CEBI
Inequality across people in income, wealth and health arises from differences in circumstances and differences in behavior. Much economic research on the causes of inequality focuses on circumstances. CEBI asks: What is the role of individual behavior in generating unequal outcomes? Answering this question is fundamental for understanding the sources of inequality, how policy affects inequality, and how circumstances and behavior interact to reduce or produce inequality.
CEBI aims to address the role of behavior in generating inequality and the underlying sources of such behavioral inequality. We exploit the globally unique Danish data research infrastructure to combine population administrative registers on individuals’ choices and outcomes with information about their behavioral characteristics obtained from large-scale controlled experiments and large-scale surveys.
CEBI is headed by Professor Claus Thustrup Kreiner in cooperation with Søren Leth-Petersen. The center includes people at all levels – from research assistants to professors – from the Department of Economic at the University of Copenhagen and world-leading scholars in experimental economics, public economics and structural economics at University of Zurich, New York University and Princeton University.
CEBI is a Center of Excellence, founded in September 2017, financed by the Danish National Research Foundation.
Researchers
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| Asger Lau Andersen | Associate Professor | Household Economics and Finance; Political Economics; Applied Microeconometrics |
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| Christina Gravert | Associate Professor | Behavioral Economics; Experimental Economics; Public Policy; Nudging; Incentives and Behavior Change |
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| Claus Thustrup Kreiner | Professor | Public Finance, Public Policy, Inequality, Labor Supply, Consumption Behavior |
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| Ida Lykke Kristiansen | Postdoc | Health economics, family economics, child development inequality, applied microeconometrics |
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| Jeppe Druedahl | Associate Professor | Macroeconomic Questions; Models with Uncertainty and Heterogeneity; Micro-level Data; Computational Methods |
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| Johan Sæverud | Researcher | Applied micro, structural models, labor, retirement, savings |
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| Martin Browning | Professor | Applied Microeconometrics; Economics of the Family; Saving and Consumption |
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| Mette Gørtz | Professor | Health Economics; Family Economics; Labour Economics; Ageing; Applied Microeconometrics |
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| Mette Ejrnæs | Professor | Applied Micro Econometrics; Income/earnings Processes; Consumption; Foster Care and Unemployment Insurance |
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| Miriam Wüst | Associate Professor - Promotion Programme | Empirical Research on Children and Families; Health Economics; Applied Micro Econometrics; Family Economics |
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| N. Meltem Daysal | Associate Professor | Child Development; Medical Interventions; Intra-household Spillovers; Health Economics; Labor Economics |
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| Niels Johannesen | Professor | Tax Policy; Tax Havens; Tax Evasion; International Taxation; Financial Crisis |
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| Søren Leth-Petersen | Professor | Applied Economics; Individual Level Financial Behaviour; Consumption; Savings; Labor Supply |
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| Thomas Høgholm Jørgensen | Associate Professor | Household decision making, structural estimation and applied microeconometrics. |
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| Torben Heien Nielsen | Professor | Health Behaviors; Health and Mortality Inequalities; Retirement and Savings; Health Measurement; Health Care Suppliers |
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Contact
Director Claus Thustrup Kreiner or Deputy Director Søren Leth-Petersen