Curriculum Vitae - Rockwool Fonden

Curriculum Vitae: Signe Hald Andersen
Personal Data:
Born 19th of May, 1978
Current Position
Head of projects and Senior Researcher at the Rockwool Foundation Research Unit
Sølvgade 10, 2.
DK-1307 Copenhagen K
Denmark
Telephone: +45 39 17 38 13
Telefax: +45 39 20 52 19
E-mail: sha@rff.dk
Education:
2009: PhD-degree in Sociology, Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen. Thesis title:
Dealing with unemployment. Programme Effects on Psychological and Labour Market Outcomes
(Examination board: Andrew Clark, Mattias Strandh, and Jørgen Elm Larsen)
2004: Master’s Degree in Sociology, Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen. Thesis
title: The Perfect Match.
2001: Bachelor’s degree in Sociology, Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen. Thesis
title: Demokrati og den vestlige kulturarv [Democracy and the Cultural Heritage of the West].
Research Experience
 December 2011- current: Head of Projects and Senior Researcher at the Rockwool Foundation
Research Unit
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April 2010 –December 2011: Senior Researcher at the Rockwool Foundation Research Unit
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September 2008 – April 2010: Researcher at the Rockwool Foundation Research Unit
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April 2006 – august 2008: Ph. D. Student at the AKF (Institute of Local Government Studies –
Denmark) and the Institute of Sociology, University of Copenhagen. Title of my project:
Sociological perspectives on the effect of active labour market policies on labour market
outcomes
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May 2004 – April 2006: Research Assistant, AKF, Institute of Local Government Studies –
Denmark. Main task: Labour market research based on statistical analyses of data from
administrative registers
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May 2000 – August 2002: Student assistant, AKF. Main task: Statistical analyses of data from
administrative registers on projects concerning unemployment, health and education.
Teaching experience:
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Spring semester 2012: “6QNM. Quantitative Methods II” at the institution for BSc in Business
Administration and Sociology, Copenhagen Business School.
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Fall semester 2011: “Causal Criminology” at the Institute of Sociology, University of
Copenhagen (joint with Lars Højsgaard Andersen and Peer Skov)
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March 2003 – June 2004: Teaching assistant at the Royal School of Library, Copenhagen. Main
task: Teaching qualitative and quantitative methods to students at bachelor level.
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September 2001 – June 2004: Teaching assistant at the Institute of Sociology, University of
Copenhagen. Main task: Teaching sociological theory and sociological problems to students at
bachelor level.
Other qualifications
Ph.d. courses taken:
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Experimental Summer School (w. Professors Raymond Duch, Michele Belot, Luis Miller,
Dominick Hantgartner & Wojtek Przepiorka), july 2011
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Economics of Education (w. professor Victor Lavy, at the Department of Economics, University
of Aarhus), april 22.-24., 2008.
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Academic Writing (w. Natalie Reid, at Institute of Sociology, University of Copenhagen), april
15.-17, 2008
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Causal Inference (w. Professor Dan Rubin and Professor Guido Imbens, at IFAU, University of
Uppsala), June 18. – 21. 2007
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Causal Inference: Regression discontinuity (w. Professor David Lee, at IFAU, University of
Uppsala), May 22. – 25. 2007
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The Econometrics of Policy Design (w. Professor Edward Vytlacil, at the Department of
Economics, University of Aarhus), April 30.- May 2., 2007
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Program Evaluation (w. Professor Jeffrey Smith and Professor Michael Lechner, at the
Department of Economics, University of Aarhus), December 18.-20. 2006
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Empirical Strategies (w. Professor Joshua Angrist, Department of Economics, Aarhus), August
21. – 23. 2006
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Normativitet i samfundsvidenskaberne [Normativity in the Social Sciences], (Department of
Sociology, University of Copenhagen), 27 April 2006.
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Economics and Econometrics of Program Evaluation (w. Professor Jeffrey Smith, Department
of Economics, Aarhus), October, 2005.
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Structural Equation Modeling (Department of Biostatistics, University of Copenhagen), autumn
2004
Visiting scholarships
 September 2006- December 2006: ECASS Visitor, ISER, University of Essex, UK
 July 2009 – January 2010: Visiting fellow, CIQLE, Yale University
Grants
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PhD project “Beskæftigelseseffekten af arbejdsmarkedsforanstaltninger i et sociologisk
perspektiv [The labour market effects of active labour market policies, seen from a sociological
angle], Strategic Research Council grant DKK 1.806,706 (app. USD 301,100)
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Post Doc Project ” How and why does parental absence from the labour market affect child
outcomes?” Danish Social Science Research Council. DKK 1.526,935 (app. USD 255.000)
Computing skills:
MS Office, for statistical analysis: SPSS, SAS, Mplus, Stata, GAUSS.
