Why do some upper secondary graduates choose a long degree with a steep career trajectory, while others pick something shorter and safer? A new international study led by researchers at CEBI shows that patience and appetite for risk shape young people's choice of higher education almost as strongly as their school grades.

Infants exposed to respiratory illnesses via older siblings typically fare worse in terms of education, income and health in adulthood. This is shown by new research from the University of Copenhagen.

Frikk Nesje, Associate Professor at the Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen, has been awarded the European Achievement Award for Researchers in Environmental Economics under the Age of Forty.