CEBI – University of Copenhagen

Center for Economic Behavior and Inequality (CEBI)

Department of Economics

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

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, … »
CEBI research about consumer spending during the COVID-19 lock-down

2020.07.07

covered in article in The New York Times and in Die Welt … »
CEBI organizes the Economic Policy Research Network conference June 18

2020.06.11

This year the topic is COVID-19: Economic Consequences and Policy Response … »
How to stimulate the Danish economy after the COVID-19 lockdown

2020.06.09

Recent research from CEBI provides key estimate for the current discussions about the right fiscal … »
Torben Heien Nielsen and Itzik Fadlon's research paper Family Labor Supply Responses to Severe Health Shocks

2020.06.08

Evidence from Danish Administrative Records has been accepted for publication in American Economic … »
The contagious nature of a vaccine scare

2020.05.22

Mette Gørtz and Mette Ejrnæs find that highly-educated mothers were apparently more sensitive to … »

Events

3 Sept. - 4 Sept. 2020

Third Conference on New Consumption Data

The goal of the conference is to bring people interested in the topic together to present new research using these new data and methods to measure spending, discuss pros and cons and exchange best practices, etc. ... »
17 Sept. 2020, 14:15-15:30

Zoe Cullen, Harvard Business School

Seminar arranged by Center for Economic Behavior and Inequality (CEBI) ... »

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