22 May 2026
CEBI PhD student Malthe Hauschildt Veje has been awarded a Fulbright Grant
Malthe Hauschildt Veje has been awarded a Fulbright Grant of 200,000 DKK to fund a full-year research stay at Princeton University in 2027, hosted by Professor Henrik Kleven.
The visit centers on two main purposes. First, to advance Malthe's ongoing collaboration with Professor Kleven – one of the world's leading economists in the study of inequality and policy design. Second, to further develop his independent research agenda on the behavioral and institutional foundations of economic inequality and opportunity.
Malthe and Professor Kleven are currently working on a joint project, together with Professor Claus Thustrup Kreiner and Jakob Søgaard from CEBI, studying how fairness concerns within workplaces shape wage inequality. The central idea of this project is that employees tend to care more about wage differences within workplaces – especially among coworkers doing similar jobs – than across firms, and that firms may therefore compress wages internally to maintain employees' effort, morale, and retention. The project formalizes this in a theoretical model and combines it with empirical evidence from Danish employer-employee administrative data, showing that within-firm wage compression is a quantitatively important force in wage-setting and may be an important driver of worker sorting across firms.
At Princeton, Malthe will work in close collaboration with Professor Kleven to further develop and consolidate the theory and empirics of this project. In addition, he plans to use his time at Princeton to further develop a new single-authored project within his broader research agenda on economic inequality.
Princeton is one of the world's leading research environments in labor and public economics, and Malthe looks forward to engaging with its seminars, workshops, and community of leading scholars. He expects the stay to be an exceptional academic opportunity, and that both projects will benefit greatly from the regular feedback and input this environment has to offer.