{"id":153,"date":"2021-04-10T11:43:23","date_gmt":"2021-04-10T11:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hargaden.com\/enda\/?page_id=153"},"modified":"2026-02-06T14:39:05","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T14:39:05","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/hargaden.com\/enda\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>I work at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucd.ie\/economics\/\">UCD School of Economics<\/a>.<\/h2>\n<p class=\"page-intro\">Previously I was a Lecturer (Above the Bar) in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.universityofgalway.ie\/business-public-policy-law\/cairnes\/\">J.E. Cairnes School of Business &amp; Economics<\/a> at University of Galway. In American academic lingo, most above-the-bar lecturers are comparable to associate professors. Before that, I worked at the University of Tennessee, with a joint appointment in the <a href=\"http:\/\/haslam.utk.edu\/economics\">Department of Economics<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/cber.utk.edu\/\">Boyd Center for Business and Economic Research<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>My research focuses on public economics and applied micro. You can find out more about my work by clicking on the research link, or by viewing my <a href=\"https:\/\/hargaden.com\/enda\/Hargaden_CV.pdf\">CV<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I earned a Ph.D. in economics from the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.umich.edu\/\">University of Michigan<\/a>\u00a0in 2016. Previously I studied at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tcd.ie\/\">Trinity College Dublin<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ucd.ie\/\">University College Dublin<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I work at the UCD School of Economics. Previously I was a Lecturer (Above the Bar) in the J.E. Cairnes School of Business &amp; Economics at University of Galway. In American academic lingo, most above-the-bar&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-153","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hargaden.com\/enda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hargaden.com\/enda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hargaden.com\/enda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hargaden.com\/enda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hargaden.com\/enda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":49,"href":"https:\/\/hargaden.com\/enda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1547,"href":"https:\/\/hargaden.com\/enda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/153\/revisions\/1547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hargaden.com\/enda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}