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PARENTAL LEAVE

2023.09.07

Shorter parental leave can weaken children's well-being and development

A new study from Center for Economic Behavior and Inequality at the University of Copenhagen shows that Danish children’s well-being is improved when their parents take longer parental leave.

ATTITUDES TOWARDS INEQUALITY

2023.07.04

Danes underestimate inequality - both rich and poor

A new Danish study is the largest to date to examine people's understanding of and attitudes towards inequality.

2023.06.15

Mette Ejrnæs is new member (sage) of the Economic Council's chairmanship

The chairmanship of the Economic Council is an independent council, and appointments of new members to the chairmanship take place on the recommendation of the incumbent chairmanship.

Employment

2023.05.30

CEBI researchers to advise the government on the future labour market

The Danish government wants to reform the employment system to focus on the individual citizen. The possibilities will be mapped out by a group of experts led by Claus Thustrup Kreiner, head of CEBI. Jakob Egholt Søgaar…

2023.05.03

External CEBI member Professor Gabriel Zucman receives the 2023 John Bates Clark Medal

Congratulations to the 2023 John Bates Clark Medalist Gabriel Zucman. The John Bates Clark Medalist is awarded annually to an economist under the age of 40, the John Bates Clark Medal recognizes outstanding research…

2023.03.28

The effect of earmarked parental leave - Thomas H. Jørgensen on TV2 News

Research shows that especially the level of compensation during the leave matters a lot for how much leave fathers take.

Grant

2023.03.28

CEBI receives funding for four more years

A new grant of DKK 39.8 million from the Danish National Research Foundation ensures that researchers at CEBI can continue their research on economic behaviour and inequality.

WORKING LIFE

2023.03.08

Family growth depends on wages

Economists from Copenhagen and Oxford have found that inequality stemming from fertility can be long-lasting - and that income changes affect men and women's desire for family growth differently.

INEQUALITY IN PENSION

2023.01.16

Retirement inequality - Mette Gørtz in News & Co

Danish women choose their pension on average 2 years before men, and there are several reasons for this, says Mette Gørtz when participating in TV2’s News & Co on Friday 13th.

AWARD

2022.12.19

Policies' implications on labor supply and inequality within families

Thomas Høgholm Jørgensen has been awarded The Semper Ardens Accelerate grant from The Carlsberg Foundation

AWARD

2022.12.05

Modeling Economic Agents as Deep Reinforcement Learners

Jeppe Druedahl is awarded the IRFD Sapere Aude grant to bridge theory with empirical evidence.

TAX transparency

2022.11.23

Niels Johannsen on Global Forum

Niels Johannesen was invited in as a panelist on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes.

Labor market policy

2022.11.23

Essay about Danish Flexicurity: Rights and Duties

Claus Thustrup Kreiner and Michael Svarer review the Danish flexicurity model in Journal of Economic Perspectives.

2022.10.12

Johan Sæverud on French television explaining about the Danish social security eligibility age.

French president Emmanuel Macron proposed a gradual increase in the social security eligibility age from 62 to 65 in the Spring of 2022, but has faced severe opposition from both labor unions and his centrist alliance.…

2022.10.03

Sarah Zaccagni is the winner of the 2021-2022 edition of the Vaona Prize for her Ph.D Thesis

The award ceremony has been held on September 30, 2022 in the Vaona Hall of the University of Verona. As part of the event, Sarah presented the main findings of her Ph.D. thesis, titled “Essays on Economics of Health an…

2022.10.03

Søren Leth-Petersen interviewed about data management at DNRF’s annual meeting 2022

Forskerne har altid bygget videre på hinandens resultater, og i en verden, hvor forskning bliver mere og mere digital, er der brug for at gøre data nemmere at gå til. Stort set alle danske forskere vil i de kommende år…

2022.10.03

Miriam Wüst elected to the EALE Executive Committee, 2022

The European Association of Labour Economists was founded in 1989 in order to promote the advancement of knowledge in the field of labour economics in Europe and elsewhere.

2022.09.05

Are time preferences passed on to the next generation?

If so, does the transmission persist or fade out as children age? How relevant is parenting as a device to counteract or strengthen the transmission of preferences from parents to children?

2022.08.31

Kristoffer Balle Hvidberg interviewed on Radio4 about crime

In the live afternoon show ”Missionen” on August 29 Kristoffer explained how preferences predict who commits crime among young men.

HEALTH INEQUALITY

2022.08.30

Physician-patient match matters

Ida Lykke Kristiansen from CEBI and her co-author Sophie Yanying Sheng from University College San Diego have investigated the importance of the match between primary care physicians and patients.

MENTAL HEALTH

2022.08.17

N. Meltem in keynote: Antidepressants increase children’s test scores

At the fifth Essen Economics of Mental Health Workshop that took place on July 18-20 N. Meltem Daysal was invited to give keynote along with Janet Currie.

Economy

2022.07.22

Users of high-cost loans have personality traits in common

High-cost consumer loans are controversial and the subject of much debate. But who typically takes out such loans – and what is the money used for? Economist Emil Toft Hansen has investigated the matter.

AWARD

2022.06.23

Frederik Plesner Lyngse wins Best Paper Award prize

Gender gaps in performance and pay are pervasive in high-skilled occupations, and they display a clear widening pattern following the early career and the subsequent arrival of children.

HEALTH ECONOMICS

2022.06.17

Torben Heien Nielsen keynote at IZA Workshop on Gender and Family Economics

Severe illness and subsequent deaths are among the most devastating shocks households face and a major source of financial risk.

2022.06.16

Claus T. Kreiner gave talk about CEBI research at the annual professor’s dinner at The University of Copenhagen.

Claus Kreiner was invited to give one of this year’s talks at the Professors dinner on 9 June at the University of Copenhagen. The talk explained the research at the Center for Economic Behavior and Inequality (CEBI)…

behavioral economics

2022.06.01

We don’t have time to implement ineffective policies

Investing 15 minutes of our time watching Christina Gravert’s TED talk will highlight the necessity of running test before millions of dollars are spent on programmes that may – or may very well not – work.

