Eyðfríð Juanna Schrøter Joensen Date of birth: July 27, 1979 Department of Economics Citizenship: Danish University of Chicago Phone: +1 (773) 702 9014 1126 East 59th Street Email: JJoensen@uchicago.edu Chicago, IL 60637 sites.google.com/juannajoensen EMPLOYMENT Senior Research Associate July 2015 Department of Economics, University of Chicago Assistant Professor January 2008 June 2015 Department of Economics, Stockholm School of Economics Post Doc September 2007 December 2007 Department of Economics, Aarhus University PhD scholarship September 2003 August 2007 Department of Economics, Aarhus University RA at Centre for Research in Integration and April 2001 August 2003 Marginalization (CIM), Aarhus School of Business ACADEMIC VISITS Longer visits, > 1 month: Visiting Assistant Professor Winter, Spring 2015 Department of Economics, University of Chicago Visiting Assistant Professor Spring 2014 Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania Visiting Assistant Professor Spring 2014 New York University, Wagner Visiting Lecturer Fall 2013 Department of Economics, University College London Visiting Research Scholar Fall 2006, Spring 2007 Department of Economics, University of Texas at Austin Shorter visits, 1-3 weeks: (Spring 2014) Federal Reserve Bank of New York. (September 2013, October 2014) IPR, Northwestern University. (2011-13, recurrent visits) Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. (May 2009) Yale University, Econ. (Oct.-Nov. 2008) University of Michigan, Econ. EDUCATION PhD in Economics November 2007 Department of Economics, Aarhus University Dissertation title: Determinants and Consequences of Human Capital Investments (Awarded Jyske Bank s Fund Prize for best PhD dissertation in two-year period 2006-2007 at the School of Economics and Management, and Aarhus University Research Foundation PhD Prize 2008 for best PhD dissertation in 2007 at the Faculty of Social Sciences) Supervisors: H. S. Nielsen, M. Svarer. Committee: K. Albæk, P. Arcidiacono, P. Pedersen MSc in Mathematics and Economics (cand.scient.oecon) August 2005 Department of Mathematical Sciences, Aarhus University BSc in Mathematics and Economics September 1999 - June 2002 Department of Mathematical Sciences, Aarhus University 1
RESEARCH Publications: - CURRICULUM VITAE - - Mathematics and Gender: Heterogeneity in Causes and Consequences, with H. S. Nielsen. Economic Journal, June 2016, 126: 1129-1163 - Grades and Rank: Impacts of Non-Financial Incentives on Test Performance, with N. Jalava and E. Pellas. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, July 2015, 115: 161-196 - Understanding the Effects of Marriage and Divorce on Financial Investments: The Role of Background Risk Sharing, with C. Christiansen and J. Rangvid. Economic Inquiry, January 2015, 53(1): 431-447 - Is there a Causal Effect of High School Math on Labor Market Outcomes?, with H. S. Nielsen. Journal of Human Resources, February 2009, 44(1): 171-198 - Are Economists More Likely to Hold Stocks?, with C. Christiansen and J. Rangvid. Review of Finance, August 2008, 12(3): 465-496 - The Risk-Return Trade-off in Human Capital Investment, with C. Christiansen and H. S. Nielsen. Labour Economics, December 2007, 14(6): 971-986 Working Papers: - Academic and Labor Market Success: The Impact of Student Employment, Abilities, and Preferences - Timing and Incentives: Impacts of Student Aid on Academic Achievement - Student Aid, Academic Achievement, and Labor Market Behavior: Grants or Loans?, with E. Mattana - Spillovers in Educational Choice, with H. S. Nielsen. R&R Journal of Public Economics Other Publications and Dissemination: - Which Countries (Do not) Become Tax Havens? A comparative investigation of the (non)tax haven strategies in the Faroe Islands, the Cook Islands, and the Netherlands Antilles, with L. Seabrooke, J. C. Sharman