Research

Publications

2024

1. "A Pecking Order of Household Finance"  in Oxford Economics Papers  forthcoming Paper

2. "On the Origin of Green Finance Policies" with T.F. Cojoianu, A.G.F. Hoepner, L. Sheehan and  A. Vu in Journal of Financial Stability 79 101418  Paper

2024

1. "Special issues in support of evidence-based policy making in sustainable banking & finance" with L.Alessi, T.F. Cojoianu and A.G.F. Hoepner in International Review of Financial Analysis 102818 Paper

2023

1. "Why are disability rates for older working-age adults in Northern Ireland so high?" with D.McVicar and A.Devlin  in Economic and Social Review 54(1) pp. 1-28 Paper

2. "Exploring household financial strain dynamics" in International Review of Financial Analysis. 86 102469 Paper

3. "From financial wealth shocks to ill-health : allostatic load and overload" in Health Economics.  32(4) pp. 939-952 Paper

4. "Screening Children with a History of Maltreatment for PTSD in Frontline Social Care Organisations: A process evaluation" with J.Devaney and others in Child & Family Social Work.  28(4) pp. 1225-1234 Paper

5. "Delivering the precision oncology paradigm – reduced R&D costs and greater return on investment through a companion diagnostic informed precison oncology medicines approach" with R. Henderson & others in Journal of Pharmaceutical Policy and Practice.  16(84) Paper

2022

1. "The UK equity release market: Views from the regulatory authorities, product providers and advisors " with D.McKillop and T.Sharma  in International Review of Financial Analysis. 79 101994 Paper

2. "Risk and equity release mortgages in the UK" with D.McKillop and T.Sharma  in Journal of Real Estate Finance & Economics. 64 pp. 274–297 Paper

3. "Spend less to achieve more: Economic analysis of intermittent versus continuous cetuximab in KRAS wild-type patients with metastatic colorectal cancer" with R. Henderson & others in Journal of Cancer Policy. 33 100342 Paper

4. "Deservingness, conditionality and public perceptions of work disability: the influence of economic inequality" with R. Ciccia, F. Kee and M. O’Doherty in Work, Employment and Society. 36(4) pp. 610-629  Paper

2021

1. "Work disability and the Northern Irish Troubles" in Oxford Bulletin of Economics & Statistics.  83(5) pp. 1160-1192 Paper

2. "Defining the economic burden of colorectal cancer across Europe: a population-based cost-of-illness study"  with R. Henderson & others in The Lancet Gastroenterology & Hepatology  6(9) pp. 709-722 Paper

3. "HIV treatment and worker absenteeism: Quasi-experimental evidence from a large-scale health program in South Africa "  with D.Jockers, S.Langlotz and T.Bärnighausen in Journal of Health Economics  79  102479 Paper

4. "Cost-Effectiveness of Precision Diagnostic Testing Underpinning Precision Medicine for Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer: A Systematic Review"  with R. Henderson & others in Molecular Oncology 15(10)  pp. 2672-2687 Paper

5. "‘Personal finance apps and low income households" with D.McKillop and E.Stewart at Strategic Change 30( 4) pp.367– 375 Paper

2020

1. "The effectiveness of smart phone apps in improving financial capability" with D.McKillop and E.Stewart in European Journal of Finance 26(4-5) pp. 302-318. Paper 

2. "Cooperative financial institutions : A review of the literature" with D. McKillop, B. Quinn, A.L. Sobiech, J.O.S. Wilson in International Review of Financial Analysis. 71. 101520 Paper 

2019

1. "Early HIV treatment and labour outcomes: A case study of mining workers in South Africa.’ with J.Brink and T.Bärnighausen in Health Economics 28(2) pp. 204-218.  Paper.

2. "The causes and consequences of household financial strain: a systematic review" with S.Vigne in International Review of Financial Analysis. 62 pp. 150-156. Paper 

3. "Molecular biomarkers and precision medicine in colorectal cancer: a systematic review of health economic analyses " with R. Henderson, M.Lawler and others in Oncotarget. 10 (36) pp. 3408-3423. Paper 

2018

1. "Financial strain in the United Kingdom" in Oxford Economic Papers 70(1) pp. 163–182 Paper

2. "What determines UK housing equity withdrawal in later life ?’ with D.McKillop and T.Sharma  in Regional Science & Urban Economics. 73 pp. 143-154 Paper

2017

1. "How financial strain affects health: evidence from the Dutch National Bank Household Survey" with D.McKillop & C. Prentice in Social Science & Medicine 178 pp. 127-135 Paper

2. "Social capital, deprivation and self-rated health: Does reporting heterogeneity play a role? Results from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing" with M.O'Doherty, F.Kee & A. Steptoe in Social Science & Medicine 179 pp. 191-200  Paper

3. "The Impact of debt and financial stress on health in Northern Irish households" with D.McKillop, Journal of European Social Policy 27(5) pp. 458–473 Paper

2016

1. "From atheoretical to informed mortality modelling" with C. O'Hare in British Actuarial Journal 21(1) pp. 95-96 Paper  

2. "Did the Millennium Development Goals change trends in child mortality?" in Health Economics 25(10) pp. 1312-1325 Paper

3. "Residential segregation, dividing walls and mental health: A population-based record linkage study" with A.Maguire & D.O'Reilly in Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 70 pp. 845–854 Paper

4. "Identifying the relative importance of stock characteristics" with Y.Wu & Y.Li , Journal of Multinational Financial Management 34 pp.80-91 Paper 