Wealth inequality

2022.05.31

Stable intergenerational wealth

When Meltem Daysal and co-authors Michael F Lovenheim, and David N Wasser study the intergenerational correlation of wealth there are three key insights that emerge.

HEALTH ECONOMICS

2022.05.11

Universal Early-Life Health Policies in the Nordic Countries

The Journal of Economic Perspectives (JEP) has invited Miram Wüst to share her knowledge on Early-Life Health Policies

IMPACT

2022.05.10

Expert committees for sustainable development in the social field

Mette Gørtz will take one of seven seats in the new committee.

IMPACT

2022.04.29

CEBI research informs POTUS

Jeppe Druedahl, Mette Ejrnæs, Thomas Jørgensen, and Jakob Søgaard have published research results that form part of the US Economic Report of the President 2022.

2022.04.26

2nd. Workshop on “Behavioral responses to health innovations and the consequences for socioeconomic outcomes” 29-30 August 2022

CALL FOR PAPERS, submission deadline June 1, 2022

IMPACT

2022.04.21

Expert group for the reform of future business support

Niels Johannesen and Jeppe Druedahl have been selected to form part of a new expert group that has been set up to assess the future public Danish business support.

PUBLIC BUDGET AND CHILD PROTECTION

2022.03.25

Can strict budget adherence influence child protection decisions?

New research by Petra Gram Cavalca, Mette Ejrnæs and Mette Gørtz investigates the trade-off between budget adherence and supplying child protections in Danish municipalities

2022.03.23

CESifo Area Conference on Public Economics 2022 led by area director Claus Kreiner

The 2022 Area Conference on Public Economics will take place online this week from Thursday 24 March - Saturday 26 March, and will be led by the Area Director, Claus Thustrup Kreiner (CEBI, University of Copenhagen).

2022.03.23

Claus Kreiner gave a keynote at the 1st Berlin workshop on Empirical Public Economics

Claus presented the research program of CEBI and gave an overview of the key findings.

GENDER

2022.03.21

No Evidence that Siblings’ Gender Affects Personality

Does growing up with a sister rather than a brother affect personality? The short answer is no.

Crime

2022.02.16

Impatient and risk-tolerant people more often become criminals

A new study published in the prestigious journal PNAS confirms the assumption that risk-tolerant, impatient and self-centered people are more likely to commit crimes than risk averse, patient and altruistic people are. …

INEQUALITY IN INCOME

2022.02.16

Are some forms of inequality seen as more unfair than others?

Kristoffer Balle Hvidberg and Claus Thustrup Kreiner from CEBI have studied people’s perception of inequality together with Stefanie Stantcheva from Harvard University and published thair findings in the working paper…

CLIMATE

2022.02.10

Climate policy is also about behavior

The expert commission has released their first report advising politicians on how to achieve the Danish ambitious goal of a 70% reduction in greenhouse gasses by 2030. The 122 pages document has been underway for a year…

BEHAVIOR

2022.02.04

Economists' economic behavior

Congrats to you who are an economist! "Economists have a lower risk of ending up with unpaid debt", says Kristoffer Balle Hvidberg from CEBI.

HIGHLIGT

2022.01.26

Nature Communications highlights Frederik Lyngse

The editors at Nature Communications have put together an Editors’ Highlights webpage of recent research called Public health. Putting together the page Catherine Smith chose to feature Frederik's article, entitled…

LISTEN

2022.01.24

Inequality in housework

Norwegian Robin Havre thought he did most of the housework - until a quarrel with his girlfriend made him create an app to map the share of housework. It turns out his share was below 40%. And Robin's share in housework…

CEBI RESEARCH STORIES

2022.01.18

CEBI stories

What is the role of behavior for inequality in society? Center for Economic Behavior and Inequality (CEBI) answers this question. And now a new publication filled with stories about our results is out.

Wealth inequality

2022.01.17

The Intergenerational Transmission of Housing Wealth

The study was presented at American Economic Association Annual Meeting, ASSA on Saturday 8th of January and you can watch the entire presentation as webcast. The study's focus is on housing wealth shocks because housin…

COVID-19

2022.01.06

Frederik Lyngse in WHO Technical Advisory Group

In June 2020, WHO established an informal Virus Evolution Expert Working Group to specifically assess SARS-CoV-2 evolution, mutations and variants. This independent group of experts, called Technical Advisory Group on…

HEALTH

2022.01.05

Germs in the family

By Meltem Daysal, Hui Ding, Maya Rossin-Slater, Hannes Schwandt The COVID-19 pandemic has reignited interest in understanding the societal costs of infectious diseases, which are often measured in terms of their direc…

IMPACT

2021.12.14

Pol Campos-Mercade in committee with Spanish government

Pol Campos-Mercade participates in Spanish committee on experimenting, designing, implementing and evaluating public policies

COVID-19

2021.12.14

Estimation of covid-19 transmission rates

Frederik Plesner Lyngse in Nature communications: Increased transmissibility of SARS-CoV-2 lineage B.1.1.7 by age and viral load

Gender equality

2021.12.08

Does earmarked paternity leave shape gender norms?

The Carlsberg Foundation has granted Jakob Søgaard 4.5 mio DKK to extend our understanding of preferences and provide valuable information on the design of parental leave and public policies more broadly.

COVID-19

2021.12.07

Promoting social distancing in a pandemic: Beyond good intentions

Sarah Zaccagni and Paolo Falco publish in PLOS ONE

HEALTH

2021.11.30

Germs in the Family have long term consequences

Meltem Daysal: younger siblings' reduction in the likelihood of high school graduation is caused by higher rates of hospitalization

PRIZE

2021.11.19

Prize for best thesis in labour market economics

CEBI PhD Camilla Skovbo Christensen is honoured in the Ministry of Employment for her thesis, ”Retirement Policies and Private Savings Behavior: Evidence from a Reform of the Old-Age Pension Scheme” with co-author…

THE CHILD PENALTY

2021.11.17

Jakob Søgaard's research in Goldin's monograph

Claudia Goldin traces women's journey to close the gender wage gap in her new monograph and refers to Jakob Søgaards research on 'the child penalty'.

