Publications

Labour Markets, Gender & Family:                                                                                                              

• “Probabilities of Job Choice and Employer Selection and Male-Female Occupational Differences,” American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, Vol. 83, No. 2, pp. 57-61, 1993

• “A Specification Test of the Determinants of Male-Female Occupational Differences,” Economics Letters, Vol. 44, pp. 197-203, 1994                        

• “Children and Career Interruptions: The Family Gap in Denmark” (joint with N. Smith), Economica, Vol. 69, No. 276, pp. 609-629, 2002

• “The Impact of Worker and Establishment-Level Characteristics on Male-Female Wage Differentials: Evidence from Danish Matched Employer-Employee Data” (joint with D. Rothstein), LABOUR: Review of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations, Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 1-34, 2005

• “Swimming Upstream, Floating Downstream: Comparing Women’s Wage Progress in the U.S. and Denmark” (joint with R.L. Oaxaca and N. Smith), Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Vol. 59, No. 2, pp. 243-266, 2006

• “Analyzing Trends in U.S. and Danish Gender Wage Gaps in the 1980s and 1990s” (joint with R.L. Oaxaca and N. Smith), Applied Economics Letters, Vol. 13, pp. 643-647, 2006

• “Is Marriage Poisonous? Are Relationships Taxing? An Analysis of the Male Marital Wage Differential in Denmark” (joint with L. Stratton and N. Smith), Southern Economic Journal Vol. 42, No. 2, 412-433, 2007

• “Are Women Falling Behind in the New Economy? – Gender Gaps in New Skills and Competences,” Swedish Economic Policy Review Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 151-189, 2007

• “The Impact of Nordic Countries’ Family-Friendly Policies on Wages, Employment and Children” (joint with N. Smith and M. Verner), Review of Economics of the Household, Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 65-89, 2008

• “Barselsorlov og Familievenlig Politik i de Nordiske Lande – En Ligestillingsfremmende og Økonomisk Bæredygtig Model?” (Birth-related Leave and Family Policy in the Nordic Countries – An Equalizing and Economic Sustainable Model?) (joint with N. Smith and M. Verner), Nationaløkonomisk Tidsskrift (Danish Journal of Economics) Vol.147, 120-136, 2009

• "Examining the impact of alternative power measures on individual time use in American and Danish couple households”, (joint with Leslie S. Stratton), Review of Economics of the Household, Vol. 8(3), pages 325-343, 2010

• “HRM Practices and the Within-Firm Gender Gap” (joint with T. Eriksson), British Journal of Industrial Relations Vol. 50, Issue 3, pages 554–580, 2012

• “Differences in the Labor market Entry of Second-generation Immigrants and ethnic Danes” (joint with L. Kromann), IZA Journal of Migration 3:16, 2014

• “Do Wage Subsidies for Disabled Workers result in Deadweight Loss? – evidence from the Danish Flexjob scheme,” (joint with M. Larsen and L. Stage Thomsen), IZA Journal of Labor Policy 12/2015

• “Labour market integration of FRY refugees in Sweden vs. Denmark”, (joint with P. Andersson Joona), International Migration 2022:00:1-19 

Economics of Education:

• “The Effect of Labour Market Conditions on the Completion of Higher Education in Denmark” (joint with M.Y. An), Nationaløkonomisk Tidsskrift (Danish Journal of Economics), Vol. 143, No. 1, pp. 81-103, 2005

• “Overeducation among Immigrants in Sweden: Incidence, Wage effects and State dependence” (joint with P. Andersson Joona and E. Wadensjö), IZA Journal of Migration, 3:9, 2014

• “The Impact of Education and Occupation on Temporary and Permanent Work Incapacity”, (joint with D. Lau and D. Pozzoli), B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy 16/2, 577-618.

• “Identifying the Effects of Education on the Ability to Cope with a Disability among Individuals with Disabilities”, (joint with S. Bengtsson), PLOS One, 12(3): e0173659, 2017

• “Modeling Completion of Vocational Education: The Role of Cognitive and Noncognitive Skills by Program Type” (joint with L. Stratton, D. Reimer and A. Holm), B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 18(4), October 2018, pp. 1-17 (lead article)

Economics of Child Care and Child Development:    

• “Non-Cognitive Child Outcomes and Universal High-Quality Child Care,” (joint with M. Simonsen), Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 94, Issues 1-2, pp. 30-43, 2010

• “Effects of Type of Non-parental Child Care on Pre-teen Skills and Risky Behaviors” (joint with M. Simonsen), Economics Letters Vol. 116(3), pages 622-625, 2012

• “Academic Performance and Type of Early Childhood Care” (joint with M. Simonsen), Economics of Education Review 53, 217-229, 2016.

