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The population is aging in Denmark, as in many other countries, due to increasing life expectancy and a low total … socioeconomic situation of the elderly in Denmark, focusing on the health status and financial situation of the elderly, and the …
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We use administrative records on the healthcare utilization and economic outcomes of the universe of Danish households to characterize survivors' mental health following their spouse's death. We provide visually clear evidence for the inevitable immediate, large, and lingering adverse impacts...
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outcomes. Using administrative data from Denmark and the natural experiment of a child's gender, we find that having daughters …
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poor. Our setting is Denmark where the low-income elderly receive an annual payment (around $3,000) if their end …
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Mental health disorders are the leading cause of childhood disability worldwide. We examine the impact of a relatively common household stressor on child mental health: the presence of a younger sibling with a physical disability. Using Danish administrative data from families with at least 3...
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We carry out a comparative analysis of inequality of opportunity (IOp) for long-run income in Denmark and the United … relative to Denmark rather than just lower-bound estimates of IOp in the two countries. There are five main results. First … income is high in the United States and far from negligible in Denmark: before taxes and transfers, the lower-bound Gini …
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in talent, frictions, and preferences. We link the model to micro-level data from Denmark and uncover a host of facts …
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rich administrative data from Denmark. The first part presents descriptive evidence on earnings and hours-worked patterns …
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likely to drop out of school and to commit crime. We show that a reform in Denmark in 1999, that expanded language training …
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interaction with a health intervention during infancy. Using administrative data from Denmark together with variation in the …
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