Peer-reviewed publications 

Denny, K. and O’Sullivan V. “The Economic Consequences of Being Left-Handed”. Forthcoming at Journal of Human Resources.  

Denny, K. and O’Sullivan V. “Can Education Compensate for Low Ability”. Forthcoming at Applied Economic Letters.   

Denny, K. and Doyle, O.  “Political Interest, Cognitive Ability and Personality: Determinants of Voter Turnout in Britain”, Forthcoming at British Journal of Political Science.

Denny, K. and Doyle, O. "Take up thy Bed, and Vote" Measuring the Relationship between Voting Behaviour and Indicators of Health". Forthcoming at European Journal of Public Health.  

Black, S., Devereux, P. and Salvanes, K. “From the Cradle to the Labor Market? The  Effects of Birth Weight on Adult Outcomes”, Forthcoming at Quarterly Journal of Economics.

Devereux, P. “Small Sample Bias in Synthetic Cohort Models of Labor Supply”, Forthcoming at Journal of Applied Econometrics. 

Devereux, P. “Improved Errors-In-Variables Estimators for Grouped Data”, Forthcoming at Journal of Business and Economics Statistics. 

Black, S., Devereux, P. and Salvanes, K. (2005) “The More the Merrier? The Effect of Family Size and Birth Order on Children’s Education”, Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 2005. 

Black, S., Devereux, P. and Salvanes, K. (2005) “Why the Apple Doesn’t Fall Far: Understanding the Intergenerational Transmission of Education”, American Economic Review, March 2005.  

Doyle, O. and Walsh, P. "Did Political Constraints bind during Transition? Evidence from Czech Elections 1990-2002",  Forthcoming at Economics of Transition.

Doyle, O. and Fidrmuc J. (2006) “Who is in Favour of Enlargement? Determinants of Support for EU Membership in Candidate Countries’ Referenda.” European Journal of Political Economy, 22: 520-543. 

Chevalier, A., Finn, C., Harmon, C. & Heckman, J. (2006) “The Microeconomics of Early Child Investment", Journal of Children’s Services, 1 (2): 18-31.

Heckman, J. (2006) “Skill Formation and the Economics of Investing in Disadvantaged Children”, Science 312 (5782): 1900-1902.

Heckman, J., Stixrud, J. & Urzua, S. (2006) “The Effects of Cognitive and Noncognitive Abilities on Labor Market Outcomes and Social Behavior”, Journal of Labor Economics 24 (3): 411-482.

Heckman, J., Knudsen, E., Cameron, J. & Shonkoff, J. (2006) “Economic, Neurobiological, and Behavioral Perspectives on Building America’s Future Workforce”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 103 (27): 10155-10162.

Heckman, J. & FaFontaine.P. (2006) “Bias Corrected Estimates of GED Returns”, Journal of Labor Economics 24 (3): 661-700.

Kapur, K. and Rogowski, J. “The Role of Health Insurance in Joint Retirement among Married Couples”, Forthcoming at Industrial and Labor Relations Review. 

Kapur, K., Escarce, J., Marquis, S. and Simon, K. “Where Do the Sick Go? Health Insurance and Employment in Small and Large Firms,” Forthcoming at Southern Economic Journal, 2006.

Kapur, K., Escarce, J. and Rogowski, J. (2006) “Health Expenditure in Medicare Managed Care: The Role of Socio-Economic Status”, Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved , 17.

Timmins, L. (2006) “Consumption Trends of the U.S. Hispanic Population from 1980–2003”,
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Profitwise News and Views, Special Edition, October 2006.

Working papers 

Bargain, O. and Donni, 0. (2007) "A Theory of Child Targeting". UCD Geary Discussion Paper 2007/10.

Denny, K. (2005) “Do Teachers Make Better Parents?” Geary Discussion Paper 2005/4. 

Denny, K. (2004) “Born to be Wild? The Effects of Birth Order, Families and Schools on Truancy”, Geary Discussion Paper 2004/6.

Denny, K. and Doyle, O. (2006) “Measuring the Relationship Between Health and Voting Behaviour in Ireland”. UCD Geary Discussion Paper 2006/10.  

Denny, K. and Doyle, O. (2005) “Does Voting History Matter: Analysing Persistence in Turnout”. UCD Geary Discussion Paper 2005/13; Centre for Economic Research, Working Paper Series WP06/07, University College Dublin.  

Denny, K. and Doyle, O. (2005) “Returns to Basic Skills in Central and Eastern Europe: A Semi-Parametric Approach”, Centre For Economic Research, Working Paper Series WP05/07, University College Dublin.  

Denny, K., Harmon, C., and O'Sullivan, V. (2004). "Education, earnings and skills: a multi-country comparison" IFS Working Papers, W04/08.  

Doyle, O., Harmon, C., Heckman, J.J., and Tremblay, R. "Early Childhood Intervention: Rationale, Timing, and Efficacy."  UCD Geary Discussion Paper 2007/05. 

Doyle, O., Harmon, C. and Walker, I. (2005), “The Impact of Parental Income and Education on the Health of their Children”, IZA Discussion Paper No.  1832, Nov (2005). 

Chevalier, A., Harmon, C., O’Sullivan, V. and Walker, I. (2005)  "The Impact of Parental Income and Education on the Schooling of their Children", IFS Working Paper W05/5.  

Book chapters 

Heckman, J. Cunha, F. and Navarro, S. (2006) “Counterfactual Analysis of Inequality and Social Mobility”, in Morgan, S., Grusky, D. & Fields. G/   (Eds) Mobility and Inequality: Frontiers of Research from Sociology, Palo Alto: Stanford University Press