Mette Ejrnæs

Mette Ejrnæs

Professor

Mette Ejrnæs has been professor in economics at University of Copenhagen since 2012. Her research area are labor market, family and health economics as well as consumption and income processes. 

Research groups
Center for Economic Behaviour and Inequality
Econometrics Group

Primary fields of research

Applied micro econometrics

Current research

  • Unemployment Insturance 
  • Child well-being
  • Fertility

Teaching

Probability theory, Empirical analyses; Statistics; Microeconometrics; Panel data; Register data, Demography, Labour market.

Fields of interest

  • Income and consumption
  • Fertility
  • Child well-being
  • Earnings and Labour supply

Selected publications

  1. Published

    Income and Consumption: A Micro Semistructural Analysis with Pervasive Heterogeneity

    Alan, S., Browning, Martin & Ejrnæs, Mette, Oct 2018, In: Journal of Political Economy. 126, 5, p. 1827-1864

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  2. Published

    Is Business Failure Due to Lack of Effort? Empirical Evidence from a Large Administrative Sample

    Ejrnæs, Mette & Hochguertel, S., Sep 2013, In: Economic Journal. 123, 571, p. 791-830 40 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  3. Published

    Work and Wage Dynamics around Childbirth

    Ejrnæs, Mette & Kunze, A., Jul 2013, In: Scandinavian Journal of Economics. 115, 3, p. 856–877 22 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  4. Published

    Modelling income processes with lots of heterogeneity

    Browning, M., Ejrnæs, Mette & Alvarez, J., 2010, In: Review of Economic Studies. 77, 4, p. 1353-1381 29 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  5. Published

    Consumption and Children

    Browning, M. & Ejrnæs, Mette, 2009, In: Review of Economics and Statistics. 91, 1, p. 93-111 19 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  6. Published

    Birth order and the intrahousehold allocation of time and education

    Ejrnæs, Mette & Pörtner, C. C., 2004, In: Review of Economics and Statistics. 86, 4, p. 1008-1019

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

Selected activities

  1. De Økonomiske Råds formandskab (External organisation)

    Ejrnæs, Mette (Member)

    14 Jun 2023

    Activity: Membership typesMembership in committee, council, board

  2. Lønstrukturkomiteen (External organisation)

    Ejrnæs, Mette (Member)

    20212023

    Activity: Membership typesMembership in committee, council, board

  3. Ydelseskommissionen (External organisation)

    Ejrnæs, Mette (Member)

    20202021

    Activity: Membership typesMembership in committee, council, board

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