Tim Callan

Dr Tim Callan is an Adjunct Full Professor at the Geary Institute in UCD and a Research Fellow of the Institute for Labor Economics (IZA). He was Research Professor at the ESRI, and led its research on taxation and welfare (1987-2018). He has published widely in national and international journals on income tax and welfare policy, poverty and income distribution, low pay and labour supply. Details of his publications are available here.

He has contributed to the development of policy as a member of the Expert Working Group on Tax and Welfare, the Commission on the Family, the Expert Working Group on a new model for childcare funding and through the development and application of SWITCH, the ESRI tax-benefit model.