Frederiksen et al. (2026) Working Hours, Top Management Appointments, and Gender: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data | Journal of Labor Economics | 1994–2010 | 168,499 employees | Individual + firm | - Integrated Database for Labour Market Research (IDA)
- Danish Labour Force Survey (DLFS/AKU) linked on person identifier
- Organizational hierarchy codes (occupation-based) from registers
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Humlum and Plato (2026) Reskilling and Resilience | AER: Insights (forthcoming) | 1995–2017 (work accidents 1998–2017) | 2,915 injury events (male craft workers); 2,103 stable partners | Individual | - Work accident reports from Labour Market Insurance (AES)
- Education Register (UDDA)
- Integrated Database for Labour Market Research (IDA)
- National Patient Registry (hospitalizations)
- Health Insurance Registry (primary care and specialist visits)
- Prescription Drug Database
- Population register (BEF) for partner linkages
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Caplin et al. (2026) Subjective Earnings Risk | Review of Economic Studies | Survey January 2021; administrative data through 2022 | 10,942 employed respondents (gross sample 14,683 respondents aged 20–65) | Individual | - Copenhagen Life Panel (CLP) survey, January 2021 wave, linked on CPR number
- Income-tax register earnings (IND)
- Monthly employer-employee match and earnings data (BFL/eIndkomst)
- Demographic, education, household composition and household wealth registers
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Andersen et al. (2026) Disaggregated Economic Accounts | Quarterly Journal of Economics | 2018 (consumer spending 2018–2019) | approx. 2,700 consumer cells and approx. 2,600 producer cells; around 43 million entries | Individual + firm | - Danske Bank geo-coded transaction-level data (about 20% of Danish adult consumers), 2018–2019
- Government tax and income registers (labour compensation, mixed income, interest, dividends, transfers)
- Employment registers linking adults to industry of main employment and region
- Danish national accounts (SNA positions, input-output tables), 2018
- CrediWire producer-to-producer transactions (about 5 million)
- Firm-level export and import data for manufacturing firms
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Taubinsky et al. (2026) Beliefs About the Economy Are Excessively Sensitive to Household-Level Shocks: Evidence from Linked Survey and Administrative Data | Quarterly Journal of Economics | 2012–2019 (robustness from 2008; population registers from 1991) | 35050 usable responses (from 55171 survey respondents aged 25–60) | Individual | - Danish Consumer Expectations Survey (Statistics Denmark Omnibus), linked on CPR
- Tax registers from SKAT: income, liquid assets, net wealth, taxes (IND, formue)
- Civil Registration System / Population register (CPR/BEF)
- Education register (UDDA)
- National Patient Register (LPR), emergency room visits 1994–2018
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Heinesen et al. (2026) Instrumental Variables with Unordered Treatments: Theory and Evidence from Returns to Fields of Study | Journal of Labor Economics | Applications 1994–2002 (Denmark), outcomes eight years after application | – | Individual | - Danish administrative data on all applications to post-secondary education 1994–2002 (coordinated admission system)
- Population register and other registers (background, completed field of study, annual earnings)
- Norwegian post-secondary application data 1998–2004 linked to registers (comparison country)
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Almar et al. (2026) Educational Ambition, Marital Sorting, and Inequality | Journal of Labor Economics | 1980–2018 | on average 3,031,511 individuals per year aged 19–60; 1,800,866 individuals in couples per year | Individual | - Population register with partner links (BEF)
- Education register with four-digit ISCED programme codes (UDDA)
- Employment register with hourly wages (IDAN)
- Income register (IND)
- Danish Labour Force Survey (LFS/AKU), 2000–2018
- Employment register for hours, part-time/full-time (RAS)
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Fadlon et al. (2026) Survivors' Mental Health and the Protective Role of Income Stability | AER: Insights | 1995–2018 | 12,637 treatment and 15,212 control households | Individual | - Population Registry (BEF) with family linkages
- Death Registry
- National Patient Registry (LPR)
- Income Registry (earnings, transfers, pension payouts, capital income)
