CEBI – University of Copenhagen

Center for Economic Behavior and Inequality (CEBI)

Department of Economics

Figure: Shutdowns cause only small economic costs during COVID-19 pandemic

Shutdowns cause only small economic costs during COVID-19 pandemic

Figure: Patient people are wealthier

Patient people are wealthier

Figure: Propensity to Actively Take Out New Mortgage

How Do House Prices Drive Spending?

Figure: Inequalities at birth persist into the next generation

Inequalities at birth persist into the next generation

Lower Minimum Wages for Young Increase their Employment?

Lower minimum wages for young increase their employment

Figure: Financial trouble from generation to generation

Financial trouble from generation to generation

Figure: Does Earmarked Paternity Leave affect the Intra-Household Income Distribution

Does earmarked parental leave affect the intra-household income distribution?

Figure: How far are labor supply behavior from Homo Economicus?

How far are labor supply behavior from Homo Economicus?

Figure: How big is inequality in life expectancy?

How big is inequality in life expectancy?

Figure: Childhood wealth is a strong predictor of wealth in adulthood

Childhood wealth is a strong predictor of wealth in adulthood nearly three decades later

Figure: Top incomes in Scandinavia: Recent developments and the role of capital income

Strength and weaknesses of using top income shares as inequality measures

Figure: Stimulus Policy: Why not let peaple spend their own money?

Stimulus Policy: Why not let people spend their own money?

Figure: 3 personality traits affect what you earn

3 personality traits affect what you earn

Figure: Who evades taxes in developed countries?

Who evades taxes in developed countries?

Children are the main course of gender inequality in earnings. FOTO: Niels Ahlmann Olesen / Ritzau Scanpix

Children are the main course of gender inequality in earnings

FOTO: Niels Ahlmann Olesen / Ritzau Scanpix

Figure: How does a financial crises spread to the real economy?

How does a financial crises spread to the real economy?

Figure: Family labor supply responses to health shocks

Family labor supply responses to health shocks

Figure: Do bequests increase wealth inequality?

Do bequests increase wealth inequality?

News

COVID-19 Transmission Within Danish Households

2020.09.10

A Nationwide Study from Lockdown to Reopening: there is an increasing attack rate and transmission … »
The paper "Nonparametric Analysis of Time-Inconsistent Preferences"

2020.09.10

by Martin Browning and Co-authors has been accepted for publication in The Review of Economic … »
Mette Gørtz and Co-author’s publish in Demography

2020.08.27

The Paper “The Wealth of Parents: Trends Over Time in Assortative Mating Based on Parental Wealth” … »
Long-term positive effects of universal preschool programs

2020.08.19

Many children spend a substantial share of their early childhood in preschool programs. We know from … »
PNAS publication

2020.08.10

Adam Sheridan, Asger Lau Andersen, Emil Toft Hansen, and Niels Johannesen find that social … »
The Bank of Mum and Dad as young adult's social insurance

2020.07.16

New evidence from CEBI researchers, referred to in the Economist, shows that, when short of cash, … »

Events

24 Sept. 2020, 14:15-15:30

Eric French, University College London

"Intergenerational Altruism and Transfers of Time and Money: A Lifecycle Perspective", Seminar arranged by Center for Economic Behavior and Inequality (CEBI). ... »
1 Oct. 2020, 14:15-15:30

Dominik Sachs, University of Munich.

"The Indirect Fiscal Benefits of Low-Skilled Immigration", Seminar arranged by Center for Economic Behavior and Inequality (CEBI) ... »

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