Cathal O’donoghue
Biographic Data
| ID | 359379 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cathal O’donoghue |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cathal |
| FAMILY NAME | O’donoghue |
| SIGNATURE | O’DONOGHUE C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ollscoil na Gaillimhe – University of Galway |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3713-5366 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 45 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 121 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 45 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Consumption Patterns, Inflation, and Household Welfare
Equivalence scales are a central component of distributional analysis. They adjust household incomes for size and composition, shaping poverty and inequality measurement. Most work relies on the modified OECD scale from the mid-1990s, despite substantial changes in consumption patterns since. We revisit equivalence scales for 23 European countries using a demand model based on the linear expenditure system and harmonised Household Budget Survey m…
A novel approach to undertake a socio-economic impact assessment of a major urban regeneration project
Integrating human-centered AI for land use policy
Policymakers often struggle with information overload from vast technical documentation, hindering effective evidence-based decision-making. This study explores how a human-centered artificial intelligence model was fine-tuned to analyze agricultural interventions within international development projects, providing a methodological foundation to support the synthesis of complex evidence for more informed land use policy formulation. Engaging dom…
Psychological factors that influence farmers' intention to adopt climate resilience agriculture
A natural experiment
This study surveyed 292 visitors to eight recreational forests during the COVID-19 pandemic to investigate whether the pandemic had a stimulatory effect on visitation rates. An increase in visitation was noted, with existing visitors visiting more frequently. Many indicated that they planned to continue to visit more and the enjoyment they gained from the recreational experience was high. Few novel visitors were encountered. Using logistic regres…
Farmland afforestation
Forestry is increasingly seen as having a multiplicity of functions, some of which may lead to tensions between the preferences of different forestry stakeholders. One expression of these differing preferences is in the area of optimal rotation length. This paper models the optimal rotation lengths of different aspects of the forestry system – the forest owner, the timber processor, the carbon sequestered, and the social value. A microsimulation …
Randomized national land management strategies for net-zero emissions
The Covid-19 resilience of a continental welfare regime - nowcasting the distributional impact of the crisis
The online version contains supplementary material available at doi:10.1007/s10888-021-09524-4
Understanding planting preferences – A case-study of the afforestation choices of farmers in Ireland
Examining the relationship between farmer participation in an agri-environment scheme and the quantity and quality of semi-natural habitats on Irish farms
Novel welfare state responses in times of crises
Using microsimulation tools, we explore the social policy responses to the Great Recession and the COVID-19 crisis, and their impact on preserving living standards in Ireland. During the Great Recession, the focus was on cost reduction. By contrast, during the COVID-19 crisis, the focus was on mitigating the impact on household incomes. In addition, an innovation in joint public and private responses emerged through social partnership. We find a …
The Gender Gap in Income and the Covid-19 Pandemic in Ireland
The gender income gap is large and well documented in many countries. Recent research shows that it is mainly driven by differences in working patterns between men and women but also by wage differences. The tax-benefit system cushions the gender income gap by redistributing it between men and women. The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in unprecedented levels of unemployment in 2020 in many countries, with some suggestions that men and women have …
Drivers of household and agricultural adaptation to climate change in Vietnam
Vietnam accounts for 6% of global rice production and is exceptionally vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. This study utilises a mixed model ordinal logistic regression on farm household data collected in the Mekong and Red River deltas with the goal of quantifying their impacts on 'planned', in anticipation of gradual climate change, and 'response', to deal with the impacts of sudden onset change, adaptations. The study highlights incre…
Addressing the challenge of wood mobilisation through a systemic innovation lens
Efficiency benchmarking of Irish and North Atlantic Spanish ports
Alternative measures of Family Farm Viability – Incorporating gap measures
The spatial impact of rural economic change on river water quality
This paper, using Ireland as a case study, examines the relationship between rural economic activities and river water quality. The stipulation from the EU water framework directive (WFD) that all surface waters in the EU must be of ‘good ecological status’ necessitates a quantitative understanding of the major determinants of water quality. Within this context, this paper combines a number of spatial datasets relating to agricultural, land use, …