- Education Registry
- Pharmaceutical Database / prescription register (LMDB)
- Health Insurance Registry (psychiatrist visits)
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Baker et al. (2026) Universal Investments in Toddler Health: Learning from a Large Government Trial | Economic Journal | Births 1959–1967 (trial covered births January 1959–April 1968); register outcomes 1977–2020 | 87,336 individuals | Individual | - Transcribed handwritten Copenhagen nurse records (Copenhagen City Archives), 1959–1967 cohorts
- Central Person Register (CPR) linkage
- Education registers (UDDA)
- Income registers (IND)
- Death register
- National Patient Register (LPR)
- Copenhagen Perinatal Cohort (CPC), births 1959–1961
- Family links to parents, siblings, children and spouses
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Jakobsen et al. (2026) Fertility and Family Labor Supply | American Economic Review (forthcoming) | 2004–2018 (tax sample 2004–2018; estimation sample 2010–2018) | 10,851,444 individual-year observations (estimation sample); 2,531,181 (tax sample) | Individual | - Monthly payroll records (BFL/eIndkomst)
- Annual income tax data (IND)
- Population and family register (BEF), family definitions and parent links
- Education register (UDDA)
- Labour market experience from ATP payments
- Parental leave spell register (OF)
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Hasager and Jørgensen (2026) Sick of Your Poor Neighborhood? Quasi-Experimental Evidence on Neighborhood Effects on Health | Journal of Public Economics | 1985–2017 (refugees arriving 1986–1998) | 21,965 refugees | Individual | - National Patient Register (LPR)
- Health Insurance Register (SYSI, SSSY)
- Integrated Database for Labour Market Research (IDA)
- Income register (IND)
- Population register (BEF) and address/mobility registers (BEFBOP, BEFADR)
- Migration register (VNDS)
- Criminal convictions register (KRAF)
- O*NET occupational data merged via occupation codes
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Jensen and Zhang (2026) Effects of Parental Death on Labor Market Outcomes | American Economic Review | 1980–2019 (parental deaths 1985–2014) | Treated: 21919 daughters and 24354 sons whose mother died first; 74991 daughters and 85022 sons whose father died first (plus matched controls) | Individual | - Cause of death registers (DODSAARS/DODSAARG)
- Population register with parent-child links (BEF)
- Income and labour market registers (IND, AKM, IDAS/IDAN/IDAP), ATP-based hours proxy
- Health Insurance Register for GP/psychologist/psychiatrist visits (SYSI/SSSY)
- National Patient Register (LPR_ADM/LPR_DIAG)
- Psychiatric Central Research Register (PSYK_ADM/PSYK_DIAG)
- Prescription register (LMDB)
- Childcare registers (DAGI/BOERNFB)
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Daysal et al. (2026) Germs in the Family: The Short- and Long-Term Consequences of Intrahousehold Disease Spread | American Economic Review | Children born 1981–2017; outcomes 1980–2019 | 1,230,180 children | Individual | - National Patient Register (LPR)
- Medical Birth Register (MFR)
- Population register (BEF)
- Register-Based Labour Force Statistics (RAS)
- Income Statistics Register (IND)
- Education Register (UDDA)
- Academic Achievement Register (9th grade test scores)
- Psychiatric Central Research Register (PCRR)
- Health Insurance Register (Sygesikringsregisteret)
- Childcare enrollment data
- National Child Database (breastfeeding)
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Johannesen et al. (2026) Taxing the Wealth of the Poor: Evidence from the Danish Old-Age Support Asset Test | AER: Insights | 2014–2018 (main cross-section); bank data 2014–2016 | 2,526,421 observations of singles aged 60+ (2,054,987 aged 65+; 1,283,721 low-income 65+), pooled 2014–2018; bank sample 461,471 observations, 2014–2016 | Individual | - Administrative registers on assets, income and demographics (Statistics Denmark): third-party reported and self-reported liquid wealth
- Danske Bank customer data: monthly spending, cash withdrawals and account balances (2014–2016)
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Sander (2026) Universal Daycare and Mothers' Working Lifetime | Economic Journal | First births 1964–1975; earnings 1980–2015 | 370,602 mothers | Individual | - 1970 Census (FT70) with parish of residence
- Historical daycare institution yearbooks digitised (1964–1975) and daycare institutions in registers from 1976
- Population register with parent-child links and fertility histories (BEF)