Recent Publications:
Articles in peer reviewed journals
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Andersen, Signe Hald (forthcoming): Serving time or serving the community? Exploiting a
policy reform to assess the causal effects of community service on income, social benefit
dependency and recidivism. Journal of Quantitative Criminology
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Andersen, Signe Hald, Andersen, Lars Højsgaard, & Skov, Peer (forthcoming): The Effect of
Marriage and Spousal Criminality on Recidivism. Journal of Marriage and Family
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Andersen, Signe Hald & Wildeman, Christopher (forthcoming): The Effect of Paternal
Incarceration on Children’s Risk of Foster Care Placement. Social Forces
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Andersen, Signe Hald (forthcoming): Complex patterns: On the characteristics of children who
experience high and low degrees of foster care drift. British Journal of Social Work
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Andersen, Lars Højsgaard & Andersen, Signe Hald (2014): Losing the stigma of incarceration:
does serving a sentence with electronic monitoring causally improve post-release labor market
outcomes? Criminology & Public Policy, 13(3): 1-31
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Wildeman, Christopher, Andersen, Signe Hald, Lee, Hedwig & Karlson, Kristian Bernt (2014):
Parental Incarceration and Child Mortality in Denmark. American Journal of Public Health,
104(3): 428-433.
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Andersen, Signe Hald (2013): Common genes or exogenous shock? Disentangling the causal
effect of paternal unemployment on children’s schooling efforts. European Sociological Review,
29(3): 477-488
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Breen, Richard & Andersen, Signe Hald (2012): Educational Assortative Partnerships and
earnings Inequality in Denmark. Demography, 49:867-887
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Andersen, Signe Hald and Hansen, Lars Gårn (2012): The Rise and Fall of Divorce–
Implications of Bourdieu on Becker’s model of the Marriage Market. Journal of Mathematical
Sociology, 36(2): 97-124
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Andersen, Signe Hald (2011): Exiting unemployment: How do program effects depend on
individual coping strategies. Journal of Economic Psychology, 32(2): 248-258
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Andersen, Signe Hald & Fallesen, Peter (2010): A question of class: On the heterogeneous
relationship between background characteristics and a child’s placement risk. Children and
Youth Services Review, 32(6): 783-789
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Andersen, Signe Hald (2010): A Good Place to Live: On How Municipality Level
Characteristics Explain Municipality Level variation in Children’s Placement Risk. Social
Service Review, June
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Andersen, Signe Hald (2010): The Cost of Sickness: On the Effect of the Duration of Sick
Leave on Post Sick Leave Earnings. Social Science & Medicine, 70(10): 1581-1589
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Andersen, Signe Hald (2009): Unemployment and Subjective Well-being. A Question of Class?
Work and Occupations, 36(1): 3-25
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Heinesen, Eskil, Husted, Leif & Andersen, Signe Hald (2009): Labour market integration of
immigrants: Estimating local authority effects. Journal of Population Economics, 22(4): 909
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Andersen, Signe Hald (2008): The short and long term effects of government training on
subjective well being. European Sociological Review, 24(4):451-462
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Andersen, Signe Hald & Heinesen, Eskil (2008): Estimating the relative success of local
authorities at labour market integration of immigrants. European Journal of Population, 24(1) :
59-86
Books
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Andersen, Signe Hald & Fallesen, Peter (2013): Når man anbringer et barn 2. Årsager, effekter
af anbringelsesforanstaltninger og konsekvenser. Odense: Syddansk Universitets Forlag
Book Chapters:
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Andersen, Signe Hald (2005) ’Globaliseringen og den vestlige kulturarv’ [Globalization and the
Cultural Heritage of the West]. In: Kaspersen, Lars Bo (red.): Globaliseringen på vrangen.
[Globalization cut up rough]. Frydenlund, København.
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Andersen, Signe Hald & Holm, Anders (2003): Breaking up Relationships: Women
marginalizing weak Males. In Kærgård, Niels (ed.): Symposium i Anvendt Statistik [Symposium
in Applied Statistics]. The Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, Copenhagen.
