DrEnda Hargaden

I am an Assistant Professor/Lecturer at the University College Dublin School of Economics.

My research focuses on public finance, optimal taxation, and applied microeconomics. I research how individuals and firms respond to tax policy; how governments choose these policies; and the factors that influence individuals’ willingness to donate to quasi-governmental causes. My work has appeared in the Journal of Public Economics, the Journal of Economic History, the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, among others.

Previously I was a Lecturer (Above the Bar) in the JE Cairnes School of Business & Economics at University of Galway. Before that, I worked at the University of Tennessee, with a joint appointment in the Department of Economics and the Boyd Center for Business and Economic Research.

I earned a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michigan in 2016. Previously I studied at Trinity College Dublin and University College Dublin.