I am an assistant professor at the Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen, and a member of EduQuant. My research focuses on education choice, social mobility, and labor market matching. Some of my ongoing projects study the socio-economic differences in returns to field of study, multigenerational effects of educational reforms, and firm-student matching in apprenticeship markets.
I have advised the Danish Ministry of Education as a member of EduQuant, been an invited presenter at the OECD/Cedefop as a national expert on vocational education, and worked as a short-term consultant for the World Bank. During my PhD and Postdoc I was a visiting fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School, the Department of Social Policy at the LSE, UMass Amherst, and CEBI at the University of Copenhagen.
Contact: jesper.eriksen@econ.ku.dk
Ongoing Research
- “The Grandparent Effect Reexamined: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from a Large-Scale Educational Reform.” (with Mads Meier Jæger and Kristian Bernt Karlson)
- Revise and Resubmit at American Journal of Sociology.
- “Peer Effects in Vocational Education and Training.” (with Shaun Dougherty)
- Revising. [Annenberg Institute WP]
- “Refugees and Intergenerational Mobility.”
- Revising [Old WP]
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“Making Firms Train: Empirical evidence from a Danish tax reform.” (with Mette Ejrnæs)
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“The Price of Inclusion?: Impacts of Mainstream Classroom Education for Disabled Students and their Peers.” (with Laura Caron and Jeppe Johansen)
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“School Peers and Education Choice.” (with Andreas Bjerre-Nielsen)
- “Heterogeneous Returns to Fields of Study.” (with Kristian Bernt Karlson and Mikkel Høst Gandil)
Publications
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“Firm Innovation and Continuing Education.” Eriksen J. & J. R. Holm (2021). In Globalization, New and Emerging Technologies, and Sustainable Development – The Danish Innovation System in Transition, Routledge. [Preprint]
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“The Geography of Intergenerational Mobility - Danish Evidence.” Eriksen, J. & M. D. Munk (2020). Economics Letters, Vol. 189, 109024. [Preprint] [Supplementary data (Dataverse)]
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“Time-Series Cross-Section Analyser i Komparativ Politisk Økonomi.” Eriksen J. & S. Etzerodt (2018). Metode og Forskningsdesign, Vol. 3. [Paper] [Supplementary files (Github)]
Reports
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“Udsyn I Udskolingen – Kvantitativ Evaluering af Læringsorienteret Uddannelses-vejledning.” Eriksen, J., Thomsen, R. & D. Reimer (2021). DPU, Aarhus Universitet. [Report]
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“The Importance of GPA Requirements for VET and Low-Income Students”. Eriksen, J, & S. Dougherty (2021), p. 132-143. In The Next Steps for Apprenticeship, edited by Cedefop/OECD. Cedefop Reference Series; No 118. Luxembourg: Publications Office. [Report]
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“Educated Cities and Regional Centralization: Spatial Trends in Students’ Location in Denmark, 1982-2013.” Eriksen, J. (2017). Center for Research on Regional Dynamics and Inequality, Aalborg University. [Report]