TOP 5

2021.11.11

Johannes Wohlfart in the Review of Economic Studies

Subjective Models of the Macroeconomy: Evidence From Experts and Representative Samples

2021.10.26

Niels Johannesen's’ paper downloaded 90.000 times

Elite Capture of Foreign Aid: Evidence from Offshore Bank Accounts” by CEBI member Niels Johannesen is by far the most downloaded among the 9000+ working papers ever published by the World Bank.

2021.10.12

Mathematics camps: A gift for gifted students?

Sarah Zaccagni and co-authors publish in Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization

Covid-19

2021.10.07

Vaccine ‘pocket money’ is controversial - but it works

Can a few hundred kroner motivate people to be vaccinated? Yes, to a certain extent, shows a research project anchored in the Center for Economic Behavior and Inequality, University of Copenhagen.

2021.10.05

CEBI economist on front page of Berlingske Business

In a 2-page interview on the relevance of Karl Marx today, Jeppe Druedahl argues that the questions Marx were asking on, for example, the nature of capitalist crisis and the role of economic power are still relevant…

2021.09.21

CEBI research on earmarked parental leave

Jakob Egholt Søgaard and Thomas H. Jørgensen’s research on Welfare Reforms and the Division of Parental Leave shows that more than one out of four fathers do not intend to use the earmarked nine weeks of paternity leave…

2021.09.02

Financing Constraints, Home Equity and Selection into Entrepreneurship

Søren Leth-Petersen and co-authors’ research accepted for publication in Journal of Financial Economics.

2021.07.08

Cognitive Consequences of Iodine Deficiency in Adolescence: Evidence from Salt Iodization in Denmark

Benjamin Ly Serena's research to be published in The Scandinavian Journal of Economics

2021.07.01

PhD student Isabel Skak Olufsen presents her research on Inequality in Life Satisfaction

Isabel will present at the ifo Conference on "Genes, Social Mobility, and Inequalities across the Life-Course”

2021.06.30

Do elites capture foreign aid?

Niels Johannesen and co-authors publish in Journal of Political Economy

2021.06.21

Welfare Reforms and the Division of Parental Leave

Thomas H. Jørgensen and Jakob E. Søgaard's CESifo working paper, featured in the latest CESifo newsletter.

2021.06.16

Health Meets Public Economics

CEBI researchers Torben Heien Nielsen, Miriam Wüst and Asger Lau Andersen to present their findings on CEPR Public Economics Annual Symposium on 23 - 24 June, 2021to present their findings on CEPR Public Economics Annua…

2021.06.01

Niels Johannesen will give the keynote lecture at the IEB Summer Workshop on the Economics of Taxation

The lecture is entitled “Globalized tax payers – globalized tax enforcement” and discusses policies to enforce taxes on foreign income.”

2021.06.01

Mette Gørtz in DR1 explaining how demographic changes affects the economy.

Steffen Gram had invited professor Mette Gørtz and professor Flemming Konradsen to comment on the new 3 children policy in China and explain why demographic changes, and the fall in birth rates in many countries, is of…

2021.05.25

How Do Beliefs about the Gender Wage Gap Affect the Demand for Public Policy?

Sonja Settele's paper forthcoming in American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

2021.05.18

Johannes Wohlfart and co-authors publish in Journal of Economic Literature

The research paper "Designing Information Provision Experiments" has been accepted for publication in Journal of Economic Literature

2021.04.15

Meltem Daysal and Mette Gørtz on the evidence on socioeconomic inequality in health

Socioeconomic inequality in health has widened in many high-income countries, including Denmark, over the last decades, despite a high pace of health innovations and public provision of health care.

2021.04.12

Consequences of Serious Parental Health Events on Child Mental Health and Educational Outcomes

New article by PhD student Ida Lykke Kristiansen forthcoming in Health Economics.

2021.04.08

Monetary policy affects inequality

New research from Niels Johannesen and co-authors on Monetary Policy and Inequality hits front page in Børsen

2021.04.07

Miriam Gensowski and co-authors publish in Journal of Research in Personality

The paper "Academic self perceptions in a national Danish sample: Predictive power and development from grade 4 to 9" has now been published in Journal of Research in Personality.

2021.04.07

Sonja Settele, Johannes Wohlfart and Christopher Roth publish in American Economic Review: Insights

The research paper Risk Exposure and Acquisition of Macroeconomic Information forthcoming in American Economic Review: Insights

2021.03.26

Misperception of inequality

Kristoffer Balle Hvidberg and Claus Kreiner behind research explained by collaborator Stefanie Stantcheva from Harvard University.

2021.03.26

CEBI researchers Mette Gørtz and Niels Johannesen promoted to full professors

Congratulation to them both! You can read more about Mette Gørtz here and about Niels Johannesen at the Departments webpage here

2021.03.26

Mette Gørtz comments on the fall in birthrates in Denmark in Videnskab.dk

The birthrate in Denmark has declined for the 4th. year in a row.

2021.03.22

Interview with Claus Kreiner in DJØF magazine describing CEBI research

Claus Kreiner describes how CEBI research results gave input to actual policy making under the current Covid-19 pandemic.

2021.03.17

Claus Kreiner gives keynote lecture

Claus Kreiner gives keynote lecture on the Power of Administrative Data for Public Policy Analysis at the inaugural A-LIFE Conference/Empirical Public Economics Workshop on March 18-19

2021.03.12

Thomas H. Jørgensen publish in Review of Economics and Statistics.

The research paper Sensitivity to Calibrated Parameters has been accepted for publication in Review of Economics and Statistics.

2021.03.10

Prosociality predicts health behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic

Pol Campos-Mercade and co-authors publish paper in Journal of Public Economics.

2021.03.01

CEBI PhDs recruited in Milan and London

Benedikt and Esteban to take up postdoc positions at the University of Milan and at the Institute of Fiscal Studies in London.

2021.02.25

Claus Thustrup Kreiner and Peter Birch Sørensen in new expert committee

A Danish expert group to determine the framework for a uniform CO2e tax has now been set up. Department of Economics take 2 of the 6 seats in the expert proup.

2021.02.19

New study explores the impact of self-control problems on household saving

The paper ‘Estimating temptation and commitment over the life cycle’ by Patrick Moran and co-author's is published in the International Economic Review.