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Andersen, Signe Hald (2007): Unemployment and Well-being – a question of entry states? In
Linde, Peter (ed.): Symposium i Anvendt Statistik [Symposium in Applied Statistics]. School of
Economics and Management, Aarhus.
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Andersen, Signe Hald (2008): Heterogeneous Treatment Effects from Government Training does Well-being During unemployment explain the variation? In Bradshaw, Jonathan (red.):
International Studies on Social Security. Vol. 14
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Ebsen, Frank & Andersen, Signe Hald (2010): Foranstaltninger for udsatte børn i Danmark:
Historisk oprindelse og den seneste udvikling. In Andersen, Signe Hald (eds.): Når man
anbringer et barn. Odense: Syddansk Universitets Forlag
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Andersen, Signe Hald (2010): Hvad skyldes kommunale forskelle? In Andersen, Signe Hald
(eds.): Når man anbringer et barn. Odense: Syddansk Universitets Forlag
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Andersen, Signe Hald & Fallesen, Peter (2010): Risikofaktorer og sociale skel. In Andersen,
Signe Hald (eds.): Når man anbringer et barn. Odense: Syddansk Universitets Forlag
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Andersen, Signe Hald (2010): Svingdørsbørn? In Andersen, Signe Hald (eds.): Når man
anbringer et barn. Odense: Syddansk Universitets Forlag
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Andersen, Signe Hald & Fallesen, Peter (2010): Efter anbringelsen. In Andersen, Signe Hald
(eds.): Når man anbringer et barn. Odense: Syddansk Universitets Forlag
Reports:
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Andersen, Signe Hald (2006): Kommunal beskæftigelsessucces. [Success in municipal
employment schemes in Denmark]. Akf forlaget.
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Andersen, Signe Hald, Eskil Heinesen og Leif Husted (2005): Benchmarkinganalyse af
integrationen i kommunerne målt ved udlændinges beskæftigelse 1999-2002. [Benchmarking
Analysis of Danish Municipalities’ Integration Policies in the period 1999-2002]. Akf forlaget,
Copenhagen.
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Andersen, Signe Hald, Heinsen, Eskil & Husted, Leif (2005): Benchmarkinanalyse af
integrationen i kommunerne målt ved udlændinges selvforsørgelse 1999-2003. [Benchmarking
Analysis of Danish Municipalities’ Integration Policies in the Period 1999-2003]. Akf forlaget,
Copenhagen.
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Arendt, Jakob, Eskil Heinesen, Leif Husted, Bjørg Colding & Signe Hald Andersen (2004):
Kontanthjælpsforløbs varighed og afslutning. [The Duration and Termination of Periods on
Subsistence Benefit: Municipal Differences]. Akf forlaget, Copenhagen.
Popular science
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Andersen, Signe Hald (2006): Hjælper uddannelse indvandrere i beskæftigelse? Akf NYT,
2006:2:10-11.
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Andersen, Signe Hald (2005): Hvordan skal man måle integration? Akf NYT, 2005:3:3-5.
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Andersen, Signe Hald (2007): Hvordan skal man vurdere en kommunal indsats. Danske
Kommuner, 2007(33).
Working papers
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Andersen, Signe Hald: Unemployment and crime: Experimental evidence of the causal effects
of intensified ALMPs on crime rates among unemployed individuals.
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Andersen, Signe Hald: Getting into the game: An assessment of the causal effect of low birth
weight on out of home care, using mother's exposure to stressful handball matches.
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Andersen, Signe Hald & Özcan, Berkay: The Effects of Unemployment on Fertility.
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Andersen, Signe Hald & Hansen, Lars Gårn: Reforming ALMP Allocation when Caseworkers
Have an Information Advantage.
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Andersen, Signe Hald: The wage effect of a social experiment on intensified Active Labor
Market Policies.
Other:
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Andersen, Signe Hald (2004): The perfect match. Master’s Thesis, University of Copenhagen
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Andersen, Signe Hald (2009): Dealing with Unemployment. Programme Effects on
Psychological and Labour Market Outcomes. PhD Thesis, Institute of Sociology, University of
Copenhagen
Academic and conference presentations:
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Analytical-Quantitative Seminar Series (Oslo), April 2012. Paper: Serving time or serving the
community? Exploiting a policy reform to assess the causal effects of community service on
income, social benefit dependency and recidivism.
