My research focuses on developing microsimulation models to estimate the effects of social policy reforms on future income inequality and poverty, looking in particular at behavioural effects.

I am affiliated with the Institute for Futures Studies in Stockholm, where I am linked to the research theme Economic Development and Intergenerational Distribution in an Ageing Society.

I am also pursuing a PhD in Economics at the National University of Ireland, Galway.

My research interests include public economics, pension systems, microsimulation modelling, household behaviour, economic demography, and international development.

You can read more about my research and download a selection of my papers and presentations.

In addition, I regularly take on consulting assignments at the intersection of international development and public economics.

Latest, Spring 2010
New working paper: 'Poverty Impact of State Pension Reform on the Elderly: an Analysis of Reform Proposals in the 2007 Irish Green Paper', by Cathal O’Donoghue and me. (Combat Poverty Agency Working Paper Series 09/09)

The IFSIM Handbook (Working Paper, Institute for Futures Studies, 2009:7) explains the agent based simulation model that I have conceived and co-built for the Institute for Futures Studies. The aim of the model is to include main consumption and production patterns over the life-cycle and thus be able to test demo-economic interactions.