2021.02.19

Elite Capture of Foreign Aid: Evidence from Offshore Bank Accounts

Niels Johannesen presented recent research at Stanford University on 17 February.

2021.02.18

Social Position and Fairness Views

Claus T. Kreiner presented his and co-authors paper at University of California, San Diego on 8 February.

2021.01.27

The research paper "Inequality in Personality over the Life Cycle"

by Mette Gørtz, Miriam Gensowski and Stefanie Schurer accepted in Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization

2021.01.27

The research paper “Home Prices, Fertility, and Early-Life Health Outcomes” by Meltem Daysal and co-authors

has been accepted for publication in Journal of Public Economics.

2021.01.26

Mette Gørtz in virtual conversation on "Society after Corona - better health for all?"

On 10 February The Faculty of Social Sciences is hosting a virtual debate on the topic "Society after Corona - better health for all?"

health

2021.01.04

US health lags behind

Mette Gørtz and co-authors: even if everyone in the US achieved the health outcomes of white US citizens living in the 1% and 5% richest counties, health indicators would still lag behind those in many other countries.

2020.12.08

Claus Thustrup Kreiner: The 2020 Richard Musgrave laureate

When he is laudated The Richard Musgrave Visiting Professorship Claus joins the good company of peers like Raj Chetty, Timothy Besley, Joel Slemrod, Rachel Griffith, and Michael Keen.

2020.12.04

Claus Thustrup Kreiner is organizing the annual CESifo Conference on Public Economics, 8-9 December

The keynote lectures will be held by Fatih Guvenen, University of Minnesota, and Johannes Spinnewijn, London School of Economics.

2020.11.27

The research paper “The volunteer’s dilemma explains the bystander effect” by Pol Campos-Mercade

has been accepted for publication at the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (JEBO).

2020.11.19

Behavioural research impacted corona-stricken Rome

CEBI researcher Sarah Zaccagni and Assistant Professor Paolo Falco both from the Department of Economics, were providing highly topical research when they published their new results this summer on what makes citizens…

2020.11.17

How well do people know their social position relative to others in society and how does it shape their views on fairness?

Answers are provided by CEBI researchers Kristoffer B. Hvidberg and Claus T. Kreiner together with Stefanie Stantcheva from Harvard University.

2020.10.30

CEBI researcher Christina Gravert on Forbes list of 10 behavioral scientist you should know

Christina Gravert studies how people make decisions and how they can be motivated or nudged to "do the right thing" in environmental sustainability, health and charitable giving.

2020.10.30

CEBI visitor Alexandre Kohlhas gave a talk about the working of the international job market for economists

You can see his slides here

2020.10.16

The research paper "Beliefs about Public Debt and the Demand for Government Spending"

by Chris Roth, Sonja Settele and Johannes Wohlfart has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Econometrics

2020.10.06

The paper "Do you have time to take a walk together? Private and joint time within the household"

by Mette Gørtz, Martin Browning and co-author Olivier Donni, accepted for publication in the Economic Journal.

2020.09.30

CEBI member David Dreyer Lassen becomes provost for research at the University of Copenhagen

Professor David Dreyer Lassen will take up a new position as Prorector at the University of Copenhagen on 1 January 2021. He will be in charge of research, innovation and overall relations with foundations and…

2020.09.10

The paper "Nonparametric Analysis of Time-Inconsistent Preferences"

by Martin Browning and Co-authors has been accepted for publication in The Review of Economic Studies.

2020.09.10

COVID-19 Transmission Within Danish Households

A Nationwide Study from Lockdown to Reopening: there is an increasing attack rate and transmission risk of SARS-CoV-2 with age -but children are also able to transmit SARS-CoV-2 within the household.

2020.08.27

Mette Gørtz and Co-author’s publish in Demography

The Paper “The Wealth of Parents: Trends Over Time in Assortative Mating Based on Parental Wealth” by Mette Gørtz, Sander Wagner and Diederik Boertien has now been published in Demography.

2020.08.19

Long-term positive effects of universal preschool programs

Many children spend a substantial share of their early childhood in preschool programs. We know from a large body of literature that early childhood is important for children's development, but we know surprisingly…

2020.08.10

PNAS publication

Social distancing laws cause only small losses of economic activity during the COVID-19 pandemic in Scandinavia

2020.07.16

The Bank of Mum and Dad as young adult's social insurance

New evidence from CEBI researchers, referred to in the Economist, shows that, when short of cash, many young adults turn to their parent.s

2020.07.07

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

covered in article in The New York Times and in Die Welt

2020.06.11

CEBI organizes the Economic Policy Research Network conference June 18

This year the topic is COVID-19: Economic Consequences and Policy Response

2020.06.09

How to stimulate the Danish economy after the COVID-19 lockdown

Recent research from CEBI provides key estimate for the current discussions about the right fiscal stimulus policies to curb the financial downturn after the COVID-19 lockdown.

2020.06.08

Torben Heien Nielsen and Itzik Fadlon's research paper Family Labor Supply Responses to Severe Health Shocks

Evidence from Danish Administrative Records has been accepted for publication in American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

2020.05.22

The contagious nature of a vaccine scare

Mette Gørtz and Mette Ejrnæs find that highly-educated mothers were apparently more sensitive to negative information about HPV vaccine leading to a higher drop in vaccination rates for their daughters

2020.05.20

Miriam Wüst affiliated with IZA and invited to be an associate editor at the Journal of Health Economics

Over 1,400 renowned economists from all parts of the world cooperate with IZA as Research Fellows. Miriam Wüst has been invited to join this group as an IZA research fellow.

2020.05.18

Asger Lau Andersen and Niels Johannesen on Deadline: The impact of the lockdown on economic activity

Most of the economic contraction is caused by the pandemic itself and occurs regardless of whether governments mandate social distancing or not.

2020.05.15

Sarah Zaccagni and Paolo Falco share research results with expert group

In their newly published research Sarah Zaccagni and Paolo Falco find that the reminder significantly increases people’s intentions to stay home when it emphasises the consequences of non-compliance for the respondent…

2020.05.07

Frederik Plesner Lyngse called in as expert

The group advices the Danish government on the implications of re-opening the society during the COVID-19 epidemic.