and G. Weihe, CBS Press, 2014. - Er flere økonomer aktieejere?, with C. Christiansen, Bladet Ø, 35(3), Nov. 2006, 44-47 - Effekten af højniveau matematik i gymnasiet på lønnen, with H. S. Nielsen, Bladet Ø, 35(2), October 2006, 12-15 - Er mænd mere tilbøjelige til at købe aktier end kvinder?, Børsfokus Nr. 112 / Are Men More Prone to Invest in Stocks than Women?, Focus No. 112, September 2006, with C. Christiansen and J. Rangvid - Har viden om økonomi betydning for private investorers beslutninger om at købe aktier?, Børsfokus Nr. 108 / Does knowledge of economics have an impact on private investors decision of whether to invest in stocks?, Focus No. 108, April 2006, with C. Christiansen and J. Rangvid - Har uddannelse betydning for beslutningen om aktiekøb?, with C. Christiansen and J. Rangvid, Aktionæren, December 2005, 6-7 - Ejer flere økonomer aktier?, C. Christiansen and J. Rangvid, Finans/Invest 1/05, 23-26 2
AWARDS EALE Young Labour Economist Prize 2009 September 2009 The Aarhus University Research Foundation (AUFF) PhD Prize June 2008 The Jyske Bank s Fund Prize (Jyske Banks Almennyttige Fonds Pris) June 2008 The Copenhagen Stock Exchange (OMX) Award 2006 September 2006 RESEARCH SUPPORT Swedish Research Council, Incentives and Institutions: Impacts of Student Aid on Academic Achievement and Labor Market Behavior (PI, SEK 4mill) 2013 2016 Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, Effects of Education on Labor Market, Health, and Social Outcomes (PI, SEK 3mill) 2013 2015 Jan Wallanders och Tom Hedelius Stiftelse, program with PI: R. Friberg 2011 2012 Centre for Strategic Research in Education (CSER), co-researcher 2010 2015 Jan Wallanders och Tom Hedelius Stiftelse, Wallander Stipend 2008 2011 Faroese Research Council, Why no Tax Haven? (PI: G. Weihe) 2008 2011 Danish Research Agency, Education as a Risky Asset (PI: H. S. Nielsen) 2003 2007 ACADEMIC AFFILIATIONS Recurrent Visitor, Department of Economics, Stockholm School of Economics 2015 Network Member, Human Capital and Economic Opportunity (HCEO) 2015 Research Fellow, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) 2014 OTHER ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES Referee for: American Economic Review, American Education Research Journal, Bulletin of Economic Research, Economic Inquiry, Economic Journal, Economics Letters, Economics of Education Review, Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Education Economics, European Economic Review, Faroese Research Council, Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy (IFAU), Hans Reitzels Forlag, Journal of Applied Economics, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Human Capital, Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Population Economics, Journal of Public Economics, Labour Economics, Manchester School, National Science Foundation (NSF), Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), Quality Assurance in Education, Review of Financial Studies, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Southern Economic Journal. PhD supervisor of: Margherita Bottero (2 nd, June 2011, Bank of Italy), Claudia Wolff (1 st, June 2013, Medtronic, Lausanne), Elena Mattana (2 nd, September 2013, CORE- UCLouvain), Arna Varðardóttir (2 nd, May 2014, Copenhagen Business School), Luca Facchinello (2 nd, June 2016, Singapore Management University) Opponent of: Fredrik Sävje (Licentiate in Economics, Uppsala University, June 2013) Conference organization: 6 th Nordic Summer Institute in Labor Economics, Faroe Islands, June 2011. Program committee: 20 th LACEA Annual Meeting, Bolivia, Oct. 2015. Board member: University of Faroe Islands (Fróðskaparsetur Føroya), January 2009 3
