Determinants of Private Afforestation in the Republic of Ireland
Siobhan McCarthy, Alan Matthews, Brendan Riordan
This paper employs a panel regression analysis using county-level data to quantify the relative importance of competing forestry and agricultural policy incentives in explaining trends in private...
Household Characteristics of Higher Education Participants
Martin Ryan, Siobhan McCarthy, Carol Newman
The aim of this paper is to analyse the characteristics of Irish households that have a member participating in higher education, using surveys of Irish households collected in 1994-95 and 1999-2000....
An Econometric Analysis of Charitable Donations in the Republic of Ireland
James Carroll, Siobhan McCarthy, Carol Newman
This paper explores the variables that affect the probability of donating to charity and those that affect the size of donations by Irish households. The dataset employed is the Irish Household...