2020.05.07

CEBI researcher Mette Gørtz in the debate program Deadline on DR2

to comment on the economic expert report and the consequences of re-opening selected sectors in Denmark in the current COVID-19 situation.

2020.05.04

The 90% economy that lockdowns will leave behind

CEBI researchers in The Economist

2020.04.29

The 2020 American Economic Journal: Applied Economics Best Paper Prize have been awarded to CEBI researchers

Jakob Egholt Søgaard and Henrik Kleven (together with Camille Landais) for the paper "Children and Gender Inequality: Evidence from Denmark."

2020.04.24

CEBI research titled “The Informativeness of Estimation Moments”

by Bo Honoré, Thomas H. Jørgensen and Áureo de Paulahas has been accepted for publication in Journal of Applied Econometrics.

2020.03.30

CEBI research forthcoming in JEEA, Journal of the European Economic Association

House prices and spending move together but little is known about the underlying mechanism linking them.

2020.03.20

Jeppe Druedahl on the front page of the Danish newspaper Information

where he lays out the economic consequences of the corona virus and how to deal with it

2020.03.17

Jeppe Druedahl and Thomas H. Jørgensen’s paper entitled “Can Consumers Distinguish Permanent from Transitory Income Shocks?”

has been accepted for publication in The Economic Journal.

2020.03.02

Mette Ejrnæs and Thomas Jørgensen's paper “Family Planning in a Life-Cycle Model with Income Risk"

accepted for publication in Journal of Applied econometrics

2020.02.18

CEBI research on 'elite capture of foreign aid' in global media

The Economist and The Financial Times cover still unpublished research by Niels Johannesen on elite capture of foreign aid (coauthored with Jørgen Juel Andersen and Bob Rijkers).

2020.02.17

Marco Piovesan to teach PhD course on 'How to Survive and Prosper as a Young Academic in Economics'

during Marco Piovesan’s two weeks visit in February at Collegio Carlo Alberto, Turin

2020.02.07

CEBI research accepted for publication in Journal of Public Economics

In recent research, Niels Johannesen and co-authors Johannes Becker and Nadine Riedel study how taxes affect the allocation of risk inside the multinational firm.

2020.01.30

Claus Thustrup Kreiner has been awarded the Richard Musgrave Visiting Professorship 2020 by CESifo

and the International Institute of Public Finance (IIPF), and will give the 12th Richard Musgrave Lecture 19 March 2020.

2020.01.23

Niels Johannesen presents research on Phantom FDI at the Dutch Parliament

Niels Johannesen presents a recent working paper to the Finance Committee at the Dutch Parliament invited by parliamentarians who wish to end the role of the Netherlands in international tax planning.

2020.01.22

In 2019 Behavioral Scientist.org, asked scholars around the world to imagine the next decade of behavioral science

Marco Piovesan was featured in this collection of ideas imagining the next decade of behavioral science

2020.01.06

What is Real and What Is Not in the Global FDI Network?

Niels Johannesen, Jannick Damsgaard and Thomas Elkjaer's paper on Washington Post's list of "best work in political economy in 2019

2020.01.03

Niels Johannesen in American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

The paper “Taxing Hidden Wealth: The Consequences of U.S. Enforcement Initiatives on Evasive Foreign Accounts” (joint with Patrick Langetieg, Daniel Reck, Max Risch and Joel Slemrod), now accepted for publication in…

2019.12.06

CEBI research forthcoming in the American Economic Review

shows that patient people are wealthier

2019.12.03

Margrethe Vestager and Paolo Gentiloni invited Niels Johannesen and IMF peers

Vice-President Margrethe Vestager and tax commissioner Paolo Gentiloni invited Niels Johannesen and IMF research peers who investigated the impact of tax havens on global tax revenues to further inform the commission's…

2019.12.02

Working paper from CEBI member featured on NBER home page

The NBER working paper "Durables and Lemons: Private Information and the Market for Cars", co-autored by Søren Leth-Petersen featured on NBER home page

2019.11.28

Niels Johannesen spoke about information exchange at the Global Forum Meeting

The meeting on 26 November marked the 10th Anniversary of the “Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes”.

2019.11.21

Torben Heien Nielsen receives Sapere Aude grant from the Danish Independent Research Council

for his new research project Skill Formation in the Labor Market for Physicians

2019.11.15

Economists ignite U.S. debate on inequality and redistribution

In the Danish newspaper Information, Simon Halphen Boserup explains the debate and why other U.S. economists are critical of their claims that tax progressivity in America has declined steeply over the last five decades…

2019.11.11

Cortnie Shupe to present at the German Minimum Wage Commision on 12 November

Cortnie will present joint work with Co-author Alexandra Fedorets (DIW Berlin) entitled “Great Expectations: Reservation Wages and Minimum Wage Reform”.

2019.11.07

Niels Johannesen spoke at the Web Summit on 6 November, 2019

At the world’s largest tech conference, Niels discussed the future of taxation in an increasingly globalized and digitalized world.

2019.11.06

Research Assistant Ida Maria Hartmann has accepted an internship at the UN

in the Department of Economic and Social Affairs.

2019.11.01

Claus Thustrup Kreiner is the new Area Director of Public Economics in the CESifo network.

He will be organizing the next Public Economics conference in Münich on 19-21 March 2020

2019.10.31

Adam Sheridan to present “Learning About Social Networks from Mobile Money Transfers”

at NABE conference in Seattle. The increasing popularity of mobile money transfer apps is generating population-scale data on real-world social ties through the social exchange of money.

2019.10.29

Danish car data makes it possible to test known economic theory

Research by Søren Leth-Petersen, Costas Meghir, Richard Blundell, Ran Gu and Hamish Low mentionned in an article on Indblik.net

2019.10.11

Claus Thustrup Kreiner and Hans Henrik Sievertsen in Journal of Health Economics

The paper Neonatal Health of Parents and Cognitive Development of Children is accepted for publication in in the Journal of Health Economics.

