Ekstern finansierede projekter

Tax Enforcement Across Borders

This project examines a recent global initiative aimed at addressing international tax evasion and modernizing tax enforcement for the global economy: automatic information exchange. The project investigates the new…

Behavioral barriers to electricity demand management

The green transition of electricity supply requires us to change our electricity consumption habits. What stands in the way of us using electricity more flexibly?

Behavioral foundations of Technology Adoption: Bridging the Energy-Efficiency gap (BeTA-BEE)

BeTA-BEE, investigates why people are not adopting energy-efficient technologies in their homes, despite the potential for significant cost savings and environmental benefits.

Corporate Waste Governance

How is a company's waste production and recycling affected by owners, managers, employees and lenders? Waste from the manufacturing of new materials for products accounts for a significant proportion of global greenhous…

Coded Clues: Unraveling Learning at High Resolution

Andreas Bjerre-Nielsen examines the potential of Intelligent Tutoring Systems in improving student learning, measuring progress, and assessing potential learning inequities.

Shaping the Corporate Management Culture

How do management values and corporate culture contribute to the decline in labor's share of national income? Daniel le Maire will answer this overarching question.

Child penalties unpacked

We will shed light on the fundamental drivers of "child penalties": the divergence of labor market outcomes among men and women after the birth of their first child.

Climate Change Mitigation in Agroforest Landscapes through Sustainable Sourcing Policies (CAFSUS)

CAFSUS examines the implications of the EUDR for: landscape cover, household livelihoods, value chain structures, and systems of global environmental governance applying the advanced social and data science methods to…

Economic Research and Policy Making in Kenya

This project helps provide evidence-based research in key policy areas to assist the GoK in its pursuit of necessary economic reforms – by providing evidence of how such reforms would likely impact the economy, on the…

Energy transition and climate-smart agriculture in Vietnam (ETCAV)

This project aims to help fill this gap in the literature, with the overall goal of contributing to policy discussions and actions, addressing the key defining economic and political issue of our time.

The Danish Refugee Cohort: Early Integration and Mental Health

DARECO creates a cohort study of individuals, who were displaced due to the war in Ukraine and resettled in Denmark, with two primary objectives. We will provide 1) knowledge for accurate screening for post-traumatic…

The role of preferences and beliefs in shaping physician careers

Equal access to qualified healthcare requires recruitment and retainment of specialists across geographic areas and medical specialties, as well as retainment of talent in medical research.

Econometric Theory and Applications of Duration and Event Time Models in Economics and Finance

Anders Rahbeks's project defines an entirely new field of research for the econometric analysis of timing and duration of transactions in economics and finance.

Implementation and perception in school choice

This project will push the boundaries of scientific knowledge on the design and inner workings of school admission systems that are based on school choice.

Labor Supply and Inequality within Families (LIFE)

Thomas Høgholm Jørgensen will fill a research gap investigating how tax and transfer policies can affect labor supply and inequality within families.

Household behavior below the zero bound

The dramatic drop in interest rates is one of the most salient macroeconomic developments in recent decades. In this project, we study empirically how negative interest rates affect household decisions about consumption…

Modelling Economic Agents as Deep Reinforcement Learners

Jeppe Druedahl endows economic agents with artificial intelligence by assuming they behave as if they solve their mathematical optimization problems imperfectly with deep reinforcement learning.

Welfare and economic development: Lessons from the origins of the welfare state

We will quantitatively investigate the origins of the welfare state and the resulting distributional and economic consequences.

Data & Evidence to end Extreme Poverty (DEEP)

We focus at the world’s poorest people in their efforts to escape extreme poverty when contributing to new global and national data that governments, decision makers, citizens and researchers can use to improve lives.

Does earmarked paternity leave shape gender norms?

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GREENCAR - Green Transition of the Car Fleet

Transitioning the car fleet to zero emission vehicles will take decades and will require a series of large tax reforms. Quantitative policy analysis tools are needed to guide policy.

Globalization and the Decline of Unions

Jakob Roland Munch studies the unions. Labor unions have traditionally been an integral part of the welfare state, but union membership rates are declining across most developed countries, including Denmark, and there i…

Public sector leadership

Morten Bennedsen leads this project asking “to what extent does leadership matter for outcomes, productivity and employee wellbeing in the Public Sector in Denmark?”

The role of networks in shaping health inequality

With this project Torben Heien Nielsen aims to disentangle behavioral network spillovers and their interaction with changing social insurance programs as well as advances in the health care sector in shaping inequality…

What is keeping unemployed workers from finding employment?

The role of information, job characteristics, and behavioral biases.

EduQuant: Research unit for quantitative research on children and education

With support from the Ministry of Children and Education, the research unit, EduQuant, aims to strengthen quantitative research into children and education by building more evidence and conducting new impact studies. At…

Shocking Religion

Why are some societies more educated, richer, or more productive? Shocking Religion will use econometric techniques on a topic that draws on religious studies.

Behavioral responses to health innovations and the consequences for socioeconomic outcomes

The continuously growing gap in health is a challenge for society that the research team from the Department of Economics at the University of Copenhagen will shed light on over the next 4 years. Mette Gørtz is the…

CEBI Center of Excellence: Economic Behavior and Inequality

CEBI asks: What is the role of individual behavior in generating unequal outcomes? Answering this question is fundamental for understanding the sources of inequality, how policy affects inequality, and how circumstances…