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18. May 2021
American Economic Journal – Policy
Attendance Boundary Policies and the Limits to Combating School Segregation
What is the efficacy of redrawing school attendance boundaries as a desegregation policy? To provide causal evidence on this question, we employ novel data with unprecedented detail on the universe of Danish children and exploit changes in attendance boundaries over time. Households defy reassignments to schools with lower socioeconomic status. There is a strong social gradient in defiance, as resourceful households are more sensitive to the student composition of new schools. We simulate school assignment policies and find that boundary changes that reassign areas to a highly disadvantaged school are ineffective at altering the socioeconomic composition at the disadvantaged school.
3 February 2024
Social Science & Medicine
From unequal injuries to unequal learning? Socioeconomic gradients in childhood concussions and the impact on children’s academic performance
Highlights • Child concussion rates are higher among families with lower earnings and education. • Concussion incidence and reading test scores are negatively correlated. • Difference-in-differences model controls for selection and identifies a causal effect. • The negative correlation is driven by selection and does not reflect a causal effect. • Social gradients in concussions do not lead to inequality in academic performance.
30 December 2023
Psychological Medicine
Suicides, drug poisonings, and alcohol-related deaths cluster with health and social disadvantage in 4.1 million citizens from two nations
Deaths of despair are a marker of inequalities in countries beyond the U.S. with robust social-safety nets, nationwide healthcare, and strong pharmaceutical regulations. These deaths cluster within a highly disadvantaged population segment identifiable within health- and social-service systems.
3 November 2023
The journal of human resources
How Does Visitation Affect Incarcerated Persons and Their Families?
1 November 2023
European Psychiatry
Changes in anxiety and depression during the COVID-19 Pandemic in the European population
26 October 2023
Labour Economics
Access to language training and the local integration of refugees
15 October 2023
Children and Youth Services Review
Introducing a New Data Resource for Comparative Child Welfare Research: The Rockwool-Duke Global Child Welfare Database
9 September 2023
The Journal of Economic Inequality
Income developments in the great recession Status for the Danish Prime-age Working Population a Decade Following the Onset of the Financial Crisis.”
8 September 2023
Demographic Research
Partial Fertility Recuperation in Spain Two Years After the Onset of the COVID-19 Pandemic
5 September 2023
Canadian Review of Sociology
Sources of mathematics self-efficacy: The interactive role of parental education and perceptions of teachers
3 September 2023
Acta Sociologica
Criminal justice involvement, transition to fatherhood, and the demographic foundation of the intergenerational transmission of crime
30 August 2023
Justice Quarterly
Court Delays and Criminal Recidivism: Results from Danish Administrative Data and a Policy Reform
11 August 2023
European Journal of Public Health
The association between type of conception through medically assisted reproduction and childhood cognition: A Danish population-wide cohort study
22 July 2023
Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment and Health
Psychosocial working conditions and sickness absence among younger employees in Denmark
11 July 2023
Journal of Labor Economics
Permanent Residency and Refugee Immigrants’ Skill Investment
20 June 2023
Sociological Methods & Research
Lagged Dependent Variable Predictors, Classical Measurement Error, and Path Dependency: The Conditions Under Which Various Estimators are Appropriate
7 June 2023
An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
Changes in Conception Rates, Not in Pregnancy-Related Behavior, Likely Caused Decline in Pre-Term Births During the First Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic
4 June 2023
Journal of Public Economics
Intergenerational spillover effects of language training for refugees
3 April 2023
The Economic Journal
Neighbourhood Gangs, Crime Spillovers and Teenage Motherhood
29 March 2023
The British Journal of Sociology
What cultural hierarchy? Cultural tastes, status and inequality
12 March 2023
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