• “Does Mother Know Best? Parental Discrepancies in Assessing Child Behavioral and Educational Outcomes”, (joint with M. Lausten and D. Pozzoli), Review of Economics of the Household, 16(2), 407-425, 2017

• “Maternity leave versus early childcare—What are the long-term consequences for children?” IZA World of Labor 2018: 438 Updated version requested by IZA, IZA World of Labor 2023: 438v2

• ”Is putting children in childcare good for them”? IZA World of Labor Commentary, Feb 2020

Economics of Health, Aging and Retirement:    

• “Effekten af pensionsreform på danske ægtepars udtræden af arbejdsmarkedet” (The Effect of Pension Reform on the Retirement of Danish Married Couples, joint with B.J. Christensen), Nationaløkonomisk Tidsskrift (Danish Journal of Economics), Vol. 138, pp. 222-242, 2000                 

• “Multivariate Mixed Proportional Hazard Modelling of the Joint Retirement of Married Couples” (joint with M.Y. An and B.J. Christensen), Special issue on Econometrics of Social Insurance, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Vol. 19, No. 6, pp. 687-704, 2004

• “Health Shocks and Retirement: The Role of Welfare State Institutions,” (joint with M. Larsen), European Journal of Ageing, Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 183-190, 2007

• “The Impact of Health on Individual Retirement Plans: Self-reported vs. Diagnostic Measures” (joint with M. Larsen), Health Economics Vol. 19(7), pages 792-813, 2010

• “External Validation of the Use of Vignettes in Cross-Country Health Studies”, (joint with N. Kristensen and D. Pozzoli), Economic Modelling Vol. 27(4), pages 854-865, 2010

• “Overweight and Obesity and the Demand for Primary Physician Care”, (joint with J. Greve), Health Economics, Vol. 20, Issue Supplement 1, pages 53-67, 2011

• “Do Workers Underreport Morbidity? The accuracy of self-reports of chronic conditions,” (joint with H. Jürges) Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, Vol. 75(9), pages 1589-1594, 2012

• “Medium-Term Consequences of Low Birth Weight on Height, Weight and Behavioral Outcomes”, (joint with M. Deding and M. Lausten), Economics and Human Biology, Vol. 11, issue 1, pages 42-55, 2013

• “The Effect of a Severe Health Shock on Work Behavior: Evidence from Different Health Care Regimes,” (joint with K. Kleinjans and M. Larsen), Social Science & Medicine 136-137,44-51,2015

• “The Effect of a Compulsory Schooling Reform on Disability Pensioning – Evidence from the Danish Registers”, (joint with S. Bengtsson), Annals of Economics and Statistics 119/120, pages 95-121, 2015

• “Retirement and Health in the Nordic Welfare State”, (joint with B.J. Christensen), Nordic Economic Policy Review, Number 2,2015, 173-195

• “Hearing Loss and Disability Exit – Measurement Issues and Coping Strategies” (joint with V.T. Christensen), Economics & Human Biology, 24, 80-91, 2017.

Economic Development:

• “Gender, Pay and Development: A Cross-Country Analysis,” Labour, Management and Development, Vol. 3, pp. 1-19, 2002

• “Fertility and the Household’s Economic Status: A Natural Experiment Using Indian Micro Data” (joint with A. Dubey), Journal of Development Studies, Vol. 42, No. 1, pp. 110-138, 2006

• “Targeting and Effects of Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana on Access to Care and Financial Protection” (joint with S. Ghosh), Economic & Political Weekly, vol L11, No. 4

• “Rising School Attendance in Rural India: An Evaluation of Major Educational Reforms” (joint with A. Dubey and M. Simonsen), Education Economics, 26(2), 109-128, 2018.

• “Income Convergence and the Flow out of Poverty in Rural India” (joint with N-H. Blunch and P.A. Barrientos Quiroga) in Indian Economic Journal 66(1-2), 2018, pp.1-24

• “Mothers’ Health Knowledge Gap for Children with Diarrhea: A Decomposition Analysis across Caste and Religion in India”(joint with N-H. Blunch), in World Development 126(2020), 104718

• “Mothers’ Health Knowledge for Children with Diarrhea: Who You Are or Who You Know?” (joint with N-H. Blunch), in Review of Economics of the Household 18(4),1131-1164, 2020

• “”Opt out” or Kept Out? The Effect of Stigma, Structure, Selection, and Sector on the Labor Force Participation of Married Women in India” (joint with D. Nandy† and S. Siddhanta), in Review of Development Economics, 24(3), 2020, pp. 927-948  

Behavioral, Experimental, Well-being & Environment:

• “Analyzing Trends in Subjective Well-Being in 15 European Countries, 1973-2002” (joint with C. Bjørnskov and P. Pedersen), Journal of Happiness Studies, Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 317-330, 2008

• “Work Environment Satisfaction and Employee Health – Panel Evidence from Denmark, France and Spain” (joint with N. Kristensen), European Journal of Health Economics, Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 51-60, 2008

• “Gender Matching and Competitiveness – Experimental Evidence” (joint with A. Poulsen and M. C. Villeval), Economic Inquiry Vol. 51, Issue 1, pages 816–835, 2013

• “Awareness Programs and Change in Taste-based Caste Prejudice,” (joint with R. Banerjee), PLOS One, 10(4):e0118546

• “Spillover Effects of Affirmative Action Policies on Competitiveness and Unethical Behavior” (joint with R. Banerjee and M.C. Villeval), European Economic Review Volume 101, January 2018, Pages 567-604

• “Feedback spillovers across tasks, self-confidence and competitiveness” (joint with R. Banerjee and M.C. Villeval), in Games and Economic Behavior 2020, vol. 123, issue C, 127-170, 2

• “Beauty in Mind: The Effects of Physical Attractiveness on Psychological Well-being and Distress,” (joint with N. Etcoff and M. M. Jæger) Journal of Happiness Studies 06/2015

• “Measuring the impact of clean energy production on CO2 abatement in Denmark: Upper bound estimation and forecasting”(joint with B.J. Christensen and P. Santucci de Magistris), Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A, 184(1), 2021, pp. Pages 118-149 

• "Climate, wind energy, and CO2 emissions from energy production in Denmark” (joint with F. Carlini, B.J. Christensen and P. Santucci de Magistris), Energy Economics 125(2023) 16821