THE ECONOMICS OF DISABILITY
IRISH SOCIETY
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THE ECONOMICS OF DISABILITY
Insights from Irish research
Edited by John Cullinan,
Sen Lyons and Brian Nolan
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Contents
1 The role of economic analysis in supporting disability policy
John Cullinan, Sen Lyons and Brian Nolan
2 Disability, social inclusion and poverty
Brian Nolan
3 Disability and the labour market
Brian Nolan
4 The private economic costs of adult disability
John Cullinan and Sen Lyons
5 A socioeconomic profile of childhood disability
John Cullinan and Aine Roddy
6 Resource allocation for students with special educational needs and disabilities
Denise Frawley, Joanne Banks and Selina McCoy
7 Ageing, disability and policy
Eamon OShea
8 The economics of dementia
Paddy Gillespie and Sheelah Connolly
9 The costs of community living for people with intellectual disabilities
Aoife Callan
10 The economics of mental health services
Brendan Kennelly
11 The socioeconomic determinants of mental stress
David Madden
Figures
Tables
Contributors
Editors
John Cullinan is a Lecturer in Economics at the National University of Ireland (NUI), Galway. He completed his doctoral studies at NUI Galway and holds Masters degrees in econometrics and economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science and University College Dublin (UCD), respectively. John previously worked as a Lecturer in Economics at the University of Limerick, NUI Maynooth and UCD, as a Consultant with Indecon Economic Consultants and he was a Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley in 2008. Johns research interests lie in the application of econometric and spatial modelling techniques in the fields of health economics and spatial economics. He has a long-held interest in the economics of disability.
Sen Lyons is an Associate Research Professor at the Economic and Social Research Institute and an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at Trinity College Dublin (TCD). Formerly he was a partner at Indecon Economic Consultants, a senior adviser for Irelands telecoms regulator and a Managing Consultant at London Economics. Sen holds a PhD in Economics (TCD), an MPhil in Economics (University of Cambridge) and a BA in History (TCD). He specialises in applied microeconomics, with a particular focus on regulation, consumer demand analysis and policy modelling and he has a long-standing research interest in the cost of disability and the economics of long-term care. Sen is Honorary Secretary of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland.
Brian Nolan is currently Principal of the College of Human Sciences in University College Dublin and has been Professor of Public Policy there since 2007. He previously worked at the Economic and Social Research Institute and the Central Bank of Ireland. He has a BA in Economics and History from UCD, an MA in Economics from McMaster University (Ontario) and a doctorate in economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science. His main areas of research are poverty, income inequality, the economics of social policy and health economics. He co-edited the Handbook of Economic Inequality (2008) and The Great Recession and the Distribution of Household Income (2013) for Oxford University Press, which also published Poverty and Deprivation in Europe, co-authored with Christopher T. Whelan (2011).
Contributors
Joanne Banks works in research on special educational needs at the Economic and Social Research Institute. She is particularly interested in the experiences of students with special needs in mainstream education, special needs identification and the ways in which resources are assigned to children with special needs.
Aoife Callan is a Health Research Board-funded Health Economics Postgraduate Research Fellow based at the Discipline of General Practice and Discipline of Economics at National University of Ireland, Galway. Her research interests include health and social care economics, health technology assessment, non-market valuation techniques and applied microeconometrics.
Sheelah Connolly is a Research Fellow within the Academic Unit of Neurology, Trinity College Dublin. She was awarded a PhD in Epidemiology from Queens University Belfast and an MSc in Health Economics from the University of York. Her research interests lie in the social determinants of health and the economics of ageing.
Denise Frawley is a Research Assistant at the Economic and Social Research Institute. She is currently working on a longitudinal project that will track the experiences, progress and outcomes for a cohort of students with special educational needs in primary and post-primary schools in Ireland.
