Projects
What I am working on now – reading, crime and retirement.
Reading in the first years of school
Two trials with Vibeke Myrup Jensen and Jens Dietrichson, who lead them, on what intensive early help with reading does for the children who get it and for the classrooms around them.
Læseklar (Ready to Read)
Can tutoring a few children at risk of reading difficulties lift reading across a whole school, and not only for the children tutored? Trials that randomise pupils inside a school cannot see such an effect, because any gain to classmates is netted out of the comparison.
Findings
Reading, wellbeing and broader learning
Does help with decoding reach past decoding? The project asks whether an intervention aimed at children who struggle to crack the reading code also moves their wellbeing and their more general learning.
Crime and the family
What a brush with the criminal justice system does to the people around it. With Lorenzo Cappellari, Marco Ovidi, Matteo Sandi and Konstantinos Tatsiramos.
The Shadow of Doubt: Post-Acquittal Impacts of Charges and Detentions on Individuals and Families
What does being charged and held cost someone the courts then acquit, and what does it cost the people around them? An acquittal closes the case and not necessarily anything else.
Findings
Retirement, pensions and later working life
Three projects on the last stretch of a working life: what a pension reform does to who gains, what happens to a senior who loses a job, and who comes back after retiring. I lead this strand, working with Lorenzo Cappellari, Vibeke Jakobsen, Mona Larsen, Christian Højgaard Mikkelsen and Marco Ovidi. This work contributes to VIVE's knowledge centre on keeping seniors in the labour market.
Pension reforms, retirement age and inequality
Denmark has indexed its pension age to life expectancy. Who gains and who loses when the rules change depends on how long each group lives to collect, and on whether people can adjust when they retire. The reforms of the past three decades moved in both directions, so the distribution of their effects can be measured.
Unretirement
Who goes back to work after retiring, and what pulls them back? Retirement is treated as a single step out of the labour market, and for a good many people it is not.
The post-displacement careers of seniors
What happens to a worker whose employer closes when they are in their fifties? Employment recovers in a way that earnings do not, and part of the recovery is other people leaving the labour market rather than the displaced returning to it.
Findings