We evaluate a Danish reform focused on improving Danish language training for those granted refugee status on or after January 1, 1999. Using a Regression Discontinuity Design we find a significant, permanent, positive effect on earnings. This effect emerged after completion of language classes...

Objective: The purpose is to assess whether the joint evaluation of costs and quality affects the ranking of hospital departments relative to performance based on cost performance alone.<p> Methods: Using patient level data, in which 3,754 patients across six vascular departments are pooled we...</p>

Introduction: The purpose of this study is to examine whether there exist differences in utilization of general practice between low income groups and citizens with higher income after adjustment for social and health-related factors Material and methods: Various registers from Statistics...

We analyze an immigration reform in Denmark that tightened refugee immigrants’ eligibility criteria for permanent residency to incentivize their labor market attachment and acquisition of local language skills. Contrary to what the reform intended, the overall employment of those affected...

This study estimates the effect of college access on adult immigrant productivity. I utilize that immigrants must demonstrate their language proficiency to enroll in university and investigate the effect of passing the required language test using a regression discontinuity design. After passing...

This study examines intergenerational income dependency in incomes before and after public cash and in-kind transfers. We use administrative data from Denmark and estimate intergenerational dependency with a rank-rank specification. We predict in-kind transfers from childcare, schooling,...

We evaluate a Danish reform focused on improving Danish language training for those granted refugee status on or after January 1, 1999. Using a Regression Discontinuity Design we find a significant, permanent, positive effect on earnings. This effect emerged after completion of language classes...

Denmark has accepted refugees from a large variety of countries and for more than four decades. Denmark has also frequently changed policies and regulations concerning integration programs, transfer payments, and conditions for permanent residency. Such policy variation in conjunction with...