Effects of Parental Death on Labor Market Outcomes (Forthcoming Article) - We use Danish administrative data to examine the effects of parental death on labor market outcomes. Leveraging the timing of sudden, first parental deaths and a matched-control difference-in-differences strategy, we find that men's earnings decline by 2%, while women's earnings decline by 3% following a parental death. Both women and men experience mental health deterioration, leading to increased use of psychological assistance and prescriptions for mental health conditions and opioids. Women with young children experience a comparatively larger earnings decline (around 4%) likely due to the loss of informal childcare.

Forthcoming in the AER: "Effects of Parental Death on Labor Market Outcomes" by Mathias Fjællegaard Jensen and Ning Zhang.

Congratulations! Amazing news!

I am very excited to have received 5.6 million Danish kroner from the Danmarks Frie Forskningsfond to investigate the role of teachers for students with mental, behavioral, and neurodevelopmental disorders under the theme "learning and well-being in primary schools".

dff.dk/om-fonden/ny...

I am so excited that our paper (with Arthur Seibold and @sigginho.bsky.social)on the partial privatisation of public disability insurance in Germany was published today in Econometrica! It was an incredible journey and I am very grateful to everyone who supported me and made this possible.

Econometrica Volume 93, Issue 5 (September 2025) is now online
www.econometricsociety.org/publications...

Submission deadline for the 2nd @public-econ-ie.bsky.social workshop extended by a week, so still time to submit your paper or extended abstract at publiceconomics.ie/submit