Fields: Economics of Education, Labor Economics, Fertility and Health Economics, Empirical Microeconomics, Applied Theory
Publications
"Understanding skill demand and skill usage on the job: Evidence from job posts and individual-level data on skill usage", January 2025
with Moira Daly, Copenhagen Business School and Mathias Fjællegaard Jensen, University of Oxford
"Admissions Constraints and the Decision to Delay University”, The Scandinavian Journal of Economics (2019), with Kelly Foley, University of Saskatchewan
“Who takes the child to the doctor? Mom, pretty much all of the time”, Applied Economics Letters, 1-10, 2017, with Moira Daly Copenhagen Business School
“The Relationship between Age at First Birth and Mother's Lifetime Earnings: Evidence from Danish Data”, January 2016, PloS one 11.1 (2016): e0146989,
with Mallory Leung, Washington University in St. Louis and Raul Santaeulalia-Llopis, MOVE-UAB and Barcelona GSE
In the media: Financial Times, The Economist 1843, Videnskab.dk, eb.dk STL Public Radio MIC Vocativ La Vanguardia Billfold psmag Psychology Today globalnewsca
“The U-shapes of Occupational Mobility”, Review of Economic Studies, 82(2) April 2015
with Philipp Kircher, University of Edinburgh and Iourii Manovskii, University of Pennsylvania
Working Papers
"Absence and Completion among Students in Vocational Education", July 2025.
With Edith Madsen, Copenhagen Business School and Tróndur Møller Sandoy, The University of the Faroe Island
“Bank Lending and Worker Reallocation in the Great Recession”, March 2025
with Aksel Vester Augsburg, University of Copenhagen and Daniel le Maire, University of Copenhagen
"The Unequal Battle Against Infertility: Theory and Evidence from IVF Success", December 2024
with Anna Houstecka, CERGE-EI, Daniela Iorio, Bologna University, and Raul Santaeulalia-Llopis, New York University Abu Dhabi, BSE, CEPR
"Intergenerational Mobility by Same-Sex and Different-Sex Attraction", July 2025. Working paper coming soon.
with Mathias Fjællegaard Jensen, University of Oxford and Morten Kjær Thomsen, University of Oxford
“How much do Universities Trade Quality for Quantity in the Production of University Graduates?”, May 2024, under review
With Kelly Foley, University of Saskatchewan
“The Macroeconomics of Sorting and Turnover in a Dynamic Assignment Model”, February 2018
with Simeon Alder, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Work in progress
Evaluating a Large-Scale Intervention in Vocational Education, June 2025
with Barnabas Bakay, Copenhagen Business School, Marcos Vera Hernandez, University College London, and Edith Madsen, Copenhagen Business School
The Ozempic Economy: Sugar Addiction, Labor Market and Optimal Subsidies, July 2025
with Christian Alemán-Pericon, New York University Abu Dhabi, Veda Narasimhan, New York University Abu Dhabi, Raul Santaeulàlia-Llopi, New York University Abu Dhabi, BSE, CEPR, and Tetyana Surovtseva, Universitat de Barcelona
“Unpacking the Birth Order Effect”, July 2025
with Wifag Adnan, New York University Abu Dhabi, Konstantinos Chountas, New York University Abu Dhabi, Aikaterini Kyriazidou, New York University Abu Dhabi, and Tetyana Surovtseva, Universitat de Barcelona
"Income Dynamics of Couples: Correlated Risks and Heterogeneous Outcomes Within-Household Insurance", April 2024
with Christopher Busch, Ludwig Maximillian University Munich & CESifo and Rocio Madera, Southern Methodist University & CESifo
“Optimal Design of Funding for University Education”
With Chao Fu, University of Wisconsin-Madison and Nirav Mehta, University of Western Ontario
Other work
"Completion from Vocational Educations: A Register Based Analysis", September 2021
With Edith Madsen, Copenhagen Business School and Tróndur Møller Sandoy,
The University of the Faroe Islands.