Publications
25. How the Other Half Died: Immigration and Mortality in US Cities, Review of Economic Studies, 2024, Volume 91, Issue 1 (with Philipp Ager, James Feigenbaum, and Hui Ren Tan). Media: Frankfurter Allgemeine (in German)
24. National and Global Impacts of Genetically Modified Crops, American Economic Review: Insights, 2023, Volume 5, No.2 (with Asger M. Wingender)
23. The Effect of Immigration Restrictions on Local Labor Markets: Lessons from the 1920s Border Closure, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2023, Volume 15, No. 1, 164-91 (with Ran Abramitzky, Philipp Ager, Leah Boustan, and Elior Cohen). Media: Bloomberg, Forbes, Economist,VOX Talk Animation from Econ-i-mate. Subsumes the permanent working paper: Ager and Hansen (2017). Media (Ager and Hansen, 2017): The Conversation Videnskab.dk Sciencenordic
22. Life-Cycle Labor Supply and Physiological Aging across Countries, PLOS One, 2023 with Carl-Johan Dalgaard and Holger Strulik
21. Physiological Aging around the World, PLOS One, 2022 (with Carl-Johan Dalgaard and Holger Strulik)
20. The 1918 Epidemic and a V-shaped Recession: Evidence from Municipal Income Data Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2021 (with Christian M. Dahl and Peter Sandholt Jensen). WP: in CEPR: Covid Economics, Issue 6. Media: Information (in Danish) Finans.dk (in Danish) Fyens Stiftstidende (in Danish)
19. Two Blades of Grass: The Impact of the Green Revolution Journal of Political Economy, August 2021, Volume 129, Issue 8, 2344-2384 (with Douglas Gollin and Asger Wingender) Online Appendix Media: PJ MEDIA, Economist VoxEU (also in VoxDev), Marginal Revolution
18. Fetal Origins – A Life Cycle Model of Health and Aging from Conception to Death Health Economics, March 2021 (with Carl-Johan Dalgaard and Holger Strulik)
17. Temperature, Disease, and Death in London: Analyzing Weekly Data for the Century from 1866-1965 Journal of Economic History, March 2021, Volume 81, Issue 1 (with Walker Hanlon and Jake Kantor) Media: EEA non-technical summary; VoxEU
16. How the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake Shaped Economic Activity in the American West Explorations in Economic History, July 2020, Volume 87, (with Philipp Ager, Katherine Eriksson, and Lars Lønstrup . Media: VoxEU; L.A. Times
15. Controlling Tuberculosis? Evidence from the First Community-Wide Health Experiment Journal of Development Economics, September 2020, Volume 47 (with Karen Clay, Peter Juul Egedesø, Peter Sandholt Jensen, and Avery Calkins. Media: VoxEU; Weekendavisen (Danish)
14. Preventing the White Death: Tuberculosis Dispensaries Economic Journal, July 2020, Volume 130, issue 6, 1288-1316 (with Peter Juul Egedesø and Peter Sandholt Jensen)
13. Fertility and early-life mortality: Evidence from smallpox vaccination in Sweden Journal of the European Economic Association, April 2018 Volume 16, Issue 2, 487–521 (with Philipp Ager and Peter Sandholt Jensen)
12. The Fertility Transition in the US: Schooling or Income? Macroeconomics Dynamics, September 2018, Volume 22, Issue 6, 584-1612, (with Peter Sandholt Jensen and Lars Lønstrup)
11. Life Expectancy and Education: Evidence from the Cardiovascular Revolution Journal of Economic Growth, December 2017, Volume 22, Issue 4, 421–450 (with Holger Strulik)
10. Modern Gender Roles and Agricultural History: The Neolithic Inheritance, Journal of Economic Growth, 2015, 20(4), 365–404, (with Peter Sandholt Jensen and Christian Skovsgaard).
9. The Rise in Life Expectancy and Economic Growth in the 20th Century, Economic Journal, 2015, 125 (May), 838-852. (with Lars Lønstrup).
8. How Much Did China's WTO Accession Increase Economic Growth in Resource-Rich Countries? China Economic Review, 2014, 30 (September), 16–26. (with Thomas Barnebeck Andersen, Mikkel Barslund, Thomas Harr, and Peter Sandholt Jensen).
7. Cause of Death and Development in the US, Journal of Development Economics, 2014, 109 (July), 143-153, Slides, Online Appendix
6. Life Expectancy and Human Capital: Evidence from the International Epidemiological Transition, Journal of Health Economics, 2013, 32(6), 1142-1152.
5. The Diffusion of Health Technologies: Cultural and Biological Divergence, European Economic Review, 2013, 64 (November), 21-34 , Online Appendix.
4. Health and Development: A Neoclassical Perspective, Journal of Human Capital, 2013, 7(3), 274-295.
3. Economic Growth and Individualism: The Role of Informal Institutions, Economics Letters, 2013, 118(2), 378-380.
2. Can Higher Life expectancy Induce more Schooling and Earlier Retirement?, Journal of Population Economics, 2012, 25(4), 1249-1264. (with Lars Lønstrup)
1. The Relation between Wealth and Health: Evidence from a World Panel of Countries, Economics Letters, 2012, 115(2), 175–176