TEACHING ECON31330 Structural Dynamic Modeling: Discrete Choice Fall 2015 ECON21000 Econometrics A Fall 2015 Department of Economics, University of Chicago PhD516 Structural Dynamic Modeling: Discrete Choice Fall 2014 PhD511 Microeconometrics Fall 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 651 Empirical Economics Fall 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 659 BSc Thesis in Economics Spring 2013 5350 MSc Thesis in Economics Fall 2012; Spring 2013 5304 Econometrics Fall 2009, 2014 Department of Economics, Stockholm School of Economics Microeconomics II (General Equilibrium, Game- and Contract Theory) Fall 2007 Department of Mathematical Sciences, Aarhus University Introductory programming course in Spring 2003, 2004; Fall 2005, 2006 GAUSS, SAS and Stata for RA s and PhD students in Economics, Aarhus University CONFERENCE AND SEMINAR PRESENTATIONS (2005-2016) 2016 (September) Keynote speaker, Advances with Field Experiments (AFE), Chicago. (April) The Donald J. Bogue Demography Workshop, University of Chicago. (January) Workshop on Education Lecture Series, University of Chicago. 2015 (August) 11 th Econometric Society World Congress (ESWC), Montreal. (June) 26 th Society for Economic Dynamics (SED) Annual Meeting, Warsaw. (June) Economics Seminar, Umeå School of Business and Economics (USBE). (May) Workshop in Family Economics, University of Chicago. (April) Applied Microeconomics Workshop, Norwegian School of Economics. 2014 (November) IIES seminar, Stockholm University. (October) Applications of Economics workshop, University of Chicago. (October) Department of Economics seminar, University of Bergen. (September) Workshop on Economics of Education, Aarhus University. (September) SOFI seminar, Stockholm University. (September) Economics seminar, Copenhagen Business School. (June) 25 th SED Annual Meeting, Toronto. (June) 9 th Nordic Summer Institute in Labor Economics, Helsinki. (May) 19 th Annual SOLE Meetings, Arlington. (April) Lunch seminar, Federal Reserve Bank of New York. (April) Empirical Micro Workshop, University of Pennsylvania. (March) Labor Workshop, University of Wisconsin-Madison. (January) AEA Annual Meeting, Philadelphia. 2013 (December) Economics Workshop, University of Edinburgh. (December) Workshop on Self-Control, Self-regulation, and Education, Aarhus University. (November) IFS seminar, London. (November) 1 st European Workshop on Entrepreneurship Economics, CEPR/Tinbergen Institute, Amsterdam. (November) Education group seminar, CEP/LSE. (October) Department of Economics seminar, University of Sussex. (June) 4 th International Workshop on Applied Economics of Education, IWAEE. (June) 8 th Nordic Summer Institute in Labor Economics, Aarhus. (April) Economics lunch seminar, Stockholm School of Economics. (April) Department of Economics seminar, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim. (March) Department of Economics 4
seminar, University of Illinois at Chicago. (February) IFAU seminar, Uppsala University. (February) ROA DUHR seminar, Maastricht University. 2012 (October) IIES seminar, Stockholm University. (October) IFN seminar, Stockholm. (August) Research seminar, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. (July) Workshop on the Determinants of Tax Havens, Tórshavn. (June) 23 rd SED Annual Meeting, Cyprus. (June) 3 rd International Workshop on Applied Economics of Education IWAEE, Catanzaro. (May) Economics lunch seminar, Aarhus University. (May) 17 th Annual SOLE Meetings, Chicago. (March) Economics lunch seminar, Stockholm School of Economics. 2011 (December) Applied Economics and Econometrics Seminar, University of Mannheim. (November) Macroeconomic Workshop, Arizona State University. (October) SITE seminar, Stockholm School of Economics. (October) IFN seminar, Stockholm. (October) EPRU seminar, University of Copenhagen. (September) Lecture on Productivity, Growth and Welfare, Vinnudagurin, Tórshavn. (August) 65 th European Meeting of the Econometric Society (EEA-ESEM), Oslo. (August) 5 th Summer Symposium in Macroeconomics, Smögen. (July) 22 nd SED Annual Meeting, Ghent. (June) Labor Markets, Families, and Children workshop, Stavanger. (May) FSE Research Unit workshop, Aarhus. (May) 2 nd IZA Workshop on Entrepreneurship Research, Bonn. (April) 16 th Annual SOLE Meetings, Vancouver. 