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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.

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

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

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

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

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.…

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…

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…

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.

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?

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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)…

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.

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.

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

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

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.

CALL FOR PAPERS, submission deadline June 1, 2022

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.

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

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).

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

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

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. …

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…

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…

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

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…

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…

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.

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…

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…

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…

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

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

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.

Sarah Zaccagni and Paolo Falco publish in PLOS ONE

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

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…

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'.

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

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.

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

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.

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…

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…

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

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

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

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

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

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…

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

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…

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

has been accepted for publication in Journal of Public Economics.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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…

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

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.

You can see his slides here

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

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

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…

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

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.

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.

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…

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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…

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

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

CEBI researchers in The Economist

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

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

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

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

has been accepted for publication in The Economic Journal.

accepted for publication in Journal of Applied econometrics

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).

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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…

shows that patient people are wealthier

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…

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

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

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

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…

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

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

in the Department of Economic and Social Affairs.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

in Mannheim (Germany) on September 12 and 13.

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

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

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

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

Read more about the IIPF Board of Management here

published in The American Economic Review .

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.

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

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

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.…

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

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

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

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”.

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

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

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

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…

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…

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

at the Econometric Society European Winter Meeting in Naples

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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…

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

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

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…

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…

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…

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…

is visiting CEBI in August and September 2018

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

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

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

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

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

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…

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

Liquidity Constraints Tightness and Consumer Responses to Fiscal Stimulus Policy

Experimental Economics meets Statistical Physics.

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

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…

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

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…

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…

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

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

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

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

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

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…

How does a financial crisis spread to the real economy?

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…

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

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.