Olive Sweetman
Biographic Data
| ID | 5737683 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Olive Sweetman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Olive |
| FAMILY NAME | Sweetman |
| SIGNATURE | SWEETMAN O |
| AFFILIATIONS | National University of Ireland, Maynooth |
| ORCID | 0009-0003-0068-174X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Good schools or good students? The importance of selectivity for school rankings
This paper uses a rich set of student background characteristics to estimate the value added of second-level schools in Ireland. We show that there is a considerable degree of reranking of schools when we move from analysing raw outcomes to value added; in many cases the best performing schools in raw terms are not the best in value-added terms. We show that, contrary to popular perception, fee-paying schools do not add higher value than other sc…
How Important are Firms in Explaining Wage Changes During a Recession
During the Great Recession, many Irish workers experienced nominal earnings reductions, with about 50% of private sector employees receiving pay cuts at the height of the crisis. However, at the same time, a substantial minority of workers continued to receive pay increases. In this paper we use a unique dataset containing earnings on every worker in Ireland to examine the relative roles of worker and firm characteristics in explaining this heter…
Identification of the covariance structure of earnings using the GMM estimator
The effects of measurement error and omitted variables when using transition matrices to measure intergenerational mobility
The effects of measurement error and omitted variables when using transition matrices to measure intergenerational mobility
Identification of the covariance structure of earnings using the GMM estimator
How Important are Firms in Explaining Wage Changes During a Recession
During the Great Recession, many Irish workers experienced nominal earnings reductions, with about 50% of private sector employees receiving pay cuts at the height of the crisis. However, at the same time, a substantial minority of workers continued to receive pay increases. In this paper we use a unique dataset containing earnings on every worker in Ireland to examine the relative roles of worker and firm characteristics in explaining this heter…
Good schools or good students? The importance of selectivity for school rankings
This paper uses a rich set of student background characteristics to estimate the value added of second-level schools in Ireland. We show that there is a considerable degree of reranking of schools when we move from analysing raw outcomes to value added; in many cases the best performing schools in raw terms are not the best in value-added terms. We show that, contrary to popular perception, fee-paying schools do not add higher value than other sc…
Economics (4 works) · Earnings (3 works) · Mathematics (3 works) · Statistics (3 works) · Accounting (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Econometrics (2 works) · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality (2 works) · Academic achievement (1 work) · Chemistry (1 work)