Dr Aedín Doris

Aedín Doris has been a member of Maynooth University's Economics Department since 1997, after undertaking her PhD at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. She is currently Associate Professor and Head of Department. She has published in leading international journals on the determinants of earnings and earnings inequality; educational inequality; gender inequality in the labour market; the labour market effects of benefit systems; and higher education funding and access. Her policy work has included reports on income-contingent student loans, the HEAR and DARE university access routes, the introduction of a Living Wage and the introduction of the Minimum Wage. She was a member of the government's Pensions Commission (2020-21) and was Managing Editor of the Economic and Social Review, Ireland's foremost Economics journal, from 2020-2023.