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).