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Trinity economics and philosophy graduates win Schwarzman scholarshipsTwo Trinity graduates—Conor McGlynn and Conor O’Meara—are among the 147 individuals that comprise the 2020 cohort of the Schwarzman Scholars, which is one of the world’s leading graduate fellowship programmes, located at Schwarzman College at Tsinghua University in Beijing. -
Trinity and Oxford go head-to-head in Student Economic Review Brexit debateThe Student Economic Review (SER) recently co-hosted a debate with the College Historical Society (The Hist) on the motion This House would unite Ireland post-Brexit. The event was part of an SER tradition of annual debates between Trinity and either Oxford or Cambridge. -
Reducing child mortality in the last mile:experimental evidence from UgandaAn innovative health programme providing financial incentives to health workers led to a 27% reduction in child mortality in rural Uganda. Professor Andrea Guariso summarizes his new research (with M Björkman Nyqvist, J Svensson, and D Yanagizawa-Drott) in an article published in "VoxDev". -
Political representation: ethnicity trumps gender in Burundi and RwandaProfessor Andrea Guariso discusses how ethnicity still plays a major role in society and political life in Burundi and Rwanda in an opinion piece published in "The Conversation". The piece is based on his article with Bert Ingelaere and Marijke Verpoorten (University of Antwerp), recently published in Development and Change. -
Assistant Professors in EconomicsThe Department of Economics, School of Social Sciences and Philosophy is seeking to appoint 1-3 Assistant Professors in Economics in the fields of Applied Microeconomics and Macroeconomics, to commence on 1st August 2019. For full details see http://jobs.tcd.ie.