2010 (November) Statistics Norway (SSB) research seminar, Oslo. (October) CEIS seminar, Facoltà di Economia, Università di Roma "Tor Vergata". (October) Development, Labor, Political Economy Seminar, Department of Economics, Bocconi. (August) 10 th Econometric Society World Congress (ESWC), Shanghai. (July) Skill Formation in Childhood and Adolescence: Economic and Behavioral Perspectives, Freiburg. (July) 21 st Society for Economic Dynamics (SED) Annual Meeting, Montréal. (June) 2 nd Meeting of the Danish Microeconometric Network, Kandestederne. (June) 3 rd International EALE/SOLE conference, UCL. (June) 5 th Nordic Summer Institute in Labor Economics, Reykjavík. (May) Women in Top Corporate Jobs, Aarhus School of Business. (April) BeNA Leibniz seminar on Labor Research, DIW Berlin. (March) Labour, Region and the Environment seminar, Tinbergen Institute, Amsterdam. (March) IFAU seminar, Uppsala. (March) Economics Research Seminar, Royal Holloway, University of London. (March) SOFI seminar, Stockholm University. 2009 (September) 21 st annual EALE conference, Tallinn. (June) Lunch Seminar, Aarhus University. (June) 23 rd annual ESPE conference, Seville. (June) Department of Economics Seminar, University of Sussex. (May) Labor and Population Workshop, Department of Economics, Yale. (January) Labour Seminar, Department of Economics, Uppsala University. 2008 (December) Economics Workshop, University of Edinburgh. (November) Economics Seminar, Aarhus University. (November) Department of Economics seminar, Stockholm University. (November) Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN) seminar, Stockholm. (November) Labor Seminar, Department of Economics, University of Michigan. (September) 20 th annual EALE conference, University of Amsterdam. (August) 23 rd Annual Congress of EEA- ESEM, Bocconi University. (May) 7 th IZA/SOLE Transatlantic Meeting of Labor 5
Economists, Buch/Ammersee. (May) 13 th Annual SOLE Meetings, Columbia University. (April) Economics lunch seminar, Stockholm School of Economics. (January) Investment culture lecture, Faroese Securities Market/Stóra Pakkhús. 2007 (December) School of Economics seminar, University College Dublin. (November) Investment culture lecture, Faroese Securities Market. (November) IMFUFA seminar, Department of Science, Roskilde University. (November) Educational Choice seminar, DEA/CEBR/CBS/SDU/Tuborgfondet. (October) Labour Market Dynamic Growth (LMDG), Sandbjerg. (June) Economics seminar, Aarhus University. (June) 21 th annual ESPE conference, University of Illinois at Chicago. (April) Labor lunch seminar, University of Texas at Austin. (February) School of Economics and Management, Aarhus University. (February) Department of Economics, Stockholm School of Economics. 2006 (September) Labor lunch seminar, University of Texas at Austin. (August) Do Schools Matter? workshop, Aarhus School of Business. (June) 20 th annual ESPE conference, Verona University. (June) 1 st EEEPE Summer School, CEPR/EENEE/University of Padova. (May) XI th Spring Meeting of Young Economists, University of Seville. (April) IZA Workshop on Schooling and Risk, Bonn. (April) Topics in Applied Economics and Finance, Aarhus University. 2005 (December) PhD workshop, Aarhus University. (November) DGPE workshop, Ebeltoftstrand. (October) 2 nd EEEPE Network Workshop, CEPR/IFAU/Uppsala University. (September) International Conference on Finance, Copenhagen. (June) Topics in Applied Economics and Finance, Aarhus University. (June) 19 th annual ESPE conference, Paris. 6