Irene Mosca

Research Fellow

National University of Ireland, Maynooth

irene.mosca@mu.ie

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Research Interests

Irene Mosca is a lecturer in Economics in Maynooth University, Ireland. She holds a Ph.D in Economics from the University of Strathclyde (Glasgow, UK). From 2010-2018, she worked with The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA), in Trinity College Dublin, coordinating the economics domain and chairing the socioeconomic research group.

Irene has established a strong record of research and published articles in international peer-reviewed journals, including Demography, Oxford Economic Papers, the Journal of Population Economics, Labour Economics, Economics Letters, the Journal of Economic Psychology, Economics and Human Biology and the International Journal of Public Health. Irene’s research has covered a wide range of topics, including: (return) migration and mental health; obesity and employment; retirement and cognition; personality and wealth accumulation; and the long-term effects of the Irish Marriage Bar.

Irene is an Executive Committee Member of the Irish Society for Women in Economics (ISWE) and a research fellow at the IZA Institute for Study of Labor and the Global Labor Organisation (GLO).

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16767

Heterogeneous Effects of Blood Pressure Screening

Fabrice Kämpfen, Irene Mosca

published in: Economics Letters, 2024, 242, 11845

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15062

The Long-Term Effects of In-Utero Exposure to Rubella

Irene Mosca, Anne Nolan

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13153

Does Retirement Affect Voluntary Work Provision? Evidence from England, Ireland and the U.S.

Peter Eibich, Angelo Lorenti, Irene Mosca

published in: Labour Economics, 2020, 76, 102185

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12301

The Long-Term Consequences of the Irish Marriage Bar

Irene Mosca, Robert E. Wright

published in: Economic and Social Review, 2020, 51 (1), 1-34

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11414

Is Personality Endogenous? Evidence from Ireland

Irene Mosca, Robert E. Wright

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11100

Working, Volunteering and Mental Health in the Later Years

Irene Mosca, Robert E. Wright

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11085

Maternal Employment and Child Outcomes: Evidence from the Irish Marriage Bar

Irene Mosca, Vincent O'Sullivan, Robert E. Wright

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9835

Use It or Lose It: Irish Evidence

Irene Mosca, Robert E. Wright

published as 'Effect of Retirement on Cognition: Evidence From the Irish Marriage Bar' in: Demography, 2018, 55 (4), 1317- 1341

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8723

The Impact of Voluntary and Involuntary Retirement on Mental Health: Evidence from Older Irish Adults

Irene Mosca, Alan Barrett

published in: Journal of Mental Health Policy and Economics, 2016, 19, 33-44

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8037

The Impact of Adult Child Emigration on the Mental Health of Older Parents

Irene Mosca, Alan Barrett

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2016, 29 (3), 687-719

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7596

(Lack of) Pension Knowledge

Alan Barrett, Irene Mosca, Brendan J. Whelan

published as 'How Well-informed are Pension Scheme Members on their Future Pension Benefits?: Evidence from Ireland' in: Journal of Aging and Social Policy, 2015, 27(4), 295-313

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6878

Exploring the Early-life Causes and Later-life Consequences of Migration through a Longitudinal Study on Ageing

Alan Barrett, Irene Mosca

revised version published as 'Early-life Causes and Later-life Consequences of Migration: Evidence from Older Irish Adults' in: Journal of Population Ageing, 2013, 6 (1), 29-45

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6331

Social Isolation, Loneliness and Return Migration: Evidence from Older Irish Adults

Alan Barrett, Irene Mosca

published in: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2013, 39 (10), 1659-1677

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6325

Announcing an Increase in the State Pension Age and the Recession: Which Mattered More for Expected Retirement Ages?

Alan Barrett, Irene Mosca

published as 'Increasing the State Pension Age, the Recession and Expected Retirement Ages' in: Economic and Social Review 2013, 44 (4), 447-472

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6324

The Psychic Costs of Migration: Evidence from Irish Return Migrants

Alan Barrett, Irene Mosca

revised version published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2013, 26 (2), 483-506