"Optimal weights for marital sorting measures" with Bastian Schulz. Economics Letters, Volume 234, January 2024, 111497.
"Educational Ambition, Marital Sorting, and Inequality" with Benjamin Friedrich, Ana Reynoso, Bastian Schulz, and Rune Vejlin. Revised and resubmitted to the Journal of Labor Economics, September 2025.
Media coverage: Weekendavisen (March 17th, 2023), DR P1 Morgen (41:25) (March 20th, 2023), Kellogg Insight (April 1st, 2023), Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (January 18th, 2024), The New York Times (February 7th, 2024)
"Families’ Career Investments and Firms’ Promotion Decisions" with Benjamin Friedrich, Ana Reynoso, Bastian Schulz, and Rune Vejlin.
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"Place-Based University Education in a Structural Model of Local Labor, Housing, and Marriage Markets"
Abstract: Young adults migrate to where opportunities, such as universities, are concentrated, but would they be better off if universities were available in all areas? I address this question with a novel structural model that incorporates the interplay between place-based university education policies and local labor, housing, and marriage markets. Using rich administrative data from Denmark, I show how parental SES and place of residence at age 15 matter for opportunities and outcomes at age 35. With the estimated model, I document negative externalities of the migration to university cities through responses in the housing, labor, and marriage markets. Disregarding financing, a policy introducing university education in all areas improves average educational attainment, marriage rates, labor supply, disposable household income, and average welfare by 1%, but a large share of young adults would still migrate to university cities.