Senan Hogan-Hennessy

I am a PhD student in the Economics Department at Cornell University, and my research is in labour economics. My economics job market project focuses on:

• Identifying whether genes associated with education affect labour market outcomes directly or through educational choices, using Mendelian inheritance as a natural experiment
• Demonstrating that genetic effects on labour outcomes operate primarily through higher education rather than directly - challenging deterministic interpretations and re-instating the role of human capital development
• New methods to analyse mechanisms behind causal effects from observational studies in general, acknowledging selection in a causal mediation framework.

I am passionate about the study of inequality, data-centric research, and open-source software. Take a look at my thoughts in my posts tab, details on my academic work in my research tab.

You can see my CV here, and my Cornell profile here.

When not working, I am usually cycling.