Publications
Published research papers
National and Global Impacts of Genetically Modified Crops. Joint with Casper Worm Hansen. American Economic Review: Insights, 5 (2): 224-40. (Ungated WP version) (VoxEU)
Jumping the Gun: How Dictators Got Ahead of Their Subjects. Joint with Jacob Hariri. The Economic Journal, Volume 133, Issue 650, February 2023, Pages 728–760 (Featured article)
Two Blades of Grass: The Impact of the Green Revolution. (Online appendix) Joint with Douglas Gollin and Casper Worm Hansen. Journal of Political Economy (2021), 129(8)
A Consistent Measure of Hours Worked for International Productivity Comparisons. Economic Letters, Vol. 166, May 2018, Pages 14-17.
Irrigation and Autocracy. Joint with Jeanet Bentzen and Nicolai Kaarsen. Journal of the European Economic Association (2017) 15 (1): 1-53 (Lead article).
Skill Complementarity and the Dual Economy. The European Economic Review, Vol. 74, February 2015, Pages 296-285.
Monetary Policy Shocks and Risk Premia in the Interbank Market. The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics: Vol. 11 : Iss. 1 (Topics), Article 4, 2011.
Forthcoming papers
Arms Technology and the Coercive Imbalance Outside Western Europe. Joint with Jacob Hariri. Forthcoming in Journal of Politics
Working papers
Who fed China? Joint with Casper Worm Hansen. (VoxEU)
Technology Trees in Models of Endogenous Growth.
Structural Transformation in the 20th Century: A New Database on Agricultural Employment Around the World. The data set is available here.
Newspaper articles (in Danish)
Gymnasiematematik har stor betydning for fremtidig indtjening. Altinget, 29. august 2017
Man gjorde en generation af gymnasieelever til forsøgskaniner - og kender ikke engang resultatet. Altinget, 14. september 2017
Other Publications
Triumph of the City by Ed Glaeser. Book review, Tidsskriftet Politik , vol .14(3), s. 70
Unified Growth Theory by Oded Galor. Book review, Tidsskriftet Politik , vol .14(4), s. 70-74.
Why Nations Fail by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson. Book review, Tidsskriftet Politik , vol .15(2), s. 70-74.
Reports for Produktivitetskommissionen (The Productivity Commission), including Det handler om velstand of velfærd, Danmarks produktivitet – hvor er problemerne?, and Uddannelse og innovation