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CEPH staff receive Taighde Éireann – Research Ireland Research Ally 2024 awards
  Congratulations to our Associate Director for Data and Archives, Prof. Ronan Lyons and our Administrative Officer, Sarah Cunningham on their Taighde Éireann – Research Ireland Research Ally awards. Postgraduate students, postdoctoral fellows, academic and research active staff were invited to...
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Applications now open for three CEPH Research Assistant positions at Trinity College Dublin
We are seeking to appoint three exceptional candidates to the post of Research Assistant in Economic History, based at Trinity College Dublin. The Research Assistant will be active in assisting the delivery of CEPH’s research programme. These full-time positions will start in September 2025, there are...
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Iris Wohnsiedler passes Viva exam
On December 4th, CEPH PhD student Iris Wohnsiedler passed her PhD viva exam. Her dissertation, titled ‘Essays in the economic history of labour market institutions and industry locations’, passed without revisions. Iris’ dissertation explores labour market institutions in a micro-economic...
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Chris Colvin features in RTÉ documentary
CEPH Associate Director Chris Colvin has featured in RTÉ’s new documentary series ’10 Things To Know About’. Chris explores the issue of food security in Ireland, and how the Great Famine and other crises shaped the development of the nation. In an ever-changing climate with extreme weather events becoming...
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CEPH hosts workshop for the Northern Ireland Civil Service Economist Profession
On November 19th, CEPH hosted a workshop in Queen’s University Belfast for a group of economists currently working in the Northern Irish Civil Service. The workshop, titled ‘CEPH Economic History and Policymaking Workshop’, demonstrates the value of the long-run perspective in a policymaking...
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Zombie International Currency: The Pound Sterling 1945–1971
Abstract: This paper examines the international role of sterling during the Bretton Woods era and argues that it was not a competitor to the U.S. dollar. I construct a novel dataset to measure the reserve role of sterling in Europe and sterling area countries. The postwar reserve role of sterling was...
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From Pensions To Pupils? Schooling, Resource Constraints And Old Age Pensions In Ireland 1901-11
Abstract: A large literature argues that resource constraints inhibit human capital accumulation. We test this hypothesis using the introduction of the Old Age Pension in Ireland in 1908, evaluating its spillover on school enrolments within multigenerational households. Exploiting the OAP’s age-based...
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Forced Migration and Local Economic Development: Evidence from Postwar Hungary
Abstract: We investigate the effects of forced migration on sending economies using the post-WW2 expulsion of German minorities from Hungary as a natural experiment. We combine historical and contemporary data sources to show that the forced migrations led to lasting reductions in economic activity....
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Reversing fortunes of German regions, 1926–2019: Boon and bane of early industrialization?
Abstract: This paper shows that nineteenth-century industrialization is an essential determinant of the pronounced changes in economic prosperity across German regions over the last 100 years. Using novel data on economic activity in 163 labor market regions in West Germany, we find that nearly half...
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Housing Prices, Costs, And Policy: The Housing Supply Equation In Ireland Since 1970
Abstract: This article examines the responsiveness of new housing supply to prices and costs, using the case of Ireland at quarterly frequency from the 1970s, as well as a county-level panel from the 1990s. Across four error-correction specifications, and supported by an instrumental variables approach,...
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