Professor Liam Delaney
SIRE Professor of Economics
Background
Liam Delaney is SIRE Professor of Economics at the Scottish Institute for Research in Economics and Stirling University and Director of the Scottish Graduate Programme in Economics PhD programme. Previously, he was Deputy Director and a senior researcher in the UCD Geary Institute, and a lecturer holding a tenured appointment with the UCD School of Public Health and Population Science and the UCD School of Economics. He lectured econometrics, health economics and behavioural economics in University College Dublin and supervised post-graduate students in economics and public health. In 2009, he received the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland's Barrington Medal. He was a 2010 Fulbright Fellow and Center for Health and Well-Being fellow at Princeton University.
Research Interests
My general area of expertise is in behavioural economics and the overlap between economics and psychology. I am happy to talk with students about pretty much any research in this area. I am particularly interested in talking to potential PhD students interested in the areas below.My three main current research interests are: (i) the effect of early life conditions on later health and psychological well-being; (ii) the measurement and economic determinants of adult well-being, in particular the link between unemployment and well-being; (iii) the nature of human adult time preferences, including the evolution of time preferences over the life-cycle, deviations from standard inter-temporal choice models, effect of stress on temporal decision-making, biological basis of temporal decision-making.
Selected Publications
Delaney, L., Kapteyn, A., and Smith., J.P. (2011 in press) “Regional Determinants of Student Drinking Behaviour and Subjective Thresholds” Review of the Economics of the Household.Delaney, L., and Doyle, O., (2011 in press). “Socioeconomic differences in early childhood time preferences”, Journal of Economic Psychology.
Delaney, L., Harmon, C., & Redmond, C. (2011). Parental education, grade attainment and earnings expectations among university students, Economics of Education Review, Available online 9 April 2011.
Van Soest, A., Delaney, L., Harmon, C., Kapteyn, A., & Smith, J. (2011). Validating the use of anchoring vignettes for the correction of response scale differences in subjective questions. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society – Series A. Vol. 174(3), pp. 575-595.
Delaney, L., McGovern, M., & Smith, J.P (2011). From Angela's Ashes to the Celtic Tiger: Early Life Conditions and Adult Health in Ireland. Journal of Health Economics, 30(1), pp. 1-10.
Daly, M., Delaney, L., Doran, P., & MacLachlan, M. 2011. The Role of Awakening Cortisol and Psychological Distress in Diurnal Variations in Affect: A Day Reconstruction Study. Emotion, 11(3), pp. 524-32.
Walshe, C., Boner, K., Bourke, J., Hone, R., Lynch, M., Delaney, L. and Phelan, D. (2010).Catheter-related blood stream infection (CRBSI) in TPN patients: Benefit of an educational programme and multimodal expression of CRBSI incidence. Clinical Governance: An International Journal, Vol. 15 No. 4, pp. 292-301.
Kennedy, J., Delaney, L., Hudson, E., McGloin, A., and Wall, P. (2010). Public perceptions of the dioxin incident in Irish pork. Journal of Risk Research, vol. 13, no.7, pp. 937-949.
Daly, M., Delaney, L., Doran, P., Harmon, C., and MacLachLan, M., (2010). Naturalistic monitoring of the affect-heart rate relationship: A Day Reconstruction Study. Health Psychology., vol. 29(2), pp. 186-195.
Comerford, D., Delaney, L., and Harmon, C., (2010). Experimental Tests of Survey Responses to Expenditure Questions. Fiscal Studies, vol. 30(3), pp. 419-433.
Sweeney, L., Quinlivan, L., Malone, K., O’Loughlin, E., and Delaney, L., (2009). Suicide Research in Ireland. Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine,Volume 26, No. 3.
Daly, M., Delaney, L., & Harmon, C. 2009. Psychological and Biological Foundations of Time Preference. Journal of the European Economic Association, MIT Press, 7(2-3), pp. 659-669.
Delaney, L., (2009). Well-Being Under Conditions of Abundance: Ireland 1990-2007. Journal of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, pp. 205-220.
Delaney, L., Doyle, O., McKenzie, K., & Wall, P. (2009). The Distribution of Well-Being in Ireland. Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine, vol. 26(3).
McGloin, A., Delaney, L., Hudson, E., & Wall, P. (2009). Nutrition communication: the challenge of effective food risk communication. Symposium on ‘The challenge of translating nutrition research into public health nutrition’. Proceedings of the Nutrition Society. 68, pp. 135-141.
Delaney, L., Newman C., and Nolan, B. (2008). Reference Dependent Financial Satisfaction over the course of the Celtic Tiger: a panel analysis utilising the Living in Ireland Survey 1994-2001. Economic and Social Review.
Delaney, L., Harmon C., and Wall, P. (2008).Behavioural Economics and Irish Drinking: Evidence from a College Study. Economic Inquiry. 46,1, pp. 29-36.
Delaney, L., and O’Toole, F. (2008).Individual, Household and Gender Preferences for Social Transfers. Journal of Economic Psychology, 29, pp. 348-359.
Delaney, L., and O’Toole, F. (2008) Preferences for Specific Social Welfare Expenditures in Ireland. Applied Economics Letters, 15, pp. 985-989.