What Drives Cross-Country Health Inequality in the EU? Unpacking the Role of Socio-economic Factors
Despite comparable living standards and a nearly universal healthcare provision, there are large cross-country differences in population health in the European Union. More than half of this variation remains unexplained after accounting for macro-level factors. This paper investigates how individual-level differences in demographic characteristics, education, labour market factors and income shape the prevalence of poor self-assessed health in th…
A comparison of environmental and economic sustainability across seafood and livestock product value chains
Accounting for differences in income inequality across countries
This paper presents a framework for studying international differences in the distribution of household income. Integrating micro-econometric and micro-simulation approaches in a decomposition analysis, it quantifies the role of tax-benefit systems, employment and occupational structures, labour and financial market returns, and demographic composition in accounting for differences in income inequality across countries. Building upon EUROMOD (the…
Livestock exclusion from watercourses
Value transfer using spatial microsimulation modelling
The empirical findings regarding the transfer validity of benefit transfer methods for environmental policy evaluation have been mixed. In this paper the value function from a contingent valuation exercise that estimates the value to the Irish general public of achieving good ecological status, as specified in the Water Framework Directive, are transferred to a spatial microsimulated population within individual water management units (WMUs) acro…
The impact of forestry as a land use on water quality outcomes
The adoption of the EU land use, land use change and forestry (LULUCF) regulation ensures that for the first time afforestation in Europe will contribute toward the achievement of European Union (EU) climate change commitments under the Paris Agreement. However, increased afforestation in Europe could have unintended environmental trade-offs that may hamper the achievement of EU Water Framework Directive targets. While much of the previous forest…
Risky (farm) business
Impact of farmer self-identity and attitudes on participation in agri-environment schemes
Functional land management
Sustainable food production has re-emerged at the top of the global policy agenda, driven by two challenges: (1) the challenge to produce enough food to feed a growing world population and (2) the challenge to make more efficient and prudent use of the world's natural resources. These challenges have led to a societal expectation that the agricultural sector increase productivity, and at the same time provide environmental ‘ecosystem services’ su…
Policy drivers of farm succession and inheritance
Understanding farmers’ intentions to follow a nutrient management plan using the theory of planned behaviour
How regressive are indirect taxes? A microsimulation analysis for five European countries
Shifting the tax burden from labor to consumption is proposed in many developed countries as a way to make the tax system more incentive compatible. This article deals with the simulation of such a policy change to sharpen the distributional picture. Expenditures are imputed into the EUROMOD microsimulation program. Then social security contributions are lowered and the standard VAT rate is increased to maintain government revenue neutrality. The…
An investigation into the type of farmer who chose to participate in Rural Environment Protection Scheme (Reps) and the role of institutional change in influencing scheme effectiveness
Novel welfare state responses in times of crises
Using microsimulation tools, we explore the social policy responses to the Great Recession and the COVID-19 crisis, and their impact on preserving living standards in Ireland. During the Great Recession, the focus was on cost reduction. By contrast, during the COVID-19 crisis, the focus was on mitigating the impact on household incomes. In addition, an innovation in joint public and private responses emerged through social partnership. We find a …
Risky (farm) business
Impact of farmer self-identity and attitudes on participation in agri-environment schemes
Addressing the challenge of wood mobilisation through a systemic innovation lens
A participatory approach for comparing stakeholders’ evaluation of P loss mitigation options in a high ecological status river catchment
Reforming Family Transfers in Southern Europe
The drive to reduce child poverty is of particular interest in southern Europe, where public assistance to low-income families with children is often meagre or not available at all. The paper examines the effect of income transfers to families in Greece, Italy, Spain and Portugal using a benefit-tax model. The distributional impact of actual programmes is shown to be weak, hence the scope for reform great. As an illustration, the European benefit…
The Covid-19 resilience of a continental welfare regime - nowcasting the distributional impact of the crisis
The online version contains supplementary material available at doi:10.1007/s10888-021-09524-4
Accounting for differences in income inequality across countries
This paper presents a framework for studying international differences in the distribution of household income. Integrating micro-econometric and micro-simulation approaches in a decomposition analysis, it quantifies the role of tax-benefit systems, employment and occupational structures, labour and financial market returns, and demographic composition in accounting for differences in income inequality across countries. Building upon EUROMOD (the…
