Browsing by Author "O'Donoghue, Cathal"
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Assessing the geographic representativity of farm accountancy data
Green, Stuart; O'Donoghue, Cathal (MDPI AG, 2013-02-06)The environment affects agriculture, via soils, weather, etc. and agriculture affects the environment locally at farm level and via its impact on climate change. Locating agriculture within its spatial environment is thus ... -
Assessing the Impact of Pensions Policy Reform in Ireland: the Case of Increasing the Pension Age
O'Donoghue, Cathal (National University of Ireland, Galway, 2004)Although demographic ageing will affect Ireland later than many EU countries, by 2050 it will result in significant pressures on the public pension system. Recent reform in Ireland has attempted to address these pressures ... -
Cohabitation in Ireland: evidence from survey data
O'Donoghue, Cathal (National University of Ireland, Galway, 2005)Cohabitation has grown strongly in Ireland over the last decade. We use large-scale surveys to characterise its extent and nature. We find it has almost tripled in incidence between 1994 and 2002. It is associated with ... -
Cost per unit abated for selected nitrogen mitigation strategies on Irish farms
Chyzheuskaya, Aksana; O'Donoghue, Cathal; Ryan, Mary; O'Neill, Stephen (NUI Galway, 2018)With the initial deadline identified by the Water Framework Directive (Directive 2000/60/EC) has passed in 2015 and new one set out in 2027, policymakers face increasing pressure to introduce new regulations to achieve ... -
Dairy and grassland economics in an era of possible expansion
Gillespie, Patrick R. (2015-10-14)Thesis focuses on the efficiency and the Total Factor Productivity (TFP) which is associated with the dairy enterprise of Specialist Dairy farms. The approach uses econometric methods to generate its measures. Special ... -
Do farmers in Agri-Environmental schemes make appropriate ecological choices for the habitats on their farms? Modelling the biodiversity undertakings chosen within the Irish Rural Environment Protection Scheme
Murphy, Geraldine; Hynes, Stephen; Murphy, Eithne; O'Donoghue, Cathal; Green, Stuart (National University of Ireland, Galway, 2011-07)Farmers participating in agri-environmental schemes (AESs) that are aimed at protecting biodiversity should ideally make decisions relating to the ecological management of their farms based on the habitat types found on ... -
An Economic Evaluation of Wave Energy Conversion Devices
Farrell, Anthony Niall (2012-11-28)The ambition to achieve an environmentally sustainable, cost-effective and secure future energy supply has motivated greater use of renewable resources for electricity generation. The majority of renewable capacity to date ... -
The economics of agri-environment schemes in Ireland: Essays on design and participation
Cullen, Paula (NUI Galway, 2021-08-28)Addressing the degradation of the environment has become increasingly important on a global scale. With agriculture representing a large portion of land, pressure is on policymakers to ensure that farmers are contributing ... -
Eliciting Individual Preferences for Pension Reform
Fourati, Yosr Abid; O'Donoghue, Cathal (National University of Ireland, Galway, 2009-09)Pension systems have recently been under scrutiny because of the expected population ageing threatening its sustainability. This paper¿s contribution to the debate is from a political economic perspective as it uses data ... -
Estimating Catchment Area Population Indicators Using Network Analysis
Cullinan, John; Hynes, Stephen; O'Donoghue, Cathal (Taylor & Francis, 2008-11)This paper proposes an approach to estimating catchment area population indicators (CAPIs) using geographic information system (GIS)-based network analysis. Specifically, it considers how 'GeoDirectory', a geodatabase ... -
Evaluating binary alignment methods in microsimulation models
Li, Jinjing; O'Donoghue, Cathal (Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 2014-01-01)Alignment is a widely adopted technique in the field of microsimulation for social and economic policy research. However, limited research has been devoted to understanding the statistical properties of the various alignment ... -
External Shocks in a Small Open Economy: A CGE-Microsimulation Analysis
Ahmed, Vaqar; O'Donoghue, Cathal (National University of Ireland, Galway, 2009)This paper studies the impact of changes in the external balance of a developing economy (Pakistan). We explain that the economic growth achieved during the past decade is highly dependent on the improvements in external ... -
Farm economic sustainability in the european union: a pilot study
O'Donoghue, Cathal; Devisme, Simon; Ryan, Mary; Conneely, Ricky; Gillespie, Patrick; Vrolijk, Hans (Research Institute of Agricultural Economics, 2016-12-01)The measurement of farm economic sustainability has received intermittent academic interest in recent times, while the conceptual discussions are often quite limited. Moreover, this concept receives more attention at periods ... -
Farm Income Mobility and Inequality in Ireland 1994-2001
Hynes, Stephen; O'Donoghue, Cathal (National University of Ireland, Galway, 2004)This paper uses eight years of data of the National Farm Survey (NFS) to analyse the statics and dynamics of the farm earnings distribution in the period 1994 to 2001, and asks the question: is the Irish farming sector ... -
The Generation Game: All Gain No Pain? Ageing, Intergenerational Equity and Generational Accounts
O'Donoghue, Cathal (National University of Ireland, Galway, 2002)This paper tries to quantify the degree of intergenerational redistribution in Irish public expenditure. The development of a large public debt in the space of two decades, its rapid elimination and potential rise again ... -
The impact of farmers' implementation decisions on environmental effectiveness in the Rural Environment Protection Scheme (REPS)
Murphy, Geraldine (2013-12)The primary objective of this thesis is to investigate the impact of farmers' implementation decisions on the effectiveness of the Rural Environment Protection Scheme (REPS). Three separate empirical papers are used to ... -
Integrated assessment of sheep production systems and the agricultural value chain
Kilcline, Kevin (NUI Galway, 2018-07-02)This thesis describes the development of an integrated, farm level, bioeconomic systems model of Irish sheep production using nationally representative data from the National Farm Survey (NFS). A systems approach is applied ... -
Irish farm succession and inheritance; an examination of farmers’ economic decision-making strategies as socially-constructed risk assessment
Leonard, Brian (NUI Galway, 2019-03-28)Intergenerational farm transfer is increasingly viewed as fundamental to the sustainability and development of global agriculture, with an expectation that younger farmers, with more effective and efficient production ... -
Liam2: a new open source development tool for discrete-time dynamic microsimulation models
de Menten, Gaëtan; Dekkers, Gijs; Bryon, Geert; Liégeois, Philippe; O'Donoghue, Cathal (Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 2014-01-01)Most existing microsimulation models have been developed by separate (teams of) researchers. The drawback of each team working on its own is that they have to put a lot of time and effort in the customary development of ... -
Measuring public preferences for the conservation of the traditional farm landscape
Howley, Peter; Hynes, Stephen; O'Donoghue, Cathal (National University of Ireland, Galway, 2011-07)This paper explores individuals' attitudes towards the traditional farm landscape. Results from a Generalised Tobit Interval model of willingness to pay for traditional farm landscape protection suggest that individuals ...