Nick Fabrin Nielsen defends his PhD thesis at the Department of Economics
Candidate:Nick Fabrin Nielsen
Title
"Empirical essays at the intersection of economics, health, and education"
Time and venue
4 March 2019 at 15:30. University of Copenhagen, Centre for Health and Society, Øster Farimagsgade 5, 1353 Copenhagen K, building 26, room 26.2.21.
Assessment committee
Associate professor Mette Gørtz, Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen, Denmark (chairman)
Professor Maarten Lindeboom, Vrije University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Reader Annette Bergemann, Bristol University, United Kingdom
Abstract
This thesis consists of 4 self-contained chapters with topics at the intersection of economics, health and education.
Each individual chapter presents a specific empirical investigation into one or more of the following broad category of questions:
- How does health influence the economic possibilities of individuals?
- How does economic circumstance and choice affect health of individuals?
- How does the childhood environment shape the (economic) future of children?
The chapters are:
- Association of Type 1 Diabetes With Standardized Test Scores of Danish Schoolchildren
- Socioeconomic Inequality in metabolic control among children with type 1 diabetes: a nationwide longitudinal study of 4,079 Danish children
- Sick of Retirement?
- Differential Effects of the Timing of Divorce on Children’s outcomes: Evidence from Denmark