Last update: august 2018

Research

 

Publications:

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'The Fertility Transition in the US: Schooling or Income?' Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2017, forthcoming. (with Casper Worm Hansen and Peter Sandholt Jensen) 

 

'The Rise in Life Expectancy and Economic Growth in the 20th Century'. Economic Journal, 2015 125(584), 838-852. (with Casper Worm Hansen)

 

'Can higher life expectancy induce more schooling an earlier retirement?'. Journal of Population Economics, 2012, 25(4), 1249-1264. (with Casper Worm Hansen)

 

 

Working papers:

 

"How the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake Shaped Economic Activity in the American West", [CEPR dp] [NBER wp] Revise and Resubmit, Explorations in Economic History (joint with Philipp Ager, Katherine Eriksson, Casper Worm Hansen, and Lars Lønstrup).

 

Church Membership and Social Insurance: Evidence from the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 (with Philipp Ager and Casper Worm Hansen)

 

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