I am an Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen, and a member of EduQuant. My research focuses on questions in education and labor economics. 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. I have also been a visiting researcher including at the Harvard Kennedy School, the LSE, UMass Amherst, and CEBI at the University of Copenhagen.
Contact: jesper.eriksen@econ.ku.dk
Working papers
- 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]
- The Long-Run Effects of Refugee Inflows on Native Children’s Economic Mobility.
- Submitted. [WP]
- Switching Strategies? Peer Impacts of Moving Disabled Students to General Education Classrooms
- With Laura Caron and Jeppe Johansen
- [WP]
Ongoing research
- Making Firms Train: Empirical evidence from a Danish tax reform.
- With Mette Ejrnæs
- School Peers and Education Choice.
- With Saandra Nandakumar and Andreas Bjerre-Nielsen
- Heterogeneous Returns to Fields of Study.
- With Kristian Bernt Karlson and Mikkel Høst Gandil
Publications
- 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]
- The Geography of Intergenerational Mobility - Danish Evidence. Eriksen, J. & M. D. Munk (2020). Economics Letters, Vol. 189, 109024. [Preprint] [Supplementary data (Dataverse)]
- Time-Series Cross-Section Analyser i Komparativ Politisk Økonomi. Eriksen J. & S. Etzerodt (2018). Metode og Forskningsdesign, Vol. 3. [Paper] [Supplementary files (Github)]
Reports
- Udsyn I Udskolingen – Kvantitativ Evaluering af Læringsorienteret Uddannelses-vejledning. Eriksen, J., Thomsen, R. & D. Reimer (2021). DPU, Aarhus Universitet. [Report]
- 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]
- 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]