Dimitrios Argyros

Welcome to my website! 

I am a Temporary Assistant Professor of Economics at Dublin City University Business School (DCU). I am also an external affiliated 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 current research examines the determinants of health inequality across the lifespan and 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: Examining how the adoption of new agricultural technologies shapes environmental quality, agricultural incomes, and household living conditions, with downstream consequences for population health and human capital. This includes work on genetically modified crop adoption in India and its effects on child health and long-run welfare. 

• Intergenerational transmission of health: Analysing how health outcomes persist across generations and over the life course in low- and middle-income countries, including work on early-life shocks, such as famine exposure, and their long-run consequences for adult cognition, as well as broader patterns of health convergence and divergence across cohorts and countries. 

• Institutions and vulnerability: nvestigating how institutional quality and economic conditions, such as governance, corruption, financial development, and access to public services, shape household welfare, exposure to shocks, and child well-being, with implications for inequality and vulnerability in developing countries. 

I am also interested in the interplay broader issues related to population ageing, economic inequality, migration, fertility, and climate change. For more information about my research, see here. 

I place great emphasis on teaching and am strongly committed to fostering engaging and inclusive learning environments. I currently teach introductory courses in Microeconomics and Macroeconomics at Dublin City University to large cohorts of over 500 students, and I previously gained extensive teaching experience in quotative and applied modules as a Teaching Assistant at University College Dublin. For further details, please see my teaching portfolio here.

I hold a PhD in Economics from University College Dublin. I also 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