Simon Halphen Boserup

WORK IN PROGRESS

• Labor Market Shocks and the Demand for Safe Assets
  (with Alexandre N. Kohlhas, Ansgar Walther, and Selma Walther)

• "Intergenerational wealth formation over the life-cycle: Evidence from Danish wealth records 1984-2013"
  (with Wojciech Kopczuk and Claus Thustrup Kreiner).

WORKING PAPERS

• "Stability and persistence of intergenerational wealth formation: Evidence from Danish wealth records of three generations"
  (with Wojciech Kopczuk and Claus Thustrup Kreiner). October 2014. (pdf)
  (Previously a chapter in my PhD thesis entitled "Intergenerational Wealth Mobility: Evidence from Danish Wealth Records of Three Generations")

• "Tax evasion, information reporting, and the regressive bias prediction"
  (with Jori Veng Pinje). August 2013. (pdf).

PUBLICATIONS

• "Born with a silver spoon? Danish evidence on wealth inequality in childhood"
  (with Wojciech Kopczuk and Claus Thustrup Kreiner). The Economic Journal, 2018 (EJ, pdf, Vox column).
  (Previously entitled "Born with a silver spoon: Danish evidence on intergenerational wealth formation from cradle to adulthood")

• "The Role of Bequests in Shaping Wealth Inequality: Evidence from Danish Wealth Records"
  (with Wojciech Kopczuk and Claus Thustrup Kreiner). American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings, 106(5): 656-61, 2016. (AER, NBER version, manuscript, Vox column, Stata do file)

• "Essays on Tax Evasion and Enforcement and Intergenerational Wealth Mobility". PhD dissertation. March 2013. (pdf)

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Public finance, taxation, tax evasion, intergenerational mobility

BIOGRAPHIC INFORMATION

• Assistant professor, University of Copenhagen, 2017-present.

• Postdoctoral research fellow, University of Copenhagen, 2013-2017.

• Visiting student researcher, University of California, Berkeley, 2011.

• PhD in Economics, University of Copenhagen, 2008-2013 (Supervisor: Prof. Claus Thustrup Kreiner).

• MSc in Economics, University of Copenhagen, 2010.

• BSc in Economics, University of Copenhagen, 2007.

• Research assistant, CEPOS, 2005-2006

HONORS AND AWARDS

• Postdoctoral research grant, 2013 (Danish Council for Independent Research, Social Sciences, DFF - 1329-00046, visit project page).

• Euroclear Scholarship 2010 for studies at UC Berkeley, spring 2011.

• Nominated for McKinsey Prize (best seminar paper), spring 2008, at Econonomics, Univ. of Copenhagen.