WORKING PAPERS

The Last Mile of Monetary Policy: Inattention, Reminders, and the Refinancing Channel
with Shane Byrne, Kenneth Devine, Yvonne McCarthy and Christopher Palmer
Forthcoming, Journal of Finance, NBER Working Paper #31043

Promoting Intra-household Collaboration as a Mechanism for Conflict Resolution: Evidence from a Cash-Plus Program
with Tara Bedi, Claire Boxho, Rachael S. Pierotti, Fiona Remnant, and Julia Vaillant
Resubmitted following R&R, Social Science and Medicine

From Awareness to Action? Experimental Evidence of Challenges in Reducing School-Related Gender-Based Violence Throughout a Multi-Component Program in Zambia
with Sophia Friedson-Ridenour, Wei Chang, Menaal Fatima Ebrahim, Anu Jose, Tara Bedi, Musama Obbie, Kahilu Samuyachi, Carla Z Glave Barrantes, Yenny Chavarria Garcia
R&R, Economic Development and Cultural Change, World Bank Policy Research Paper, #11245

Household Frictions and Reaching the Frontier: Experimental Evidence from Malawi
with Tara Bedi and Julia Vaillant
Paper available on request

Cash or Card? Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment to increase Consumer’ Debit Card Use
with Charles Howard, Paolina Medina and Roland Umanan
Trinity Economic Paper #1826

Who Recovers? Gender, Coping Strategies, and the Psychological Costs of Cyclone Idai in Malawi
with Tara Bedi, Anu Jose and Samuel McArdle
Trinity Economic Paper #1726

What Aggregate Measures Conceal: Mixed-Methods Evidence on Women’s Empowerment, Gender Targeting, and Couples Training in Malawi
with Rebekah Avard, Tara Bedi, James Copestake and Fiona Remnant
Trinity Economic Paper #1526

Bargaining, Poverty Stress or Backlash? Reducing Violence Among the Ultra-Poor
with Tara Bedi, Alejandra Ramos and Julia Vaillant
Paper available on request

What Matters for Consumer Credit Choice? Evidence form the Philippine Digital Credit Market
with Paolina Medina, Benjamin Radoc and Roland Umanan
Banke Sentral ng Philippine Discussion Paper No. 2025-09

Buy Now, Spend More, Pay Later, Behavioural Mechanisms of Buy Now Pay Later Products
with Anu Jose, Jane Kelly and Yvonne McCarthy
Central Bank of Ireland Research Paper Series, Vol. 2025, No. 15

Mental Accounting, Spousal Control, and Intra-Household Communication: Evidence from an Experiment in India
with Tara Bedi and Anu Jose
Trinity Economic Paper #1323

Strategies for Reducing Non-Institutional Fraud and Building Trust in a Digital Market Platform
with Shane Byrne, Channing Jang and Daniel Putman
Trinity Economic Paper #TEP1124.

Conned by a Cashback? Disclosure, Nudges and Consumer Rationality in Mortgage Choice
with Anuj Singh
Trinity Economic Paper #TEP1118.

JOURNAL ARTICLES


Understanding Farmer’s Valuation of Agricultural Insurance: Evidence from Viet Nam
with Anuj Singh
Food Policy, Volume 94, July 2020.

Broadening the Global Development Reporting Framework Post 2015: Embracing Policy Coherence and Global Public Goods
European Journal of Development Research
, Volume 28, Issue 1, 2016. 

Policy Coherence for Development: Five Challenges
with Frank Barry and Alan Matthews,
Irish Studies in International Affairs, Volume 21, 207-224, 2010.

The Coherence of Ireland’s Foreign Direct Investment Policy with Development Objectives
with Frank Barry
Trócaire Development Review, 97-113, 2009.


BOOKS

The Kenyan Financial Transformation (2000-2014)
with Amrik Heyer eds.
FSD Kenya, 2015. 

Policy Coherence for Development (PCD): The State of Play in Ireland
with Frank Barry and Alan Matthews
Institute for International Integration Studies, Dublin, 2009.


BOOK CHAPTERS

Equality: Distribution, Poverty and Income Supports
in The Economy of Ireland, 11th Edition, Gill & Macmillan, 2011, 2014, 2017 and 2021.
John O’Hagan and Francis O’Toole (eds.)

Formal Financial Inclusion in Kenya: Understanding the Demand-side Constraints
with Tara Bedi
in The Kenyan Financial Transformation (2000-2014), FSD Kenya, 2015. 
Amrik Heyer and Michael King (eds.)

Measurement of Financial Inclusion: Beyond the Binary Measure
in The Kenyan Financial Transformation (2000-2015), FSD Kenya, 2015. 
Amrik Heyer and Michael King (eds.)

Cause and Effect of Financial Access in Sub-Saharan Africa: Cross Country Evidence from the Finscope Surveys
with Patrick Honohan
in Banking the World: Empirical Foundations of Financial Inclusion, MIT Press, 2013.
Robert Cull, Asli Demirgüç-Kunt and Jonathan Morduch (eds.)

A Conceptual Framework for Financial Inclusion and Recent Evidence for Sub-Saharan Africa
in Enacting Globalization: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on International Integration, Palgrave, 2013. 

Ireland’s Treasure by National Competitiveness
in Next Generation Ireland, Blackhall Publishing, 2011.
Ed Burke and Ronan Lyons (eds.)