- Earnings from tax records (income registers), 1980–2015
- Supplementary Pension Fund register (ATP) contributions for hours and participation
- Education registers (UDDA)
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Altmann et al. (2026) The Direct and Indirect Effects of Online Job Search Advice | Review of Economic Studies | Intervention from March 17, 2019; outcomes over the following 12 months (before March 2020) | 92,098 individuals | Individual | - Field experiment on jobnet.dk (Danish public employment service platform): treatment assignment and dashboard exposure
- Jobnet job search profiles, vacancy information and registered job applications (with occupation codes)
- Statistics Denmark register data on employment, hours and earnings (12 months after start)
- Population registers and benefit payment records (UI recipients)
- Register data on the universe of unemployment-to-job occupational transitions (to build recommendations)
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Andersen et al. (2026) Breaking Bad: How Health Shocks Prompt Crime | AEJ: Applied Economics | – | – | Individual | - Danish administrative registers on cancer diagnoses (timing of diagnosis)
- Crime registers (first crimes and re-offenses)
- Income and welfare program registers
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He and Maire (2025) Managing Inequality: Manager-Specific Wage Premiums and Selection in the Managerial Labor Market | Review of Economics and Statistics | 1995–2011 (per 2019 working-paper slides) | – | Individual + firm | - Matched employer-employee data covering all Danish workers and firms (IDA)
- Occupation codes used to identify managers
- Firm balance sheet data for private-sector firms (FIRE)
- Mergers and acquisitions identified from firm and establishment identifiers
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Humlum et al. (2025) Changing Tracks: Human Capital Investment after Loss of Ability | American Economic Review | 1995–2017 (work injury claims 1998–2017) | 14,481 injury events (14,369 distinct individuals); 4,568 events (4,528 individuals) for workers with vocational degrees with access to higher education | Individual | - Industrial Injury Register (Arbejdsskaderegisteret) / workers' compensation claims from AES
- National Patient Register (LPR)
- Health Insurance Register (Sygesikringsregisteret)
- Prescription Drug Database (LMDB)
- Education Register (UDDA)
- Course Participant Register (VEUV)
- Danish Register for Evaluation of Marginalization (DREAM)
- Integrated Database for Labour Market Research (IDA), linked to O*NET
- Population register (BEF/POP)
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Hansen et al. (2025) Depressed Peers in Early Parenthood | Review of Economics and Statistics | 2012–2017 (health visitor records) | – | Individual | - Municipal health visitor records with mothers' group assignments and EPDS postpartum depression screening
- Statistics Denmark registers: GP consultations, psychologist/psychiatrist appointments, hospital contacts for mental illness, sick leave
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Serena (2025) The Causal Effect of Scaling up Access to Psychotherapy | Review of Economics and Statistics | 1995–2019 (published abstract; the 2021 CEBI working paper uses 2000–2016) | – | Individual | - National Patient Register (LPR), psychiatric and somatic hospital contacts
- National Health Insurance Service Register (Sygesikringsregistret), primary care and psychologist services
- Prescription drug purchases (psychiatric drugs)
- DREAM register (employment, sick leave, disability pension)
- Yearly socioeconomic registers (population, income, education)
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Hummels et al. (2025) No Pain, No Gain: Work Demand, Work Effort, and Worker Health | Review of Economics and Statistics | 1995–2012 (health data 1996–2012; monthly payroll data 2008–2012) | 3,336,244 annual worker-year observations; 8,834,846 monthly observations | Individual + firm | - Firm Statistics Register (FIRM)
- Integrated Database for Labour Market Research (IDA)
- Firm-worker link (FIDA)
- Accounts Statistics (Regnskabsstatistik)
- Prodcom firm sales by product (VARS)
- Health care registers: prescription drug purchases, doctor visits and hospitalizations (National Patient Register)
- Monthly payroll records with earnings and hours (eIndkomst/BFL)
- Monthly firm VAT sales and material purchases (FIKS)
