John Cullinan

Interested in the effects of commuting on college students? Then check out my new @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social article!

How long commutes are impacting third-level students 42% of Irish students live at home and spend well in excess of two hours travelling to and from college every day

How long commutes are impacting third-level students. Analysis by @beta1hat.bsky.social @uniofgalway.bsky.social & @dflan.bsky.social @unioflimerick.bsky.social of new research showing 42% of Irish students spend well over 2 hours travelling to and from college every day www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

An exciting day here @maynoothuni hosting this year's Irish Postgraduate and Early Career Economics (IPECE) Workshop 2026. The workshop is an excellent opportunity to engage with research results and work-in-progress in a welcoming and constructive environment.

#econsky et al. I am happy to announce the #call_for_papers for the 2026 Economics of Mental Health Workshop!
The workshop is hosted by @peibich.bsky.social at Paris Dauphine and takes place from June 22-23. They keynotes are @jcmecon.bsky.social & Marco Bertoni. 1/n

Francis Edgeworth: A Centenary Celebration of an Oxford Economist

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We are hiring a new Professorship in my Department, the Kemmy Chair in Economics. We’re looking for stellar applicants to lead the Department’s development in the coming years. Closing date is Feb 27, 2026.

Details here:

my.corehr.com/pls/esbsheul...

🚨 CALL FOR PAPERS: The 39th Annual Irish Economic Association conference will be hosted by @centralbank_ie. We’re delighted to open our call, closing 23 January 2026.

Conference details:

📆 7-8 May 2026
📍 Thurles, Co. Tipperary

👉🏻 More details - bit.ly/IEA2026

📢 We’re thrilled to announce the launch of our new “Research Fellows” program! 🎉

If you’ve contributed to a Replication Game, published in our Discussion Papers series, or helped organize one of our events — you’re invited to join the roster of I4R Research Fellows.

Call for Papers for the Irish Postgraduate and Early Career Economics Irish Postgraduate and Early Career Economics (IPECE) Workshop 2026 29th and 30th of January 2026, Maynooth University Call for papers We invite early career economists and PhD students to submit

We invite early career economists and PhD students to submit their extended abstracts or research papers for consideration for the Irish Postgraduate and Early Career Economics (IPECE) Workshop 2026.

See more:

Hope you can join us, March 18-20, 2026, University of Galway

www.maxwell.syr.edu/research/cen...

We invite early career economists and PhD students to submit their extended abstracts or research papers for consideration for the Irish Postgraduate and Early Career Economics (IPECE) Workshop 2026.

See more:
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The ESR is inviting papers for a special issue on “Turbulence and Transition: The Economic and Social Consequences of Contemporary Global Events in Ireland” edited by Conor O’Toole (ESRI), Carmel Hannan (UL) and Darragh Flannery (UL). Submission deadline March 27th 2026 www.esr.ie/index.php/es...

Ireland Masterclass in Health Economics

Registration is open for the Fifth Ireland Masterclass in Health Economics, which will be held March 18-20, 2026 in Galway at @uniofgalway.bsky.social.

To register, email Ciaran O'Neill at Ciaran.ONeill@qub.ac.uk

More info here:
www.maxwell.syr.edu/research/cen...

The programme for the Economics Winter Workshop at the Central Bank of Ireland is now live!

This pre-Christmas conference is featuring a fantastic array of talks from top academics and policy economists. Information on how to register at the link below:

www.centralbank.ie/events/2025/...

The 18th Irish Workshop on Economics, Psychology, & Policy will take place on 14th November 2025 at the University of Galway. Programme and some remaining places for those who wish to attend the talks available here economicspsychologypolicy.blogspot.com/2025/10/18th...

Excellent work completed by IEA Members recently on Ireland's #Budget2026 💶with high quality information, analysis and commentary.

For a quick runthrough, take a look at our new LinkedIn post on our dedicated IEA page
bit.ly/Budget2026_IEA

We are delighted to host the fifth annual ISWE Post Budget Analysis Event which will take place in 2.31 MUSSI Seminar Room, Iontas Building on Wednesday 8th of October @ 5:30pm. The event is free to attend but registration is required and places are limited. Register here: buff.ly/98fLmkc

Cool event reminder! Please note we now have a number of €200 awards for PhD students travelling to Galway to participate. If you wish to be considered for an award, please get in touch (contact details at end of Matthew’s thread). Reposts welcome! Cc: @i4replication.bsky.social

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Really looking forward to this!

Cool event reminder! Please note we now have a number of €200 awards for PhD students travelling to Galway to participate. If you wish to be considered for an award, please get in touch (contact details at end of Matthew’s thread). Reposts welcome! Cc: @i4replication.bsky.social

We have our first games ever in Ireland next month. The event will be at the University of Galway as part of CERIS’s Annual Workshop on September 26th. Virtual participation is possible and coauthorship to a meta paper is granted.

Register here: www.surveymonkey.ca/r/Replicatio...

🚨 The Irish Economic Association (IEA) is delighted to join Bluesky! 🎉

The IEA is the national scientific body for economists in Ireland. Our mission is to contribute to the development and application of economics across the island.

🔗 Visit iea.ie
🔗 Follow us on LinkedIn bit.ly/IEA_LinkedIn

Cool event alert! Join us in Galway in September for a workshop on replication in economics and Ireland's very first replication games. Full details in Matthew’s thread below. Please repost/share widely.

We have 8 replication games over the next 13 weeks (Tilburg, Bordeaux, Brno, Galway, Berlin, Paris, Lyon and Ottawa)! Not too late to register to any of these events:

i4replication.org/games.html

Cool event alert! Join us in Galway in September for a workshop on replication in economics and Ireland's very first replication games. Full details in Matthew’s thread below. Please repost/share widely.

Ireland's 1st replication games!

In collaboration with the @i4replication.bsky.social, and as part of the annual CERIS Workshop, we are hosting Ireland's first replication games in Galway on September 25-26th.

The effect of area-level waiting times for psychological therapies on individual-level labour market outcomes The association between common mental health conditions, including anxiety and depression, and labour outcomes has been extensively documented. Howeve…

📣 New paper alert 📣

Very happy to see this piece of work with The University of Manchester colleagues Joe Dodd, @lukemunford.bsky.social and @mattxsutton.bsky.social out in Labour Economics.

Full paper here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

@arc-gm.bsky.social @hope-uom.bsky.social

A nice tribute to Peter Neary by Patrick Honohan and Cormac Ó Gráda:

www.ucd.ie/economics/t4...

#econsky

“According to the CDC, in 10 percent of those drownings, the adult will actually watch the child do it, having no idea it is happening”