Irene Mosca holds a Ph.D in Economics from the University of Strathclyde (Glasgow, UK). From 2010-2018, she worked with The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA), in Trinity College Dublin, coordinating the economics domain and chairing the socioeconomic research group. She joined Maynooth University in 2019.
Irene’s research interests are in the fields of applied health, population and labour economics. Irene has established a strong record of research and published articles in international peer-reviewed journals, including Demography, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Oxford Economics Papers, the Journal of Population Economics, Labour Economics, Economics Letters, the Journal of Economic Psychology, Economics and Human Biology, Bulletin of Economic Research, Scottish Journal of Political Economy and the International Journal of Public Health.
In 2022, Irene was awarded the Novartis Prize for Best Health Economics Paper at the 2022 Irish Economics Association Conference. The paper is co-authored with Professor Anne Nolan (ESRI) and investigates the long-term effects of in-utero exposure to rubella during the 1956 rubella outbreak in Ireland. In 2017, Irene was awarded the “Excellence in Mental Health Policy and Economics Research Award” by the Editorial Board of The Journal of Mental Health Policy and Economics. The paper is co-authored with Professor Alan Barrett (ESRI) and investigates the effects of retirement on mental health.
Irene is currently a member of the External Advisory Group for IGEES (the Irish Government Economic and Evaluation Service) and a research fellow at the IZA Institute for Study of Labor and the Global Labor Organisation (GLO).
From 2022 to 2025, she was an Executive Committee Member of the Irish Society for Women in Economics (ISWE).
