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Dr. Barra Roantree

Assistant Professor (Economics)
ARTS BUILDING
      
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Dr. Barra Roantree

Assistant Professor (Economics)
ARTS BUILDING

 BARRA.ROANTREE@tcd.ie

 3531896 1043


I'm an Assistant Professor in Economics and Programme Director of the MSc in Economic Policy at Trinity College Dublin. I previously worked as an economist at the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) in Dublin and the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) in London. I was a member of the Irish Government's 2021-22 Commission on Taxation and Welfare.
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Member of Irish Society for Women in Economics executive committee (leadership group 2023-24) 2023-24
Co-chair and founder, Irish Economics Association Public Economics Network 2024-
Member of DFHERIS Evidence Programme for Student Support 2024-
Member of Foundation for Fiscal Studies projects committee 2023-
Member of the Government's Commission on Taxation and Welfare 2021-2022
Member of Department of Transport National Demand Management Strategy Fiscal Measures steering group 2023-2024
Member of TILDA Steering Committee 2024-
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Irish Economics Association 1/1/2018
European Economics Association
Royal Economics Assocation 1/9/2012
Taxation in, editor(s)John O'Hagan, Francis O'Toole, Ciara Whelan , The Economy of Ireland: Policy Making in a Global Context, London, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2025, pp130 - 152, [Barra Roantree], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED  URL
Sonya Krutikova, Barra Roantree, Imran Tahir, Short-run evaluation of NExTWORK, Institute for Fiscal Studies, September, 2025, p1 - 59, Report, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  URL
Barra Roantree, Poverty, income inequality and living standards in Ireland: 5th annual report, Jointly-published Reports, 14, ESRI and Community Foundation Ireland, September, 2025, p1 - 78, Report, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI
Roantree, Barra, Barrett, Michelle, Income inequality in Ireland, 1987-2019, Fiscal Studies, 45, (2), 2024, p143-153 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI
Kakoulidou Theano, Doolan Michael, Roantree Barra, The Effect of Earnings-Related Benefits on Financial Work Incentives, International Journal of Microsimulation, 17, (3), 2024, p21-43 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI  URL
Barra Roantree, Poverty, income inequality and living standards in Ireland: 4th annual report, Jointly-published Reports, ESRI, September, 2024, p1 - 51, Report, PUBLISHED  DOI
Barra Roantree and Karina Doorley, Poverty, income inequality and living standards in Ireland, Jointly-published Reports 4, ESRI and Community Foundation Ireland, September, 2023, Report, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI
Barra Roantree, Inequality in Ireland: 1987-2019, Deaton Review Country studies, Institute for Fiscal Studies, November, 2023, p1 - 40, Report, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text
Barra Roantree, ESRI Poverty, Income Inequality and Living Standards Spreadsheet, 28/10/2022, Economic and Social Research Institute, 2022, Dataset, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI
Michelle Barrett, Karina Doorley, Paul Redmond, Barra Roantree, How Has the Gender Earnings Gap in Ireland Changed in Thirty Years?, Social Sciences, 11, (8), 2022, p367 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
  

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Barra Roantree and Barra Roantree, Sustainable Development: The Role of Taxation, Journal of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2023, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Dublin Economics Workshop, Annual Economic Policy Conference, 22/23 September 2023, 2023, Wexford, Rowena Dwyer Ciarán Mac An Bhaird Yvonne McCarthy Aebhric McGibney Dermot O'Leary Seán Prior Barra Roantree, Meetings /Conferences Organised, PUBLISHED
Barra Roantree and Barra Roantree, Income Inequality and Living Standards, Journal of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2022, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Barra Roantree, Mark Regan, Born under a bad sign: the impact of finishing school when labour markets are weak, 2021, Working Paper, PUBLISHED
Barra Roantree, Understanding Income Inequality in Ireland, Journal of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2020, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Barra Roantree, Thomas Pope, Robert Joyce, The characteristics and incomes of the top 1%, IFS Briefing Note, BN253, Institute for Fiscal Studies, 2019, Report, PUBLISHED
Barra Roantree, Mark Regan, Tim Callan, Michael Savage, John R Walsh, Housing Assistance Payment: Potential impacts on financial incentives to work, ESRI Working Paper, 610, The Economic and Social Research Institute, January, 2019, p1 - 31, Report, PUBLISHED
The goose's golden egg: taxes, benefits and redistribution in the UK in, Plucking the goose : a century of taxation from the Great War to the digital age, London, Tolley Publishing Company, 2016, [Paul Johnson and Barra Roantree], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Options for increasing tax in, The IFS Green Budget: February 2015, The Institute for Fiscal Studies, 2015, pp227 - 266, [Stuart Adam and Barra Roantree], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Stuart Adam Barra Roantree, The coalition government's record on tax, IFS Briefing Note, BN167, The Institute for Fiscal Studies, March, 2015, p1 - 33, Report, PUBLISHED

  


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Award Date
Foundation for Fiscal Studies Miriam Hederman O"Brien Prize 2022
Barrington Medal, Statistical & Social Inquiry Society of Ireland 2020