Irene Mosca

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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, the Journal of Population 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 socioeconomic gradients in health.

Irene is also a Research Affiliate with the Economic and Social Research Institute, Dublin, Ireland and a Visiting Research Fellow with Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. She joined IZA as a Research Affiliate in November 2016.


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IZA Publications

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
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
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