I am an Associate Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics and Business Economics, Aarhus University, and the ECONAU data manager. I serve as an Associate Editor at Empirical Economics. I am affiliated with IZA, CESifo, RFBerlin, the GLO, PIREAU, and CEFAU. I hold a PhD in Economics from LMU Munich.
Research interests: macroeconomics, labor and family economics, search and matching, inequality
You can reach me by email: bastian.schulz@econ.au.dk.
My CV is available here: Download CV
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Next workshop:
Together with Annaïg Morin, I am hosting a workshop on Macroeconomics, Labor Markets, and Families at CBS in Copenhagen, on October 8/9. See the program here
Recent and upcoming presentations of my work:
Norwegian School of Economics (NHH), Bergen (November 2026)
Workshop on Macroeconomics, Labor Markets, and Families, Copenhagen (October 2026)
Families in Macroeconomics, London (September 2026)
News:
July 2026: Revised version of Job Displacement, Remarriage, and Marital Sorting is available.
June 2026: New paper: first version of Joint Labor Search and the Tax-Transfer System is available.
November 2025: New grant from the Danish e-infrastructure Consortium (DeiC), including computation time at the European supercomputer LUMI that will help advance my research agenda on interactions between labor and marriage markets.
October 2025: New grant from the Independent Research Fund Denmark (IRFD), supporting my project "Disentangling the Interplay of Marriage, Divorce, Fertility, and Work: Evidence from Natural Experiments", which is joint work with Frederik Almar, Edoardo Ciscato, Hanno Foerster, Andrew Shephard, and Guanyi Wang.
October 2025: Educational Ambition, Marital Sorting, and Inequality has been accepted for publication by the Journal of Labor Economics.
April 2025: Media coverage of my research on marriage market matching in the Danish national newspaper Weekendavisen: Golddiggermyten (The Golddigger Myth).
January 2025: New working paper! Families’ Career Investments and Firms’ Promotion Decisions is available. It also came out as NBER WP No. 33438, IZA DP No. 17367, and CESifo WP No. 11659.