Invited Lectures
Working Together? Experimental Evidence from a Multifaceted Anti-Poverty Program in Malawi
Innovation for Poverty Action, Freetown, SL, 2026.
Targeting, Household Cooperation and Social Norms: Experimental Evidence from Malawi and Mauritania
Ministry of Social Protection and Family, Santiago, Chile, 2026.
Targeting, Household Cooperation and Social Norms: Experimental Evidence from Malawi and Mauritania
Centro de Estudios Públicos (CEP), Santiago, Chile, 2026.
Women’s Empowerment within Social Protection Programming
69th UN Congress on the Status of Women, New York, 2025.
Intimate Partner Violence and Anti-Poverty Programmes
Innovation for Poverty Action, Kampala, 2023.
The Gender Dimensions of Multi-faceted Anti-poverty Programmes
Concern Worldwide, Kigali, 2023.
Experimental Economics and Business Growth
Startuponomics 2019, Google HQ, Dublin, 2019.
Consumer Incentives in the Mortgage Market
Banco Central de Reserva del Peru, 2019
Microinsurance Research Development Workshop
CGIAR and Innovation for Poverty Action, Global Microinsurance Summit, Lusaka, 2018
Behavioral Research for Consumer Protection Policymaking Workshop
CGAP and Innovation for Poverty Action, Nairobi, 2017
General Election 2016: Issues, Implications and Predictions
Trinity College Dublin, 2016
Access to Financial Services in Developing Countries
World Bank, Trade and Competitiveness/DIME Impact Evaluation Workshop, Istanbul, 2015.
Financial Inclusion Research Colloquium, 2012
Financial Sector Deepening Trust (FSD), Nairobi, 2012
Conferences Organized
CEPR/TCD/POMPEU FABRA Annual Symposium in Development Economics
Barcelona, 2025
CEPR/TCD/BREAD/STICERD Annual Joint Symposium in Development Economics 2021
London School of Economics, 2024
New Directions in Anti-poverty Research
Trinity College Dublin, 2022
CEPR/TCD Workshop in Development Economics 2021
Online, 2021
New Directions in Graduation Research
Online, 2020
E-GAP Plenary Meeting
Trinity College Dublin, 2010
Conference on Impact Measurement in Development Aid
Trinity College Dublin, 2009
Strengthening Institutions for Development and Poverty Reduction
Trinity College Dublin, 2008
Newspaper Articles
The Great Cashback Mortgage Trap
Sunday Business Post, Dec 02, 2018
Towards a More Equal Society
Irish Times, Sept 01, 2011
Evolution or Revolution? Prospects for Ireland’s Broadband Transformation
Business and Finance Magazine, 2007
Blogs
Monetary policy’s ‘last mile problem’ and what can be done about it
(with Shane Byrne, Kenneth Devine, Yvonne McCarthy and Christopher Palmer)
EuVox Column, 2026.
Disclosure, sludges, and cashback in the mortgage market
(with Anuj Singh)
EuVox Column, 2018.
The Kenyan financial transformation (2000-2015)
(with Amrik Heyer)
World Bank Blog, 2016.
The Unbanked Four-Fifths: Informality and Barriers to Financial Services in Nigeria
World Bank Blog, 2013.
Is Mobile Banking Breaking the Tyranny of Distance to Bank Infrastructure? Evidence from Kenya
World Bank Blog, 2012.
Policy Reports
Green Growth and Poverty Reduction: Policy Coherence for Pro-poor Growth
OECD Development Co-operation Working Papers No. 14, 2013.
Measuring Policy Coherence for Development: Study on Modernising the Comparability of Donor Contributions Post-2015
(with Niels Keijzer, Eunike Spierings and Alan Matthews)
European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM) Research Report, 2012.
Policy Coherence for Development: Indicators for Ireland
with Alan Matthews
Institute for International Integration Studies Report, 2012.
The Competitiveness of UK Priority Export Sectors
(with Vahagn Galstyan and Alan Matthews), United Kingdom Trade and Investment (UKTI)
Research Paper, 2009.
Ireland’s Annual Competitiveness Challenge 2006
(with Jason Cleary, Adrian Devitt and Ronan Lyons)
Forfás Publication, 2007
The Cost of Business in Ireland 2007
(with Adrian Devitt, Mary Dalton),
Forfás Publication, 2007.
