. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2013 Doris, A; O'Neill, D; Sweetman, O (2013) 'Identification of the covariance structure of earnings using the GMM estimator'. Journal of Economic Inequality, 11 :343-372. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2011 Doris, A; O'Neill, D; Sweetman, O (2011) 'GMM estimation of the covariance structure of longitudinal data on earnings'. Stata Journal, 11 :439-459. [Full-Text]
2001 Aedín Doris (2001) 'The Changing Responsiveness of Labour Supply During the 1990s'. Quarterly Economic Commentary, 12 :68-82. [Full-Text]
1998 Doris, A (1998) 'Married women in the Irish part-time labour market'. Economic And Social Review, 29 :157-178. [Full-Text]

Book Chapter

Year Publication
2017 Darragh Flannery; Aedín Doris; Bruce Chapman (2017) 'Student financing of higher education' In: Economic Insights on Higher Education Policy in Ireland: Evidence from a Public System. Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan. [DOI]
2000 Aedín Doris (2000) 'Wage Differentials and Labour Market Participation' In: How Unequal? Men and Women in the Irish Labour Market. Dublin : Oaktree Press.
2000 Aedín Doris, Tim Callan and Brian Nolan (2000) 'Taxes, Transfers and Labour Market Responses in Ireland: Where Do We Go from Here?' In: Taxes, Transfers and Labour Market Responses: What Can Microsimulation Tell Us?. Dublin : Economic and Social Research Institute Policy Research Series No. 36.

Published Report

Year Publication
2022 Aedin Doris, Donal O'Neill, Olive Sweetman (2022) Research on the Introduction of a Living Wage in Ireland. Department of Enterprise, Trade & Employment, . [Link]
2021 Commission on Pensions (Aedin Doris, Commission member) (2021) The Report of the Commission on Pensions. Department of Social Protection, . [Link]
2021 Commission on Pensions (Aedin Doris, Commission member and Technical Sub-Committee member) (2021) Pensions Commission Technical Working Paper 1: Population and Labour Force Projections. Department of Social Protection, . [Link]
2021 Commission on Pensions (Aedin Doris, Commission member and Technical Sub-Committee member) (2021) Pensions Commission Technical Working Paper 2: Expenditure Projections. Department of Social Protection, . [Link]
2021 Commission on Pensions (Aedin Doris, Commission member and Technical Sub-Committee member) (2021) Pensions Commission Technical Working Paper 3: Poverty Prevention and State Pensions. Department of Social Protection, . [Link]
2021 Commission on Pensions (Aedin Doris, Commission member and Technical Sub-Committee member) (2021) Pensions Commission Technical Working Paper 4: Benchmarking and Indexation. Department of Social Protection, . [Link]
2016 Expert Group on Funding for Higher Education; Aedin Doris (contributor to Appendix 3) (2016) Investing in National Ambition: a Strategy for Funding Higher Education. Department of Education and Skills, .
2014 Delma Byrne, Aedin Doris, Olive Sweetman, Ruth Casey, David Raffe (2014) A National Evaluation of the HEAR and DARE Supplementary Admission Routes to Higher Education: Report Commissioned by the HEAR DARE Strategic Development Group of the Irish Universities Association. HEAR DARE Strategic Development Group, . [Link] [Full-Text]
1999 Tim Callan and Aedín Doris (1999) Labour Supply Responses to the Minimum Wage, Chapter 4 in 'The Impact of the Minimum Wage in Ireland: Report for the Inter-Departmental Group on the Implementation of a National Minimum Wage. The Stationery Office, Government Publications Office, .

Other Journal

Year Publication
2023 Aedin Doris (2023) 'Discussion of An Analysis of the Current Leaving Certificate Points System and a New Leaving Certificate Points System by O'Hare & Ryan' Journal of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 52 . [Link]
2021 Aedin Doris (2021) 'Discussion of Top Incomes in Ireland: Reconciling Evidence from Tax Records and Household Survey Data by Tim Callan, Karina Doorley and Alyvia McTague' Journal of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 50 :13-14. [Link]
2015 Aedin Doris (2015) 'Discussion of Developments in the Irish Labour Market during the Crisis: What Lessons for Policy? by Thomas Conefrey, Martina Lawless & Suzanne Linehan' Journal of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 44 :33-34. [Link]
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Honors and Awards

Date Title Awarding Body
01/10/2017 Miriam Hederman O'Brien Prize Foundation for Fiscal Studies

Committees

Committee Function From / To
External Advisory Group, Irish Government Economic and Evaluation Service Board Member 03/10/2016 -
Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland Council Member 25/01/2018 -
Economic and Social Studies Member 05/09/2016 -
Commission on Pensions Member 25/11/2020 - 07/10/2021
HEAR Review Working Group Member 01/10/2019 - 27/05/2021

Education

Start date Institution Qualification Subject
European University Institute PhD
Trinity College Dublin MLitt