I work on many topics & with great people. Recently I have been mostly working on:
- Education economics (co-authors Orla Doyle, Patricia O’Reilly, Vincent O’ Sullivan, Veruska Oppedisano)
- Height and well-being
- Breastfeeding: its effect on cognitive ability, BMI and height (with Orla Doyle)
- Civic returns to education: its effect on attitudes
Publications since 2007:
‘Breastfeeding predicts handedness’ forthcoming Laterality.
‘Instrumental variable estimation of the effect of prayer on depression’ Social Science and Medicine 2011
‘Handedness and drinking behaviour’ British Journal of Health Psychology (2011), 16(2), 386-395
‘Returns to Basic Skills in Central and Eastern Europe: A Semi-parametric Approach’ (with Orla Doyle) (2010), Economics of Transition, 18(1) 183-208
‘On a dubious theory of cross-country intelligence differences’ (2009) Journal of Evolutionary Psychology, 7, 341-346
‘Does Voting History Matter? Analysing Persistence in Turnout’ (2009) (with Orla Doyle) American Journal of Political Science, 53 (1), 17-35
‘Handedness and depression: evidence from a large population survey’ (2008) Laterality, 14(3), 246-266
‘Beauty and intelligence may- or may not- be related’ (2008) Intelligence, 36, 616-618
‘Political interest, cognitive ability and personality: determinants of voter turnout’ (2008) (with Orla Doyle) British Journal of Political Science 38, 291-310
‘Big and tall parents do not have more sons’ (2008) Journal of Theoretical Biology, 250 (4):752-753.
`Letter concerning Sonnenberg (2008) “Why is academic medicine run by former C-students?` (2008) Medical Hypotheses, 71(4) , 605
‘Cognitive ability and continuous measures of relative hand-skill’. (2008) Neuropsychologia, 46 (7):2091-2094.
‘The Economic Consequences of being Left-Handed: some sinister results’ (2007) (with Vincent O’Sullivan) Journal of Human Resources, XLII (2):353-374.
‘Can education compensate for low ability?’ (2007) (with Vincent O’Sullivan). Applied Economic Letters, 14:657-660.
‘Take up thy bed and vote: measuring the relationship between voting behaviour and health’. (2007) (with Orla Doyle) European Journal of Public Health, 17 :400-401.
‘Measuring the relationship between voter turnout and health in Ireland’. Irish Medical Journal (2007) (with Orla Doyle) 100 (7):55-56.
