Papers
Publications
Birth Order and the Intrahousehold Allocation of Time and Education, (with Mette Ejrnæs). Review of Economics and Statistics, vol. 86(4), November 2004.
Child Health and Mortality: Does Health Knowledge Matter?, Journal of African Economies, vol. 11(4), 2002 (with Jens Kovsted and Finn Tarp).
Children as Insurance, Journal of Population Economics, Vol. 14(1): 119-136, 2001. [Abstract]
Working Papers
Literacy, Skills and Welfare: Effects of Participation in an Adult Literacy Program, (with Niels-Hugo Blunch). University of Washington, Department of Economics, Working paper UWEC-2005-23-R. Revised and resubmitted to Economic Development and Cultural
Change, August 2009.
Children’s Time Allocation, Heterogeneity and Simultaneous Decisions. University of Washington, Department of Economics, Working Paper UWEC-2009-15, submitted to Journal of Population Economic, May 2009.
Gone With the Wind? Hurricane Risk, Fertility and Education.
University of Washington, Department of Economics, Working paper UWEC-2006-19-R. Revised February 2008.
Evolution of Poverty and Welfare in Ghana in the 1990s: Achievements and Challenges, (with Sudharshan Canagarajah). Africa Region Working Paper Series No. 61 (October 2003), World Bank.
Research in Progress
“The Demand for Sex-Selective Abortions.”
“Family Planning and Fertility: Estimating Program Effects using Cross-sectional Data”
Theses
Children and Household Behaviour in Developing Countries. PhD thesis, Institute of Economics, University of Copenhagen. December 2001.
Population and Economic Growth. MSc Dissertation, Institute of Economics, University of Copenhagen. June 1996. [Abstract]
Endogenous Fertility and Economic Growth. MA Dissertation, Development Economics, School of Social Sciences, University of Sussex. September 1996.