Dr. Aedín Doris

Dr. Aedín Doris is an applied labour economist. She has been at Maynooth's Economics Department since 1997, after undertaking her PhD at the European University Institute (Florence, Italy).

Her research is mainly in the areas of earnings inequality, the economics of education, benefit systems and gender differentials in labour market and education outcomes, typically using Irish data.

She has published in leading international journals such as the Journal of Human Resources, Economica, the Economics of Education Review, the Journal of Economic Inequality and Oxford Economic Papers. She was Managing Editor of the Economic and Social Review, Ireland's main Economics journal, from 2020-2023.

Aedín’s policy work has included reports on income-contingent student loans, the HEAR and DARE university access routes and the introduction of the Living Wage and of the original Minimum Wage. She is currently a member of the Labour Market Advisory Council and has been a member of the government's Pensions Commission (2020-21) and of the External Advisory Group for IGEES (2016-2025).