Microsimulation of Social Policy in the European Union
While policies to eliminate poverty remain the responsibility of member states, the European Union may have a role to play in setting minimum standards. This paper explores the implications of a European Minimum Pension. A prototype Europe–wide tax benefit microsimulation model is used to examine the distributional impact of the reform, asking how far such a policy is ‘targeted’ on the poorest pensioners. We conclude that the formulation of polic…
The Gender Gap in Income and the Covid-19 Pandemic in Ireland
The gender income gap is large and well documented in many countries. Recent research shows that it is mainly driven by differences in working patterns between men and women but also by wage differences. The tax-benefit system cushions the gender income gap by redistributing it between men and women. The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in unprecedented levels of unemployment in 2020 in many countries, with some suggestions that men and women have …
Alternative measures of Family Farm Viability – Incorporating gap measures
The impact of forestry as a land use on water quality outcomes
The adoption of the EU land use, land use change and forestry (LULUCF) regulation ensures that for the first time afforestation in Europe will contribute toward the achievement of European Union (EU) climate change commitments under the Paris Agreement. However, increased afforestation in Europe could have unintended environmental trade-offs that may hamper the achievement of EU Water Framework Directive targets. While much of the previous forest…
Randomized national land management strategies for net-zero emissions
Understanding planting preferences – A case-study of the afforestation choices of farmers in Ireland
Examining the relationship between farmer participation in an agri-environment scheme and the quantity and quality of semi-natural habitats on Irish farms
What Drives Cross-Country Health Inequality in the EU? Unpacking the Role of Socio-economic Factors
Despite comparable living standards and a nearly universal healthcare provision, there are large cross-country differences in population health in the European Union. More than half of this variation remains unexplained after accounting for macro-level factors. This paper investigates how individual-level differences in demographic characteristics, education, labour market factors and income shape the prevalence of poor self-assessed health in th…
Livestock exclusion from watercourses
Regional income and wave energy deployment in Ireland
The impact of unemployment on the welfare of mobile workers in the European Union
This article aims to assess the impact of the social security coordination policy on the welfare of mobile workers, defined here as the EU citizens who had previously worked in another EU country than the one where they currently reside. The following research question is investigated: "To whom does a mobile worker need to be compared: to a worker in their country of residence (domestic) or to an earner in their country of employment (mobile), an…
Microsimulation of Social Policy in the European Union
While policies to eliminate poverty remain the responsibility of member states, the European Union may have a role to play in setting minimum standards. This paper explores the implications of a European Minimum Pension. A prototype Europe–wide tax benefit microsimulation model is used to examine the distributional impact of the reform, asking how far such a policy is ‘targeted’ on the poorest pensioners. We conclude that the formulation of polic…
Child Poverty and Family Transfers in Southern Europe
The drive to reduce child poverty is of particular interest in southern Europe, where the subsidiary role of the State in matters of family policy has implied that programmes of public assistance to poor families with children are often meagre or not available at all. The paper examines the effect of family transfers (used broadly to include contributory family allowances, non-contributory child benefits and tax credits or allowances) on child po…
Reforming Family Transfers in Southern Europe
The drive to reduce child poverty is of particular interest in southern Europe, where public assistance to low-income families with children is often meagre or not available at all. The paper examines the effect of income transfers to families in Greece, Italy, Spain and Portugal using a benefit-tax model. The distributional impact of actual programmes is shown to be weak, hence the scope for reform great. As an illustration, the European benefit…
Modelling habitat conservation and participation in agri-environmental schemes
Examining access to GP services in rural Ireland using microsimulation analysis
This paper analyses the effect accessibility has on General Practitioner (GP) utilisation rates at the sub‐national level for Ireland. Specifically, the aim of this paper is to estimate whether there is an urban–rural differential in GP utilisation rates. We do this by simulating micro‐level healthcare data. Using this synthetic data, simple logit models are employed to estimate the likelihood that individuals in different jurisdictions will atte…
The citizen versus consumer distinction
How regressive are indirect taxes? A microsimulation analysis for five European countries
Shifting the tax burden from labor to consumption is proposed in many developed countries as a way to make the tax system more incentive compatible. This article deals with the simulation of such a policy change to sharpen the distributional picture. Expenditures are imputed into the EUROMOD microsimulation program. Then social security contributions are lowered and the standard VAT rate is increased to maintain government revenue neutrality. The…
