Cormac O'Dea is an Assistant Professor at the Yale University Economics Department. Cormac is also a Research Associate of the IFS. He previously worked at the IFS from 2007 to 2017, and was an Associate Director from 2016 to 2017.
Education
PhD Economics, University College London, 2016
MPhil (Distinction) Economics, University of Cambridge, 2007
BA (First Class Honours) Economics, Trinity College Dublin, 2006
This report provides a new assessment of the proportion of people aged between 50 and the State Pension Age (SPA) who are at risk of having inadequate resources in retirement and considers the characteristics associated with the risk of such inadequacy.
Assessing the impact of government activity on the distribution of household living standards is essential to the evaluation of public service provision but raises challenging conceptual issues that we discuss in this paper.
This article examines the extent to which cognitive abilities relate to differences in trajectories for key economic outcomes as individuals move towards and through their retirement.
This article examines the extent to which cognitive abilities relate to differences in trajectories for key economic outcomes as individuals move towards and through their retirement.
In recent months, there has been much speculation that the Winter Fuel Payment (WFP) will be abolished or restricted as part of the forthcoming programme of spending cuts. In this observation we contribute to this debate by summarising what the WFP does, and does not, achieve.