2019.10.01

New CEBI working paper featured in the Economist

A lemon is rotting from the inside, i.e. it looks nice on the surface even if it is not good

2019.09.19

Miriam Wüst and Maya Rossin-Slater in American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

The paper" What is the Added Value of Preschool for Poor Children? Long-Term and Intergenerational Impacts and Interactions with an Infant Health Intervention"

2019.09.16

Kristian Hedeager Bentsen and Katrine Marie Jakobsen both presents at the 6th Annual Matax Conference

in Mannheim (Germany) on September 12 and 13.

2019.09.16

Katrine Jakobsen, Henrik Kleven, Kristian Jakobsen & Gabriel Zucman in Quarterly Journal of Economics

The paper "Wealth taxation and wealth accumulation: Theory and evidence from Denmark" accepted for publication in Quarterly journal of Economics

2019.09.11

Torben Heien Nielsen presents at NBER Conference

on "Income and Life Expectancy: What can be Learned from International Comparisons" in Boston on 5 September

2019.09.10

Research by Niels Johannesen on the front page of Financial Times

A large proportion of the world’s stock of foreign direct investment is “phantom” capital

2019.09.06

Søren Leth-Petersen and Johan Sæverud give talk about income inequality

at Stanford conference on Global Income Dynamics, August 30-31, 2019.

2019.09.04

Claus Thustrup Kreiner has been elected as member of the IIPF Board of Management

Read more about the IIPF Board of Management here

2019.08.30

Torben Heien Nielsen and Itzik Fadlon's paper Family Health Behavior

published in The American Economic Review .

2019.08.29

Claus Thustrup Kreiner gives a talk about the Policy Impact of Empirical Research

at the EEA-ESEM 2019 congress in a lunch session organized by the EEA Standing Committee on Research. In his talk, he gives two examples of policy impact from his own empirical research on taxation using Danish data.

2019.08.27

Claus Thustrup Kreiner presents the research paper Time Discounting and Welfare Inequality

at a Workshop in Oslo on Inequality: Measurement, Evolution, Mechanisms and Policies on 26 August

2019.08.27

The CEBI research program Behavioral Heterogeneity, Inequality and Public Policy presented by Claus Thustrup Kreiner at the Oslo Macro Conference on 23 August

The research program is about the role of differences in people’s economic behavior for inequality in society. In his talk, Claus will give examples of this research at CEBI and discuss policy implications. See the…

2019.08.20

CEBI research by Jeppe Druedahl, Mette Ejrnæs and Thomas Jørgensen featured in Vox EU

CEBI research by Jeppe Druedahl, Mette Ejrnæs and Thomas Jørgensen on "Earmarked paternity leave and the relative income within couples", by Jeppe Druedahl, Mette Ejrnæs and Thomas Jørgensen featured in Vox EU

2019.07.24

Gregers Nytoft Rasmussen to present at the 14th Nordic Conference in Behavioral and Experimental Economics

Gregers will present his paper "Upfront premiums in exchange for future coverage: Evidence on intertemporal aspects of insurance" on the conference at Kiel Institute for World Economy (ifW) from 26 -28 September 2019.…

2019.06.25

"Bailing out the kids: New Evidence on Intra-family Insurance from 1 Billion Bank Transfers"

Niels Johannesen presented his paper at a seminar in Helsinki on 7 June and on the CEPR conference in Zurich on 20 June

2019.06.17

Claus Thustrup Kreiner gives keynote talk entitled Behavioral Heterogeneity, Inequality and Public Policy

at a Workshop on Economics of Taxation and Social Expenditure in Barcelona June 4-5, 2019

2019.06.17

Claus Thustrup Kreiner presents research on Time Discounting and Wealth Inequality

at a seminar at the University of Bristol on June 12, 2019.

2019.06.11

David Dreyer Lassen will attend the People’s summit on Bornholm on 15 June

in a debate about private data and digital traces – under the headline “Almost everything you do leaves traces. Come and listen to how researchers can use your data”.

2019.06.11

Torben Heien Nielsen will attend the people’s summit on Bornholm, 14 June

Torben will take part in a debate about inequality in health under the headline “Rather rich and healthy than ill and poor”

2019.05.29

Claus Thustrup Kreiner presents the newest knowledge about behavioral responses to taxation

at a symposium about the Ministry of Finance organized by the Royal Danish Academy of Science and Letters.

2019.05.28

Nick Fabrin Nielsen publishes article in Diabetes Care

Nick Fabrin Nielsen publishes article in Diabetes Care on Socioeconomic Inequality in Metabolic Control Among Children With Type 1 Diabetes: A Nationwide Longitudinal Study of 4,079 Danish Children

2019.05.06

Miriam Wüst, Miriam Gensowski and Torben Heien Nielsen publish in Journal of Health Economics.

Journal of Health Economics accepts for publication the work “Childhood Health Shocks, Comparative Advantages, and Long-term Outcomes: Evidence from the Last Danish Polio Epidemic“, by the three CEBI researchers Miriam…

2019.05.03

Torben Heien Nielsen in American Economic Review

The American Economic Review accepts for publication the paper “Family Health Behaviors” by Torben Heien Nielsen and Itzik Fadlon (UCSD). QUARTZ nominated the working paper version of the same work as one of the most…

2019.04.26

Christina Gravert on this years Talent100 list

She was born in Germany, she did her postdoc in Sweden, and now she is part of our department where here she is assistant professor. She is also the only researcher on this year's Berlingske Business Talent100 list.

2019.04.23

Jeppe Druedahl, Mette Ejrnæs and Thomas H. Jørgensen in Economic Letters

The paper "Earmarked Paternity Leave and the Relative Income within Couples" has been accepted for publication in Economic Letters

2019.04.03

Nick Fabrin Nielsen's chapter ”Sick of Retirement” accepted in Journal of Health Economics

The chapter from Nick Fabrin Nielsen's PhD thesis: ”Sick of Retirement” has been accepted for publication in Journal of Health Economics

2019.04.01

Adam Sheridan succesfully defended his Phd thesis on 29 March and becomes Post Doc at CEBI

Adam succesfully defended his Phd thesis with the title "Essays on Banks, Insurance, and Social Networks

2019.04.01

Can taxes tame the banks? Evidence from the European bank levies

Niels Johannesen, Michael Devereux and John Vella's paper accepted in the Economic Journal

2019.03.15

Benjamin Ly Serena succesfully defended his Phd thesis on 13 March and becomes Post Doc

Benjamin succesfully defended his Phd thesis with the title Essays in Health Economics: Measurement and Policy

2019.03.01

Become PhD student or research assistant at CEBI

CEBI Recruitment Event on Friday 15 March 2019 from 15:15 -16:30 in room 35.3.13, building 35 at CSS

2019.02.21

Jakob Søgaard’s research on ’motherhood penalty’ on Netflix

Motherhood is the biggest cause of the gender pay gap. This is true even in Scandinavia and that is an obvious subject for a Netflix documentary.