5. "Shooting for the Moon or Flying Too Near the Sun? Crossing the Value Rubicon in Precision Cancer Care" with M.Lawler, R.Henderson, A.Aggarwal & R.Sullivan, Public Health Genomics 19(3) pp.132-135 Paper  

6. "Financial literacy and over-indebtedness in low-income households" " with D.McKillop, International Review of Financial Analysis 48 pp.1-11 Paper 

2014

1. "International mortality modelling - an economic perspective" in Economics Letters 122(2), pp.182–186 Paper

2. "Forecasting Death Rates Using Exogenous Determinants" with C. O'Hare in Journal of Forecasting 33(8), pp.640–650. Paper

2013

1. “Nonparametric Estimation of Data Dimensionality Prior to Data Compression: the case of the Human Development Index” with M.Moore & D.Canning in Journal of Applied Statistics 40 (9) pp.1853-1863. Paper

2. “A Dynamic Factor Approach to Mortality Modelling” with C.O'Hare in Journal of Forecasting 32(7) pp.587–599. Paper

3. “Is Human Development Multidimensional?” with M.Moore & D.Canning in Journal of International Development. 25(4) pp.445-455 Paper

2012

“Causation Between Health and Income: A Need to Panic” in Empirical Economics. 42(2), pp. 583-601. Paper

2009

“Residential segregation and health in Northern Ireland” in Health & Place. 15(3), pp. 888-896. Paper

Chapters

“The effectiveness of smart phone apps in improving financial capability’ with E.Stewart and D.McKillop in Financial Literacy and Responsible Finance in the FinTech Era: Capabilities and Challenges. eds Wilson, J., Panos, G. A.  and Adcock, C. Routledge. Publication

"Labour market participation of older people in Northern Ireland" with A.Devlin in Early Key findings from a study of older people in Northern Ireland : The NICOLA study eds. S.Cruise and F.Kee Publication

"Pensions, Housing and Mortgage Markets in the UK" with T.Sharma and D.McKillop in Old Age Provision and Homeownership - Fiscal Incentives and Other Public Policy Options eds. M.Eckardt, J.Dötsch and S.Okruch.  Springer. Publication

Grants

Principal Investigator on team awarded £10,000 from British Academy for 'Cost of flying the flag' April 2023

Co-investigator on team awarded £200,000 from Dept of Justice (NI) for 'Preventing and Protecting : understanding the needs of and responses to communities affected by violence, paramilitarism and organised crime' July 2022 

Academic supervisor on Knowledge Transfer Project with Diaceutics June 2019.

Co-investigator on team awarded £200,000 from the Money Advice Service to inform their What Works initiative on improving financial capability Feb 2017.

Co-investigator on team awarded £264,283 in response to Trauma of Maltreated Children NSPCC and ESRC Research Call - Helping children get back on track after abuse and neglect Dec 2016.

Co-investigator on team awarded £37,779 by Department for Communities (NI) for Landscape Review of the credit union sector in Northern Ireland Sept 2016.

Co-investigator in consortium awarded European Commission research grant of €400,000 in response to call "Promoting the contribution of private savings to pension adequacy" June 2015. 

Co-investigator on team awarded £25,000 from UK Economic and Social Research Council for knowledge transfer project with NI Credit Unions Nov 2014.

 Awarded £150,000 from CARDI for post-doctoral student to work on ‘Understanding disability and how it is reported in older adults in different jurisdiction" Nov 2013. 

Awarded £15,000 from Queen’s Business Alliance Fund to support ‘Understanding Over-indebtedness in Credit Unions’ Sept 2013. 

 Co-investigator on team awarded UK Medical Research Council Renewal Grant of £3.3 million for Centre of Excellence for Public Health, QUB 2013.

Awarded The Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (UK) Pump-priming grant Dec 2011 of £10,000 as Principal Investigator.

Awarded Centre for Ageing Research and Development in Ireland (CARDI) Datamining Grant January 2011 of £2,000.

Awards

Awarded Health Data Research UK’s (HDR UK) ‘Impact of the Year’ with Prof Mark Lawler (CCRCB QUB) and Dr Raymond Henderson (former PhD) and others.  The award panel said: “Using a combination of a health economic modelling and in-depth data analysis, this research indicated that providing a break in treatment to patients with advanced bowel cancer could not only benefit a patient’s response to treatment and their quality-of-life, but could also help save £1.2 billion for the National Health Service in England. The panel applaud the work’s translation into policy in a short time frame, which is often very difficult, alongside its focus on patient quality of life. The panel found the study presents a strong analysis and strongly demonstrates the potential of using health data for health economics." More information about the award.

Ph.D. Students

Supervisor for 1 Ph.D. student working on The cost of flying the flag. 

1st supervisor to 

• Anh Vu  graduated 2024 : Aligning Finance with Low Carbon Economy: Perspectives from Green Finance Policies

• Anne Devlin graduated 2021 : Disability and Work: Investigating the over 50 population in Northern Ireland and England

• Carla Prentice graduated 2021 : Over-indebtedness and consequences for well-being. 

• Raymond Henderson graduated 2019 : Evaluating Cost Effectiveness of Precision Cancer Medicine Approaches and The Economic Burden of Colorectal Cancer. 

• Tripti Sharma graduated 2019 : The Future of Equity Release Schemes in the UK

• Rachel Keyes graduated 2018  : Financial Education in Credit Unions.

2nd supervisor to Satrajit Mukherjee graduated 2016 working on foreign exchange markets.