Mathias Fjællegaard Jensen

Substantial earnings penalties exist for racial minorities in France. Compared to the US, lower overall inequality benefits French racial minorities, but rank gaps are comparable, from Yajna Govind, Paolo Santini, and Ellora Derenoncourt https://www.nber.org/papers/w34013

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Revealed Beliefs and the Marriage Market Return to Education* Abstract. We develop a new methodology to estimate subjective beliefs from hypothetical choice data. Our identification approach is based on the novel insi

Recently accepted by #QJE, “Revealed Beliefs and the Marriage Market Return to Education,” by Andrew (@alisonandrew.bsky.social) and Adams (@abicadams.bsky.social): doi.org/10.1093/qje/...

Big day yesterday, marking the end of my DPhil (Oxford lingo for PhD) 👨🏻‍🎓! Huge thanks to @melindacmills.bsky.social and @drcompton.bsky.social for making my viva a wonderful experience. Very excited that I get to continue studying queer populations as a postdoc here in Oxford in the years to come!

Morten in formal Oxford examination academic dress, looking pensive, contemplating his next career move now that he has his Phd, surrounded by majestic columns in Oxford

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@mortenkthomsen.bsky.social who successfully defended his Phd 📖 & thanks to @drcompton.bsky.social

Important #demography work using register, survey & medical records to study the lives of sexual & gender minorities. @oxforddemsci.bsky.social @sociologyoxford.bsky.social

NEW PAPER w. Christian Gillitzer, Peer Skov, @jakobsogaard.bsky.social!
We develop a new method to estimate the marginal propensity to consume (MPC). In contrast to most earlier studies, we don't rely on (rare) quasi-experiments.
The idea is simple...
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Daughters of immigrants are more upwardly mobile than daughters of locals in most destinations. Sons of immigrants are only more upwardly mobile outside of continental Europe, from Boustan, Fjællegaard Jensen, Abramitzky, Jácome, et al https://www.nber.org/papers/w33558

50 years of International Women’s Day and feeling tremendous sadness over recent anti-DEI developments. Light is seen in the organizations that boldly maintain that success hinges on providing employees equal opportunity for reaching their potential.

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*Impressive* piece of work showing differences in intergenerational mobility of immigrants across countries. Finding that resonated the most w/me is importance of access to citizenship - which is still unreasonably hard in many countries, esp. my home country of Italy.

Thanks so much for sharing, @barbarabiasi.com!

Thanks so much, @annagoeddeke.bsky.social! And sorry I missed you, @mhalla.bsky.social 😅

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10/ Comments are very welcome!

9/ And yes… It’s a pretty long paper! But primarily because we include sets of country-specific results – if interested in a particular country, go to Appendix C. bsky.app/profile/peng...

8/ Michael Siegenthaler, Louis Sirugue, Javier Soria Espín, Jan Stuhler, Giovanni L. Violante, Dinand Webbink, Andrea Weber, @jzhangecon.bsky.social, Angela Zheng, and Tom Zohar...

7/ Yvonne Giesing, @yajnagovind.bsky.social, Martin Halla, Dominik Hangartner, Yuyan Jiang, Cecilia Karmel, Fanny Landaud, @lindseymacmillan.bsky.social, @izmartinez86.bsky.social, @poloalberto.com, Panu Poutvaara, Hillel Rapoport, Sara Roman, Kjell G. Salvanes, @mulysan.bsky.social,

6/ Team includes: Leah Boustan, @fjaellegaard.bsky.social, Ran Abramitzky, Elisa Jácome, @alanmanning4.bsky.social, Santiago Pérez, Analysia Watley, @adrianadermon.bsky.social, @jarellanobover.com, @olofaslund.bsky.social, Marie Connolly, Nathan Deutscher, Anne C. Gielen,

5/ This paper is a massive collaboration – 38 amazing co-authors (!) – bringing together unique datasets from around the world. We hope it sparks further discussion on immigration and economic mobility. Read it here: docs.iza.org/dp17711.pdf

4/ Why do children of immigrants in some countries do better than others? We find that access to citizenship, labor market institutions, and attitudes toward immigrants matter. In places with long immigration histories (US/Canada/Australia/Israel), second-gen immigrants often face higher income.

3/ Yet, not all income gaps close. Sons of immigrants in many European countries often face lower income compared to sons of local-born parents. Our analysis shows that second-gen gaps in absolute income mobility vary substantially by country, more so for sons.

2/ First-generation immigrants tend to have lower incomes than locals, but their children often move up the economic ladder. In most countries, second-gen income gaps shrink – sometimes disappearing altogether. Daughters of immigrants do particularly well in most destinations.

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How do the economic trajectories of children of immigrants vary across 15 high-income countries? We study intergenerational mobility of immigrants, using individual-level linked parent-child data across Europe, North America, and beyond. 🧵👇 #EconSky

Latest paper on comparing intergenerational mobility of the kids of migrants with kids of locals in 15 countries. It has a very long author list so I feel like a real scientist at last. www.iza.org/publications...

@abicadams.bsky.social, Barbara Petrongolo and I provide new results on the implications of birth timing & spacing on parental leave dynamics and child penalty estimates. More details ⬇️

Thanks a lot, Per! Comments are more than welcome 😁

Thanks for sharing our paper ❤️ Pages per capita still low! 😁

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Background Matters, but Not Whether Parents Are Immigrants: Outcomes of Children Born in Denmark (Forthcoming Article) - In Europe, the children of migrants often have worse economic outcomes than those with local-born parents. This paper shows that children born in Denmark with immigrant parents...

Forthcoming in AEJ: Applied Economics: "Background Matters, but Not Whether Parents Are Immigrants: Outcomes of Children Born in Denmark" by Mathias Fjællegaard Jensen and Alan Manning. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...