PhD defence: Mathias Fjællegaard Jensen

This thesis consists of three independent chapters on gender and skills in the labour market. In the first chapter, I show the advantages of individual-level matched vacancy-employer-employee data by estimating returns to task-specific skills and their heterogeneity across genders while controlling for firm and occupation fixed effects. In the second chapter, we exploit a reform to the child benefit system in Denmark to assess the effects of child benefits on parental labour supply. In the final chapter, we exploit discontinuities from the Danish university enrolment system and find that students who are marginally accepted into their preferred program in a broad field that is different from their next-best choice (e.g. business rather than science) experience significant and long-lasting rewards as a result.
 
Primary Supervisor:

Associate Professor Fane Naja Groes
Department of Economics
Copenhagen Business School
 
Secondary Supervisor:
Associate Professor Herdis Steingrimsdottir
Department of Economics
Copenhagen Business School
 
Assessment Committee:
Professor MSO Dario Pozzoli (Chair)
Department of Economics
Copenhagen Business School
 
Associate Professor Miriam Wüst
Department of Economics
Copenhagen Business School
 
Professor Lise Vesterlund
Department of Economics
University of Pittsburgh
 
Thesis:

The thesis will be available from research.cbs.dk
 
Reception:

The CBS PhD School will host a reception, which will take place immediately after the defence in FUHU Faculty Club (3rd floor, above the canteen, Solbjerg Plads)