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

Jeppe Druedahl on the front page of the Danish newspaper Information

2020.03.20

where he lays out the economic consequences of the corona virus and how to deal with it … »
Jeppe Druedahl and Thomas H. Jørgensen’s paper entitled “Can Consumers Distinguish Permanent from Transitory Income Shocks?”

2020.03.17

has been accepted for publication in The Economic Journal. … »
Mette Ejrnæs and Thomas Jørgensen's paper “Family Planning in a Life-Cycle Model with Income Risk"

2020.03.02

accepted for publication in Jounal of Applied econometrics … »
CEBI research on 'elite capture of foreign aid' in global media

2020.02.18

The Economist and The Financial Times cover still unpublished research by Niels Johannesen on elite … »
Marco Piovesan to teach PhD course on 'How to Survive and Prosper as a Young Academic in Economics'

2020.02.17

during Marco Piovesan’s two weeks visit in February at Collegio Carlo Alberto, Turin … »
CEBI research accepted for publication in Journal of Public Economics

2020.02.07

In recent research, Niels Johannesen and co-authors Johannes Becker and Nadine Riedel study how … »

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