Assessing the compatibility of farmland biodiversity and habitats to the specifications of agri-environmental schemes using a multinomial logit approach
Using spatial microsimulation to account for demographic and spatial factors in environmental benefit transfer
The impact of unemployment on the welfare of mobile workers in the European Union
This article aims to assess the impact of the social security coordination policy on the welfare of mobile workers, defined here as the EU citizens who had previously worked in another EU country than the one where they currently reside. The following research question is investigated: "To whom does a mobile worker need to be compared: to a worker in their country of residence (domestic) or to an earner in their country of employment (mobile), an…
Irish Citizens’ Attitudes to Pension Reform and Redistribution
In order to assess people's preferences regarding potential reforms of the Irish state pension system, we surveyed a sample of the Irish adult population about their opinion on a selection of measures and issues related to the redistributive principles and parameters of the pension scheme. Even though very few people are well informed about the pension system, we observe a kind of homogeneity regarding perceptions about the way public pension ben…
Functional land management
Sustainable food production has re-emerged at the top of the global policy agenda, driven by two challenges: (1) the challenge to produce enough food to feed a growing world population and (2) the challenge to make more efficient and prudent use of the world's natural resources. These challenges have led to a societal expectation that the agricultural sector increase productivity, and at the same time provide environmental ‘ecosystem services’ su…
Evaluating Binary Alignment Methods in Microsimulation Models
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 algorithms currently in use. This paper discusses and evaluates six common alignment algorithms used in the dynamic microsimulation through a set of theoretical and statistical criteria proposed in the earlier literature (e.g…
Liam2
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 fairly general simulation tools. Hence, economies of scale cannot be exploited, which makes microsimulation models even more expensive than strictly necessary. The objective of this paper is to present LIAM2, a free and open sourc…
Nowcasting in Microsimulation Models
In this paper, we survey the use of nowcasting methods in Microsimulation models. These nowcasting methods differ in a number of respects to the more established methods of forecasting. The main distinction is that while forecasting extrapolates from current data to estimate the future, the methods of nowcasting extrapolate from data of the recent past to reflect the present situation. In this paper, we undertake a survey of a number of modelling…
An investigation into the type of farmer who chose to participate in Rural Environment Protection Scheme (Reps) and the role of institutional change in influencing scheme effectiveness
Policy drivers of farm succession and inheritance
A participatory approach for comparing stakeholders’ evaluation of P loss mitigation options in a high ecological status river catchment
Regional income and wave energy deployment in Ireland
Understanding farmers’ intentions to follow a nutrient management plan using the theory of planned behaviour
A comparison of environmental and economic sustainability across seafood and livestock product value chains
Accounting for differences in income inequality across countries
This paper presents a framework for studying international differences in the distribution of household income. Integrating micro-econometric and micro-simulation approaches in a decomposition analysis, it quantifies the role of tax-benefit systems, employment and occupational structures, labour and financial market returns, and demographic composition in accounting for differences in income inequality across countries. Building upon EUROMOD (the…
Livestock exclusion from watercourses
Value transfer using spatial microsimulation modelling
The empirical findings regarding the transfer validity of benefit transfer methods for environmental policy evaluation have been mixed. In this paper the value function from a contingent valuation exercise that estimates the value to the Irish general public of achieving good ecological status, as specified in the Water Framework Directive, are transferred to a spatial microsimulated population within individual water management units (WMUs) acro…
The impact of forestry as a land use on water quality outcomes
The adoption of the EU land use, land use change and forestry (LULUCF) regulation ensures that for the first time afforestation in Europe will contribute toward the achievement of European Union (EU) climate change commitments under the Paris Agreement. However, increased afforestation in Europe could have unintended environmental trade-offs that may hamper the achievement of EU Water Framework Directive targets. While much of the previous forest…
Economics (38 works) · Geography (25 works) · Business (22 works) · Ecology (16 works) · Environmental resource management (16 works) · Agriculture (14 works) · Microsimulation (13 works) · demographic modeling and climate adaptation (12 works) · Natural resource economics (12 works) · Environmental Science (11 works)