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Kleven et al. (2025) Micro versus Macro Labor Supply Elasticities: The Role of Dynamic Returns to Effort | American Economic Review | 1980–2018 | N = 2,501,126 and 2,428,411 in the main elasticity regressions (Table 1) | Individual | - Linked administrative registers on earnings, occupation (DISCO), firm and demographics, full population
- Employer-employee matched data (firm x occupation job cells)
- ATP pension contribution-based hours measure (1980–2018)
- Monthly uncapped hours measure (from 2008)
- Income tax records (2009 tax reform variation)
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Kristiansen and Sheng (2025) The Physician-Patient Match and Health Inequality | Review of Economics and Statistics | 1995–2019 (clinic closures 1999–2016) | over 352,000 adult patients affected by 894 clinic closures; 1,019,005 observations in the main mortality regression | Individual | - National Health Service Register: patient-to-GP clinic assignment
- Service Provider Registry (physician IDs)
- Cause of Death Register
- National Health Insurance Service Registry: visits, services, reimbursements
- Hospital/patient data and first-line treatments for chronic conditions
- Education registers and parent links (BEF/UDDA) for patient SES and physicians' parental education
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Arendt et al. (2025) Permanent Residency and Refugee Immigrants' Skill Investment | Journal of Labor Economics | Residency cohorts 2003–2004, followed seven years since temporary residency (to 2011) | 767 unique individuals; 5,122 person-year observations | Individual | - Population, income, education and immigration registers linked via the Central Person Registry
- Danish language test results
- Employment in annual full-time equivalents (register data)
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Buus et al. (2025) Do Export Support Programs Affect Prices, Quality, Markups, and Marginal Costs? Evidence From a Natural Policy Experiment | Review of Economics and Statistics | 2002–2015 | 18,181 firm-years (manufacturing exporters in Prodcom data, 77 destinations) | Firm | - Trade Council export promotion records: firm purchases and Trade Council approaches by destination
- International Trade in Goods statistics: Intrastat and Extrastat firm exports by CN8 product and destination (UHDI)
- Manufacturers' Sales of Goods (VARES/Prodcom): firm sales by product, value and quantity
- Firm Statistics Register (FirmStat) and Firm Accounts Statistics (FIRE)
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Simonsen and Skipper (2025) Healthy at Work? Evidence from a Social Experimental Evaluation of a Firm-Based Wellness Program | AEJ: Economic Policy | Randomisation 2008; follow-up to 2020 (PCP visits and work outcomes), 2019 (prescriptions), 2018 (hospitalisations) | 7,541 workers (3,735 treatment, 3,806 control) in 314 work-units | Individual + firm | - Healthy-at-Work randomised experiment records (work-unit assignment, September 2008)
- Primary care physician consultation records (Statistics Denmark registers)
- Prescription drug purchase records
- Hospital contact / hospitalisation records
- Employment, sickness absence and turnover registers
- Socio-economic background registers
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Jensen and Manning (2025) Background Matters, but Not Whether Parents Are Immigrants: Outcomes of Children Born in Denmark | AEJ: Applied Economics | 1980–2017 | 396,417 children (Table 1 total); 362,460 with two Danish-born parents, 10,399 with two immigrant parents, 20,908 with one immigrant parent, 2,650 with a parent from Greenland/Faroe Islands | Individual | - Danish register data linking children to parents (Statistics Denmark, 1980–2017)
- Income and earnings registers (annual labour income incl. self-employment, transfers)
- Monthly employment register (hours, hourly wages, from 2008)
- Education registers (incl. survey-based registration of foreign education of immigrants)
- Criminal justice registers (convictions, prison sentences, dropped charges / not-guilty verdicts)
- Occupation codes (ISCO88)
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Houmark et al. (2025) Genetic and Socioeconomic Achievement Gaps in Elementary School | Economic Journal | Births 1994–2008; national tests from 2010 | 40,136 individuals with 87,917 reading test outcomes (24,062 psychiatric cases, 16,074 random controls); sibling sample 2,705 individuals | Individual | - iPSYCH2015 case-cohort genotype sample (neonatal blood spots from the Danish National Biobank)
