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Wednesday, 11 October 2017

The Inter-Generational Distribution of Public Expenditures

Professor Cathal O’Donoghue is the Dean of Arts, Social Sciences and Celtic Studies. He is a UCC graduate, a statistician and economist by training, with post graduate degrees from the universities of Oxford and Warwick, UCD and the London School of Economics. His personal research programme involves the development and use of policy simulation models, for which he holds a Chair at the University of Maastricht, as well as an adjunct position in UCD. Cathal has specific interests in generational equity, intergenerational transfers and the impact of budgetary policy on differences across the life course and across cohorts. He has published over 150 research papers, four books and supervised over 25 PhD students to completion. He has been an advisor to many international organisations and was a long-term advisor to the British Government’s Department of Work and Pensions on policy modelling earlier in his career.

Location: Room g006, ILAS    
Time:4 p.m.