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European Population Conference (Stockholm), June 2012. Paper: Paper: The Impact of
Unemployment on Fertility Timing (joint with Berkay Ozcan, LSE)
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4th Annual Meeting on the Economics of Risky Behaviour (Istanbul), April 2012. Paper:
Serving time or serving the community? Exploiting a policy reform to assess the causal effects
of community service on income, social benefit dependency and recidivism.
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ASC Conference (Washington), November 2011. Paper: Serving time or serving the
community? Exploiting a policy reform to assess the causal effects of community service on
income, social benefit dependency and recidivism.
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CIQLE workshop (Yale University), November 11th 2011. Paper: Serving time or serving the
community? Exploiting a policy reform to assess the causal effects of community service on
income, social benefit dependency and recidivism.
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Life course dynamics and the mechanisms of social inequality? Workshop (Turku Center for
Welfare Research), August 29th-September 2011. Paper: Serving time or serving the
community? Exploiting a policy reform to assess the causal effects of community service on
income, social benefit dependency and recidivism.
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Stockholm Criminology Symposium (Stockholm), June 2011. Paper: Active labour market
programs and crime: On the causal effects of intensified ALMPs on unemployed persons’ crime
rates
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6th European Workshop on “Labour Markets and Demographic Change” (Vienna), April 2011.
Paper: The Impact of Unemployment on Fertility Timing (joint with Berkay Ozcan)
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ASC Conference (San Francisco), November 2010. Paper: Active labour market programs and
crime: On the causal effects of intensified ALMPs on unemployed persons’ crime rates
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ESC Conference (Liege), November 2010. Paper: Active labour market programs and crime: On
the causal effects of intensified ALMPs on unemployed persons’ crime rates
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ISA Conference (Gothenburg), July 2010. Paper: Active labour market programs and crime: On
the causal effects of intensified ALMPs on unemployed persons’ crime rates
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2nd meeting of the Danish Microeconometric Network (Kandestæderne), June, 2010. Paper: The
Wage Effect of a Social Experiment on Intensified Active Labor Market Policies
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CIQLE Workshop (Yale University), September 18, 2009: Paper: Active labour market
programs and crime: On the causal effects of intensified ALMPs on unemployed persons’ crime
rates
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RC28 Conference (New Haven), August 3. – 6., 2009. Paper: Active labour market programs
and crime: On the causal effects of intensified ALMPs on unemployed persons’ crime rates
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RC28 Conference (Florence), May 15.-17, 2008. Paper: Common genes or exogenous shock?
Disentangling the causal effect of paternal unemployment on children’s schooling efforts.
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ISQOLS Conference (San Diego), December 6.-9., 2007. Paper: The short and long term effect
of government training on subjective well being.
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ESA Conference (Glasgow), September 3.-6., 2007. Paper: The short and long term effect of
government training on subjective well being.
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BHPS Conference (Essex), July 5. – 7., 2007. Paper: The short and long term effect of
government training on subjective well being.
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FISS Seminar (Sigtuna), June 15.-17., 2007. Paper: The short and long term effect of
government training on subjective well being.
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CIM/AKF workshop (Nyborg), April 23.-24., 2007. Paper: Selection into training programs –
Norms or Economics?
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Symposium in Applied Statistics (Århus), 30.-31 January 2007. Paper: Unemployment and
well-being – a question of entry states?
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Panel Data Conference (Cambridge), 7.-9. July 2006. Paper: Do Transitions in marital status
change sex-role attitudes? – the Cowed Wives.
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The British Sociological Association’s Conference (Harrogate), 21.-23. April 2006. Paper: Do
Transitions in marital status change sex-role attitudes? – the Cowed Wives.
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Seminar on Migration, Academy for Migration Studies in Denmark (Ålborg), 5.-6. April 2006.
Paper: Benchmarking Analysis of Danish Municipalities’ Integration Policies in the period
1999-2003.
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The Danish Sociological Association’s Conference (Roskilde), 18.-20. August, 2005. Paper: Do
Transitions in Marital Status change Attitudes towards Marriage?.
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Symposium in Applied Statistics (København), 27-28 January 2004. Paper: Breaking up
Relationships: Women marginalizing weak Males.
Journal Review
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Social Forces
European Sociological Review
Environmental Economics and Policy Studies
Journal of Economic Psychology
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British Journal of Social Work
British Journal of Industrial Relations
Social Science & Medicine
Work & Occupations
Acta Sociologica