Simon Halphen Boserup
Assistant Professor of Economics
Center for Economic Behavior and Inequality (CEBI)
Department of Economics
University of Copenhagen
Office: 35.2.18 (2nd floor)
University of Copenhagen
Department of Economics
Øster Farimagsgade 5, bygn. 26
DK-1353 København K
Denmark
Phone: +45 35 32 32 58
Email: shb "at" econ.ku.dk
Links: CV
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.