Rasmus Landersø
Research Professor and
Head of Research in education and family
MSc in Economics, PhD
rl@rff.dk
+45 20 70 44 29
Research areas
Labour market, education, social mobility, criminality.
Publications
Published work (in academic journals):
“Lessons for Americans from Denmark about Inequality and Social Mobility”
James J. Heckman and Rasmus Landersø, 2022, Labour Economics, 77(August)
“Child’s Gender, Young Fathers’ Crime, and Spillover Effects of Criminal Behavior“
Christian Dustmann and Rasmus Landersø, 2021, Journal of Political Economy, 129(12), 3261-3301.
“The Effects of DNA Databases on the Deterrence and Detection of Offenders“,
Anne Sofie Tegner Anker, Jennifer Doleac, and Rasmus Landersø, 2021, AEJ: Applied, 13(4), 194-225.
“Psychiatric Hospital Admission and Later Crime, Mental Health, and Labor Market Outcomes”
Rasmus Landersø and Peter Fallesen, 2021, Health Economics, 30(1), 165-179.
“Effects of School Staring Age on the Family“,
Rasmus Landersø, Helena Skyt Nielsen, and Marianne Simonsen, 2020, The Journal of Human Resources 55(4), 1258-1288.
“The Scandinavian Fantasy: The Sources of Intergenerational Mobility in Denmark and the U.S.“,
Rasmus Landersø and James J. Heckman, 2017, The Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 119 (1), pp. 178-230.
“School Starting Age and the Crime Age Profile”,
Rasmus Landersø, Helena Skyt Nielsen, and Marianne Simonsen, 2017, The Economic Journal, Volume 127 (602), pp. 1096–1118
“Does Incarceration Length Affect Labor Market Outcomes?“,
Rasmus Landersø, 2015, Journal of Law and Economics, 58 (February), pp. 205-234
Working papers:
“Intergenerational Transmission of Family Influence”
- M. Sadegh Eshaghnia, James J. Heckman, Rasmus Landersø, and Rafeh Qureshi
“Refugee Benefit Cuts” (earlier circulated as “Lowering Welfare Transfers: Intended and Unintended Consequences for Migrants and their Families“) (cond. accept AEJ: Pol)
Christian Dustmann, Rasmus Landersø, and Lars H. Andersen
“The Making and Unmaking of Educational Opportunity: Educational Mobility in 20th Century Denmark”
Kristian B. Karlson and Rasmus Landersø
“Public and Parental Investments and Children’s Skill Formation (R&R JHR)”
Miriam Gensowski, Rasmus Landersø, Dorthe Bleses, Phillip Dale, Anders Højen, and Laura Justice
Other work:
”Introduktion til emnet social arv og social mobilitet”
Peter Fallesen and Rasmus Landersø, 2020, i “Hvad ved vi om børn og deres opvækstvilkår”, Signe Hald Andersen, Bent Jensen, Bodil Wullum Jensen, Jan Rose Skaksen (red), Gyldendal.
“Uddannelse – et af flere redskaber”
Peter Fallesen and Rasmus Landersø, 2009, Socialpolitik, 5:11-15
“Selvforsørgelse og uddannelse efter fængsel”
Rasmus Landersø and Torben Tranæs, 2009, i ”Løsladt og hvad så?”, Jesper Rybjerg (red), Jurist- og Økonomforbundets Forlag
Recent research output, comments, and opinion pieces (in Danish):
Gini-koefficienten er et utilstrækkeligt mål for ulighed og kan afspore debatten (comment, 2022)
Den større sociale arv og det aflyste generationstyveri (comment, 2022)
Folkeskolens udfordringer hænger sammen og skal løse samtidig (opinion piece, 2022)
Retspolitik er subjektivt (opinion piece, with Lars Højsgaard Andersen, 2022)
Ulige muligheder for at få en ungdomsuddannelse kan tilskrives ulighed i færdigheder (short analysis, 2022)
Unges tilknytning til arbejdsmarkedet (short analysis, with Signe Hald Andersen, 2021)
Social baggrund afgør din uddannelse, ikke om du bor på landet eller i byen (opinion piece, with Kristian Karlson, 2021)
Det er i stigende grad studenter med relativt lave karakterer, der bliver lærere (short analysis, 2020)
Børns udvikling af sproglige færdigheder har en social slagside (short analysis, with Anders Hjorth-Trolle, 2020)
Academic presentations (selected):
EALE conference, EEA conference, Humboldt (Berlin), NBER Summer Institute, NHH (Bergen), Royal Economic Society conference, SOFI (Stockholm), Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (conference), The University of Chicago, The University of Copenhagen, UCL, UCLA, Tinbergen Institute (Amsterdam), Topics in Labor Economics conference (UCL), Linné University.
Editorial experience and refereeing:
Associate editor at the Journal of Human Capital (2018-).
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, American Economic Review, American Economic Review: Insights, Economica, Econometrica, Economics of Education Review, Empirical Economics, European Research Council, Health Economics, Journal of Comparative Economics, Journal of Economic Literature, Journal of Health Economics, Journal of Human Capital, Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Public Economics, Labour Economics, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Review of Economics and Statistics, Review of Economic Studies, Scandinavian Journal of Economics.