Dimitrios Argyros

Welcome to my website! 

I am a Temporary Assistant Professor of Economics at Dublin City University Business School (DCU) and a PhD candidate in Economics at University College Dublin (UCD), supervised by Benjamin Elsner, with my viva voce scheduled for October 2025. I am also an external visiting researcher at the Population Studies Centre of the University of Pennsylvania, hosted by Hans-Peter Kohler.

I am an applied microeconomist and demographer with key research interests in Health, Development, and Environmental Economics, as well as broader issues related to Public Health. My research examines how economic forces, institutional contexts, and environmental dynamics shape household decision-making and population health in low- and middle-income countries.

My current work focuses on three main themes:

• Agricultural technology, environment, and health: investigating how the adoption of new agricultural technologies affects environmental degradation, climate change, and child health.

• Intergenerational transmission of health: analysing how health outcomes are passed across generations in less-developed contexts, and how this persistence evolves over time.

• Financial access and vulnerability: understanding how access to financial institutions influences household welfare and child well-being in developing countries.

I am also interested in the interplay between institutional quality and gender norms, as well as broader issues related to health and economic inequality, migration, fertility, and climate change. For more information about my research, see here. 

I place great emphasis on teaching, and I am committed to fostering engaging and inclusive learning environments. I teach courses in Microeconomics and Macroeconomics at Dublin City University and have extensive experience as a Teaching Assistant at University College Dublin. For more information about teaching, see here.

I hold an MSc in Economics from the University of Warwick and an MSc in Finance from the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens. 

I have been a co-organiser of the Young Irish Economists Seminar Series (YIESS), a platform that aims to bring together young economists across Ireland and beyond to present their work and engage in a vibrant research community.

My research has been funded by the Irish Research Council. 

You can look at my CV here. 

You can contact me at: 

dimitrios.argyros@dcu.ie

dimitrios.argyros@ucdconnect.ie

argyros1@sas.upenn.edu