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: 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: Northwestern Household Reading Group, Labour Lunch Seminar at UC Berkeley (Matteo Saccarola), Haas School of Business Finance Lunch Seminar at UC Berkeley (Matteo Saccarola).
Dimensions of Wealth: Applications to Sweden. Solo paper.
The Value of a Conviction. with Abigail Adams and Daphné Skandalis.
Workplace Inspections. with Nadine Kuntz, David Seim, and Daphné Skandalis.
Intergenerational Transfers and Wealth Persistence. with Eppie Jean Van Egeraat.