Research
My research uses Danish administrative register data to answer questions in labour and public economics: how education, family background, firms, and pension systems shape economic outcomes over the life course.
Research areas
- Schooling and education. The economics of education, including early literacy interventions, the returns to skills, and how family circumstances — such as the timing of parental job loss — affect children's educational outcomes.
- Elderly, pensions and retirement. Retirement behaviour, pension reform, health capacity to work at older ages, and the labour market careers of senior workers, including work within the NBER International Social Security project.
- Labour supply and earnings dynamics. How earnings evolve over careers, the role of firm heterogeneity in earnings inequality, and labour supply responses to taxes and transfer programmes.
- Intergenerational transmission and inequality. Sibling correlations in earnings, parental assortative mating and the transmission of human capital, and socioeconomic inequality in longevity.
Current projects at VIVE
Jun 2019 – Dec 2027
Læseklar (Ready to Read)
A large-scale project on early literacy in primary school, spanning the education and social sectors.
Jun 2024 – Dec 2025
The post-displacement careers of seniors
Examines labour market outcomes when senior workers lose their jobs, and what shapes their subsequent careers.
Jan 2025 – Jun 2026
Pension reforms, retirement age, and inequality
Investigates how reforms to the pension system and rising retirement ages affect inequality among older Danes.
Sep 2025 – Dec 2026
Unretirement
Studies re-entry into the labour market after retirement and the factors that drive it.