We are very sorry that our beloved colleague and friend, Dr. Eoghan Garvey, passed away on April 1st, 2009. Eoghan is sadly missed by all who worked and studied with him.
Eoghan’s main area of research was an investigation of family decision-making in the spheres of labour supply, human capital investment and consumption. He studied consumption and labour allocation among farm households in Peru (for a PhD under Alan Matthews at TCD), and was involved in a study of children’s consumption patterns in Ireland.
Eoghan was also engaged in quantitative and theoretical research in the following four areas with other members of staff from the Economics Department at NUI Galway: i) social capital, inequality and health, ii) models of suicide and attempted suicide, iii) inflation indices and poverty, iv) rural tax schemes and employment generation. He was also a member of the CAPRI (Common Agricultural Policy Regional Impact Analysis) EU Framework Project team. This is a long-term project to provide a regionally disaggregated model of EU agriculture for detailed trade and environmental policy analysis and involves co-operative work with up to 30 other universities or research facilities across Europe.
The Department is planning to establish a scholarship in Eoghan’s memory. For information about this or any other aspect of Eoghan’s life and work please contact Brendan Kennelly at brendan.kennelly@nuigalway.ie.
Kennelly, B., O’Shea, E. and Garvey, E. (2003), Social capital, life expectancy and mortality: a cross-national examination. Social Science and Medicine, 56, 12, pp 2367-2377.
M. Keane and E. Garvey (2005): Measuring the Employment Effects of the Rural Renewal Tax Scheme. Regional Studies, vol. 40, issue 3, pp. 359-374.
A. Brick, E. Garvey and M. Cuddy (2007). The participation of farm couples in community and voluntary activities: Evidence from County Mayo. Submitted to Rural Studies.
E. Murphy and E. Garvey, (2008). The inadequacy of cost of living indices based on subjective preferences: an ethical and methodological critique. International Review of Applied Economics, Vol. 22, No. 6: 745-754.
Stephen Hynes, Nick Hanley, Eoghan Garvey (2006). Up the proverbial creek without a paddle: Accounting for variable participant skill levels in recreational demand modelling, Environmental and Resource Economics, Vol. 36: 413-426.
Hynes, S. and E. Garvey (forthcoming). Modelling Farmers’ Participation in an Agri-Environmental Scheme using Panel Data: An Application to the Rural Environmental Protection Scheme in Ireland. Journal of Agricultural Economics.
Selected Publications