2019.02.06

Nick Fabrin Nielsen publishes article in JAMA on the

Association of Type 1 Diabetes With Standardized Test Scores of Danish Schoolchildren

2019.02.04

Top income earners are not particularly rich in a historical perspective – but

their income share has risen sharply in recent decades. Jakob Egholt Søgaards findings featured in article in Berlingske Tidende.

2019.01.30

CALL FOR PAPERS "New Consumption Data" Copenhagen, September 4-5, 2019

We invite you to submit a paper or express interest in attending this conference on New Consumption Data.

2019.01.25

Claus Thustrup Kreiner, Søren Leth-Petersen and Louise Charlotte Willerslev-Olsen in Economic Journal

The Paper Financial Trouble Across Generations: Evidence from the Universe of Personal Loans in Denmark has been accepted for publication in the Economic Journal

2019.01.25

CEBI contributes to the 2019 photo competition of the Danish National Research Foundation

CEBI contributes to the 2019 photo competition of the Danish National Research Foundation You can see CEBI's contribution here

2019.01.24

Niels Johannesen keynote speaker at CPB Symposium in Hague

Niels Johannesen participated at the CPB Symposium "The End of Tax Havens?" Read here for more information about the Symposium

2019.01.18

The Distortive Effects of Too-Big-To-Fail: Evidence from the Danish Market for Retail Deposits

Niels Johannesen, Adam Sheridan and Thais Lærkholm's paper has been accepted in Review of Financial Studies

2019.01.09

Research on family health behaviors by Torben Heien Nielsen one of the most important research results in 2018

The research, nominated by professor Emely Oster, Brown University, in Quartz, finds that having a sick family member significantly increases a person’s investments in their own health.

2019.01.08

Are less developed countries more exposed to multinational tax avoidance?

Niels Johannesen, Thomas Tørsløv and Ludwig Wier's paper has been accepted in World Bank Economic Review

2018.12.12

Claus Thustrup Kreiner presents research on tax compliance

at an invited talk for the Swedish Tax Agency. The presentation "Lessons about tax evasion and tax avoidance from collaboration with the Danish tax agency" was presented for the Swedish Tax Agency in Stockholm.

2018.12.07

Marco Piovesan to visit EIEF and Collegio Carlo Alberto in 2019

In January and February 2019 Marco Piovesan will be visiting the Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance. In April 2019 Piovesan will be visiting Collegio Carlo Alberto.

2018.12.07

Niels Johannesen presents recent paper at Nationalbanken

Niels Johannesen presents his paper “The Distortive Effects of Too-Big-To-Fail: Evidence from the Danish Market for Retail Deposits” at Danmarks Nationalbank.

2018.11.29

Claus Thustrup Kreiner organizes the sessions on Public Economics

at the Econometric Society European Winter Meeting in Naples

2018.11.26

Niels Johannesen presents research at University of St. Andrews

Niels Johannesen presents his paper "The distortive Effects of Too-Big-To-Fail: Evidence from the Danish Market for Retail Deposits"

2018.11.15

David Dreyer Lassen new Chairman of the Board of the Independent Research Fund Denmark

Tommy Ahlers, Minister of Higher Education and Science, has appointed David Dreyer Lassen, Professor of Economics, to become new Chairman of the Board of Independent Research Fund Denmark.

2018.11.13

Niels Johannesen in American Economic Review

The paper "Tax Evasion and Inequality" written with Annette Alstadsæter and Gabriel Zucman, has been accepted for publication in American Economic Review.

2018.11.13

Marco Piovesan has a forthcoming article in Games and Economic Behavior

The paper "Biased Voters, Social Information, and Information aggregation Through Majority Voting" is written with Jean-Robert Tyran and Rebecca Morton,

2018.10.30

New research results, published in PNAS, challenge previous findings

of huge differences in life expectancy between high and low-income individuals.

2018.10.26

Mette Gørtz publishes article in Labour Economics

Mette Gørtz, Eva Rye Johansen and Marianne Simonsen publish article about Academic Achievement and the Gender Composition of Preschool Staff

2018.10.04

PhD student Helene Willadsen presented 2 papers on the 13th. Nordic conference in Behavioral Experimental Economics

Helene Willadsen presented the papers "Gender differences in competitiveness: Evidence from children in Denmark" and "Validating survey measures for children"

2018.10.04

Niels Johannesen presented at University of Barcelona

Niels Johannesen presented his paper "Tax evasion and inequality" at University of Barcelona on 2 October 2018.

2018.10.04

Niels Johannesen will give a talk on the DFF research conference "Grib ideen"

On 11 October Niels Johannesen will give a talk on "Hvem ejer de gemte formuer" Read more about DFF here

2018.10.02

Marco Piovesan has been granted 2,9 million from The Nordea Fund as part of a 78 million grant to the Center for Healthy Aging.

Marco Piovesan will contribute to the research project “Research in the Health and Quality of Life of Senior Citizen”. More Danes must maintain a high quality of life and vitality throughout life. This is the vision and…

2018.09.27

Gregers Nytoft Rasmussen to present at the 13th. Nordic Conference in Behavioral Experimental Economic

Gregers will present his paper "Patience, Risk aversion, and Debt behavior" on the conference at the University of Southern Denmark, 28 - 29 September 2018.

