Mikkel Gandil

Academic CV (pdf)


Contact:

Phone: 0045 28 73 67 69

Email: mga{at]rff.dk


Research interests: 


Affiliations:

CESifo Economics of Education, Research Affiliate 

IZA, Research Affiliate

EduQuant (University of Copenhagen), External Researcher

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Working papers:


College admission as a screening and sorting device, November 2024 (submitted)

with Edwin Leuven, Paper 


Trickle down education - ripple effects in college admissions, March 2025 (submitted) 

An earlier version of this paper has been circulated as "Substitution effects in College Admissions", Paper


Playing the system: address manipulation and access to schools, May 2023 (submitted)

with Andreas Bjerre-Nielsen, Lykke Sterll Christensen & Hans Henrik Sievertsen, Paper

Publications:


Attendance Boundary Policies and the Limits to Combating School Segregation,  AEJ: Economic Policy 2024

with Andreas Bjerre-Nielsen, Manuscript


Rank-correlations are not robust to differences in group inequality , Journal of Economic Inequality, 2023

Paper    GitHub


In Danish:

Social mobilitet i optagelse til videregående uddannelser , Samfundsøkonomen 2/2023

(Social mobility in admission to higher education)

Work in progress:


Resting papers:

Privacy in spatial data with high resolution and time invariance , April 2018

with Andreas Bjerre-Nielsen, Paper    GitHub

The Price of Free Schools, September 2018

with Andreas Bjerre-Nielsen

Do peers matter? Only if you need them (and meet them), September 2018

with Andreas Bjerre-Nielsen

Public media (mostly Danish/Norwegian):

Reports (Danish):

Målsætning om flest mulige med førsteprioritet får gymnasieansøgere til at søge strategisk

March 2024, with Andreas Bjerre-Nielsen, Lykke Sterll Christensen & Hans Henrik SIevertsen

The analysis documents that Danish high school applicants respond to strategic incentives in the immediate acceptance mechanism

Report (Media coverage in Berlingske)


Fattigdom trækker spor ind i voksenlivet

 April 2017

This report documents correlations between the very small geographic area of childhood and adult outcomes (In Danish)

Report    (Media coverage in Berlingske)