Jonas Hedegaard Hansen
Welcome
I was a researcher at the Department of Political Science at the University of Copenhagen from 2013-2017.
I left academia in 2017 and now work as a civil servant. I leave this website and most of my research here as a referral point, but I do not expect much to happen to this site.
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E-mail: hedegaardhansen@gmail.com
Research
Most of my research has been on various types of political behavior with an applied quantitative methods approach. In addition to my academic writings, I have used a large part of my time on applying insights from behavioral sciences to increase the efficiency of interventions from public and private organizations.
My PhD dissertation, which I successfully defended in May 2017, is about voter turnout and mobilization. In the dissertation, I demonstrate how individuals' social environment causally affects their turnout behavior. I do this using both Get-Out-The-Vote (GOTV) field experiments, panel data studies, observational studies and regression discontinuity designs.
I was a part of a large research project entitled Causal Effects on Turnout at the Centre for Voting and Parties at the University of Copenhagen from 2013-2017. The project group consisted of Kasper Møller Hansen (PI), Yosef Bhatti, Jens Olav Dahlgaard and myself. We conducted 10+ GOTV field experiments in Denmark in collaboration with different organizations.
I have most-often applied quantitative methods. I have conducted several field and survey experiments. Furthermore, I have multiple papers using panel data as well as cross-sectional surveys.