Publications:
Publications:
Breaking Bad: How Health Shocks Prompt Crime, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics. with Steffen Andersen, Gianpaolo Parise and Kim Peijnenburg .
Exploiting plausibly exogenous variations in the timing of cancer diagnoses, we establish that health shocks elicit a large and persistent increase in the probability of committing a crime. This effect materializes in a substantial rise in both first crimes and re-offenses. We uncover evidence for two mechanisms. First, an economic motive leads individuals to compensate the loss of legal revenues with illegal earnings. Second, cancer patients face lower expected cost of punishment through a lower survival probability. Welfare programs that alleviate the economic repercussions of health shocks are effective at mitigating the ensuing negative externality on society. Link to paper; Link to Online Appendix.
A Flying Start: Intergenerational transfers, wealth accumulation and entrepreneurship of descendants.
Solo paper
Winner of the Best PhD Paper Award at the 2025 CEPR Household Finance Conference
Early wealth transfers are growing relative to inheritances, yet their effects on inequality remain poorly understood. I identify large wealth transfers tied to housing market entries by exploiting a Danish tax policy that allows parents to sell housing to their children below market value, and study their effects on recipients’ investments and wealth. I find that transfers increase the likelihood of starting a business over the next decade while also raising consumption. Instrumenting transfer amounts with a policy-determined cap maintains significant investment responses, indicating that transfers directly support wealth accumulation by shaping financial choices early in life. Effects are strongest among recipients outside the top of parental wealth, suggesting that the business-investment channel promotes intergenerational mobility.
Presentations: CEPR Household Finance Conference Stockholm 2025, EDGE Jamboree at Cambridge 2025, Haas School of Business Finance Lunch Seminar (UC Berkeley), Institute for Research on Labour and Employment (IRLE) (UC Berkeley), Danish Academic Economists in North America (DAEiNA) Nordic Economics Workshop for Early-Career Researchers 2025, European Association for Young Economists Conference 2025, Research Institute for Industrial Economics (IFN), Danish Central Bank Research Seminar, University of Copenhagen Lunch Seminar.
Workplace Violence. with Daphné Skandalis.
Draft coming soon.
Winner of the Best Paper Award at the 2026 CESifo Junior Workshop on Labor Economics
Presentations: 3rd Cage Workshop 2026 at University of Warwick, CESifo Junior Workshop on Labor Economics, Northwestern Gender Workshop 2026, Working Environment Conference 2025, Rockwool Foundation, Danish National Center for the Working Environment (NFA), Swedish Institute for Social Research (Daphné Skandalis) Danish Central Bank Research Seminar, Nordic Economic Institute in Labour Economics 2025, European Society for Population Economics (ESPE) 2025, Innsbruck Job Search Workshop (Daphné Skandalis), European Labor Symposium for Early Career Economists in Paris (ELSE) (Daphné Skandalis).
Does Family Caregiving Complement Formal Care? Daughters and Parental Survival After a Severe Health Shock. with Matteo Saccarola and Francesco Ruggieri.
We study how informal family caregiving and formal care interact after severe parental health shocks, and whether they operate as substitutes or complements. Using Danish administrative data, we compare parents of only children who experience a stroke at the same age and differ only in the gender of theirchild. Before the stroke, parents of daughters and parents of sons follow similar health trajectories, with comparable levels of pre-existing conditions and healthcare utilization. After the stroke, a survival gap opens and grows, and parents of daughters are 1.5 percentage points more likely to be alive by year five. Over the same pe riod, daughters adjust more than sons along several margins: they become more likely to live near their parents, less likely to be married, and have fewer children, consistent with greater involvement in informal caregiving. Crucially, parents of daughters use more physical rehabilitation, an elective type of formal care that requires sustained engagement. Rather than crowding out formal provision, daughters appear more likely to help parents navigate and use professional services. Informal and formal care can therefore operate, at least in part, as complements in the response to severe health shocks.
Presentations: University of Virginia Labor/Public Seminar. Northwestern Household Reading Group, Labour Lunch Seminar at UC Berkeley (Matteo Saccarola), Haas School of Business Finance Lunch Seminar at UC Berkeley (Matteo Saccarola).
A Return of the Brother’s Lot? Evidence from the Swedish Inheritance Tax Repeal. Solo paper.
How do tax incentives for an equal division of inheritances shape the allocation of resources within the family? This paper studies how the abolition of the Swedish inheritance tax in 2004 shaped the flow of family resources to the youngest generation. Because the tax rewarded splitting estates between children and grandchildren, its removal left parents to decide how much of inherited wealth to pass on, and to whom, without a tax cost. I compare the wealth of parents and their children when a grandparent died just before and after the reform. Under the tax, both parents and grandchildren gained wealth when a grandparent died, indicating that inherited wealth was passed on. After the abolition, the gain for grandchildren falls by half. The decline falls entirely on granddaughters, while grandsons continue to receive transfers after the abolition, and the granddaughters' loss is a loss of property. The results suggest that parents’ transfers to their children are not motivated by the children’s financial constraints, but rather by parental preferences shaped by gender norms.
The Value of a Conviction. with Abigail Adams and Daphné Skandalis.
Workplace Inspections. with Nadine Kuntz, David Seim, and Daphné Skandalis.