We assess the solidity and debt servicing capacity of Danish homeowners by simulating the impact on household budgets of inflation, rising interest rates and a potential unemployment shock, and calculating the remaining economic margin. A negative economic margins means the household would not...

Using Austrian and Danish administrative data, we examine the impacts of parenthood on mental health. Parenthood imposes a greater mental health burden on mothers than on fathers. It creates a long-run gender gap in antidepressant prescriptions of about 93.2% (Austria) and 64.8% (Denmark). These...

How do parents contend with threats to the health and survival of their children? Can the social safety net mitigate negative economic effects through transfers to affected families? We study these questions by combining the universe of cancer diagnoses among Danish children with register data...