Center for Economic Behavior and Inequality (CEBI)

Department of Economics

Are People Systematically Inactive Across Financial Decisions?

Do Mothers Anticipate the Career Impact of Childbirth?

Figure - Rich and poor

Rich and poor both willing to pay for more equality

Physician-patient concordance

Physician-patient match matters

Lower Minimum Wages for Young Increase their Employment?

How do we measure behavioral responses to tax reforms

Figure: Shutdowns cause only small economic costs during COVID-19 pandemic

Shutdowns cause only small economic costs during COVID-19 pandemic

Figure: Patient people are wealthier

Patient people are wealthier

Figure: Propensity to Actively Take Out New Mortgage

How Do House Prices Drive Spending?

Figure: Inequalities at birth persist into the next generation

Inequalities at birth persist into the next generation

Lower Minimum Wages for Young Increase their Employment?

Lower minimum wages for young increase their employment

Figure: Financial trouble from generation to generation

Financial trouble from generation to generation

Figure: Does Earmarked Paternity Leave affect the Intra-Household Income Distribution

Does earmarked parental leave affect the intra-household income distribution?

Figure: How far are labor supply behavior from Homo Economicus?

How far are labor supply behavior from Homo Economicus?

Figure: How big is inequality in life expectancy?

How big is inequality in life expectancy?

Figure: Childhood wealth is a strong predictor of wealth in adulthood

Childhood wealth is a strong predictor of wealth in adulthood nearly three decades later

Figure: Top incomes in Scandinavia: Recent developments and the role of capital income

Strength and weaknesses of using top income shares as inequality measures

Figure: Stimulus Policy: Why not let peaple spend their own money?

Stimulus Policy: Why not let people spend their own money?

Figure: 3 personality traits affect what you earn

3 personality traits affect what you earn

Figure: Who evades taxes in developed countries?

Who evades taxes in developed countries?

Children are the main course of gender inequality in earnings. FOTO: Niels Ahlmann Olesen / Ritzau Scanpix

Children are the main cause of gender inequality in earnings

FOTO: Niels Ahlmann Olesen / Ritzau Scanpix

Figure: How does a financial crises spread to the real economy?

How does a financial crises spread to the real economy?

Figure: Family labor supply responses to health shocks

Family labor supply responses to health shocks

News

Mette Ejrnæs continues as a sage at the Precidency of the Economic Councils

Minister of Economic Affairs and the Interior Pia Olsen Dyhr re-appoints Professor Mette Ejrnæs as …

N. Meltem Daysal will give keynote talk at the 2026 Meeting of the Society of Economics of the Household (SEHO)

The Lecture is entitled The Economics of Mental Health.

CEBI PhD student Malthe Hauschildt Veje has been awarded a Fulbright Grant

Malthe will spend a full year at Princeton University hosted by professor Henrik Kleven.

Events

Show all events