2018.09.18

Søren Leth-Petersen gave a presentation at the Danish Financial Supervisory Board

On 4 September 2018 Søren Leth-Petersen gave a presentation about Consumer debt behavior. You can see slides from the presentation here

2018.09.11

Martin Browning and Mette Ejrnæs has a forthcoming paper in Journal of Political Economy

Together with Sule Alan, Martin Browning and Mette Ejrnæs has a paper titled “Income and Consumption: a Micro Semi-structural Analysis with Pervasive Heterogeneity” forthcoming in Journal of Political Economy Volume 126…

2018.09.11

Miriam Gensowski and Mette Ejrnæs organize Copenhagen Education Network Workshop

The workshop will take place in the Department of Economics at The University of Copenhagen on September 26 with Krzysztof (Chris) Karbownik, Northwestern University as keynote speaker. Krzysztof (Chris) Karbownik will…

2018.09.07

Benjamin Ly Serena to present at IIPF Annual Congress in Tampere

PhD student Benjamin Ly Serena presents his recent research about the importance of Iodine Deficiency for Cognitive Performance at the IIPF Annual Congress in Tampere and at the EEA Annual Congress in Cologne. If you…

2018.09.06

Anne Ardila Brenøe PhD

Anne successfully defended her PhD thesis with the title: Causes and Consequences of Gender Differences in Human Capital Formation. On Monday 3 September we celebrated Anne's title. Here is the abstract: This PhD…

2018.08.16

Gordon Dahl, University of California, San Diego

is visiting CEBI in August and September 2018

2018.08.15

Mette Ejrnæs to present at the EEA Annual Congress in Cologne in August

Mette Ejrnæs will present her joint paper (with Thomas H. Jørgensen) “Intended and Unintended Childbirths in a Life-Cycle model”

2018.08.14

Simon H. Boserup and Claus T. Kreiner publish article in the Economic Journal

Simon H. Boserup and Claus T. Kreiner publish article about wealth and inequality in the Economic Journal

2018.08.13

Mette Gørtz to present at the EEA Annual Congress in Cologne in August

Mette Gørtz will present her joint paper (with Martin Browning and Olivier Donni) “Do you have time to take a walk together”

2018.07.30

Niels Johannesen cited in The New York Times

Niels Johannesen, Gabriel Zucman and Anette Alstadsæter's paper "“Who Owns the Wealth in Tax Havens? Macro Evidence and Implications for Global Ineqality" cited by Thomas B. Edsall in The New York Times

2018.06.04

CEPR Annual Public Economics Symposium 2018

CEBI is organizing the CEPR Annual Public Economics Symposium on June 21-22, 2018

2018.05.11

Alexander Sebald organizes workshop on Limited attention, selective perception and bounded rationality in decision making

Recent years have seen growing empirical and experimental evidence suggesting that people’s attention is often limited and predictively drawn to specific features of their choice environments. Against the background of…

2018.05.11

Mette Ejrnæs is co-organizer of the Review of Economic Studies Tour 2018

Mette Ejrnæs is co-organizer of the Review of Economic Studies Tour 2018 and the 30th year Anniversary Reunion of the Review of Economic Studies Tour taking place in Copenhagen from May 14 to May 18

2018.05.09

Kreiner, Lassen and Leth-Petersen publishes in American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

Liquidity Constraints Tightness and Consumer Responses to Fiscal Stimulus Policy

2018.04.26

Marco Piovesan and Jan O. Haerter organize workshop on The Niels Bohr Campus

Experimental Economics meets Statistical Physics.

2018.04.26

Miriam Gensowski publishes article in The Harvard Business Review

"These 3 Personality Traits Affect What You Earn - but only After Age 40"

2018.03.07

Jakob Egholt Søgaard and Henrik Kleven in New York Times

New York Times, the Economist, TV2 news, DR radioavisen, Berlingske, Slate, vox, Quartz, Jyllandsposten, Kristeligt Dagblad have directed their attention towards CEBI research: Jakob Egholt Søgaard and Henrik Kleven…

2018.03.06

Niels Johannesen and co-authors publish NBER working paper

Enforcement-driven disclosures increase annual reported capital income by $2.5-$4 billion

2018.03.06

New NBER working paper by CEBI researchers Katrine Jakobsen and Henrik Kleven

New NBER working paper by CEBI researchers Katrine Jakobsen and Henrik Kleven entitled "Wealth Taxation and Wealth Accumulation: Theory and Evidence from Denmark" Abstract Using administrative wealth records from…

2018.02.23

Torben Heien Nielsen featured in Journal of Public Economics

In a new publication in Journal of Public Economics Itzik Fadlon, UCSD, and CEBI researcher Torben Heien Nielsen show that household labor supply behavior and responses to shocks hold valuable information for the optima…

2018.02.21

Niels Johannesen publishes in Journal of Public Economics

"Who owns the wealth in tax havens? Macro evidence and implications for global inequality".

2018.02.05

Marco Piovesan in bestseller

Daniel Pink’s “When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing” refers to Marco Piovesan’s paper published last year in PNAS.

2018.01.16

Miriam Gensowski publishes in Labour Economics

An interaction of traits with education reveals that personality matters most for highly educated men.

2018.01.12

Working paper on NBER home page

CEBI member Torben Heien Nielsen and Itzik Fadlons new NBER working paper "Family Health Behaviors" is featured on the NBER home page.

2018.01.05

New project on behavioral responses

Mette Gørtz starts up a new research project studying the formation of health inequality

2017.12.15

Gregers Nytoft Rasmussen PhD

Gregers successfully defended his PhD thesis with the title Patience, Risk Aversion, and Economic Behavior: Combining Experimental Data with Administrative Register Data. On Friday December 15th we celebrated Greger's…

2017.11.14

Johannesen in the American Economic Review

How does a financial crisis spread to the real economy?

2017.11.07

First CEBI working papers

The first four issues of our CEBI working paper series are out already. We share results on the subjects 'evidence from the universe of personal loans in Denmark', 'long-run saving dynamics', 'tax evasion and…

2017.09.12

Kreiner presents the CEBI programme at Nationalbanken

CEBI asks 'in relation to inequality what is the role of peoples' different choices in education, job, consumption, mortgage, and pension?

2017.09.01

Latsis Prize to Thomas Epper

CEBI member Thomas Epper was honoured for his achievements when HSG celebrated its dies academicus with University members and guests from politics, academia, business and the general public.