- Danish national tests (reading and mathematics, grades 2–8)
- Population registers with parent-child links (BEF)
- Parental income registers (IND)
- Parental education registers (UDDA)
- Psychiatric diagnoses of parents (patient registers)
- School and neighbourhood identifiers
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Daysal et al. (2025) Do Medical Treatments Work for Work? Evidence from Breast Cancer Patients | AEJ: Economic Policy | 1990–2008 (diagnoses 1990–1998) | 2,823 observations (women) | Individual | - Danish Breast Cancer Cooperative Group (DBCG) clinical Breast Cancer Database
- Register of Causes of Death
- Register-Based Labour Force Statistics (RAS)
- Income Statistics Register
- DREAM weekly transfer register
- Population Register (BEF)
- Education Register
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Eshaghnia et al. (2025) The Impact of the Level and Timing of Parental Resources on Child Development and Intergenerational Mobility | Journal of Labor Economics | 1980–2019 | around 100,000 children and their families (105,953 individuals; 98,686 in the IGE log-log sample) | Individual | - Population register with family links (BEF)
- Education register (UDDA)
- Income, assets and transfers register (IND)
- Sentencing register (KRAF)
- Incarceration register (KRIN)
- Danish Household Expenditure Survey
- Danish Longitudinal Survey of Children (DALSC)
- 9th-grade national leaving exam scores
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Bjerre-Nielsen and Gandil (2024) Attendance Boundary Policies and the Limits to Combating School Segregation | AEJ: Economic Policy | – | – | Individual | - Register data on the universe of Danish children (Statistics Denmark)
- School attendance boundary data with boundary changes over time
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Brenøe et al. (2024) Is Parental Leave Costly for Firms and Coworkers? | Journal of Labor Economics | 2001–2013 (births 2003–2012) | 24,829 treatment events (births) and 162,151 control events covering 45,940 unique firms; 9,934 treatment events in 16,080 firms after trimming | Individual + firm | - Central Person Registry with parent-child links (CPR/BEF)
- Parental leave benefit payouts and employer leave reimbursements
- Central education register (UDDA)
- Integrated Database for Labour Market Research (IDA)
- Annual employer wage payment records (CON and RAS)
- Mandatory pension contributions for approximate hours (ATP)
- Value-added tax (VAT) firm sales and purchases data
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Hansen et al. (2024) Grades and Employer Learning | Journal of Labor Economics | Students enrolled on 1 August 2007 who graduated before 2011; earnings for the first five years after graduation | 3,813 students | Individual | - University student records (Aarhus University and University of Copenhagen) with grades before and after the 2007 recoding
- Administrative registers from Statistics Denmark (background, parental income and education, earnings)
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Andersen et al. (2024) Dynamic Spending Responses to Wealth Shocks: Evidence from Quasi Lotteries on the Stock Market | AER: Insights | 2009–2016 | around 13.5 million household-month observations comprising 390,000 distinct households | Individual | - Danske Bank customer records: transaction-level spending, securities portfolios and online logins (2009–2016)
- Population register (household identifiers, age)
- Tax register: income and banks' year-end account-level reports
- Employment register (employer links)
- Education register
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Dustmann et al. (2024) Refugee Benefit Cuts | AEJ: Economic Policy | Residency granted 2001–2003; outcomes up to 10 years after residency | 4,843 individuals | Individual | - Danish Immigration Service residence permit records
- Income register from tax authority records (earnings, transfers, taxes)
- Hourly wage and occupation data
- Labour market register (employment status)
- Population register (BEF)
- Crime registers: police and court records of charges and convictions
- Job openings data from Jobindex.dk
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Dustmann et al. (2024) Unintended Consequences of Welfare Cuts on Children and Adolescents | AEJ: Applied Economics | Residency granted January 2001–December 2003; income data through 2019 | 6,888 individuals (3,406 adults aged 18–45 with children and 3,482 children aged 0–18) | Individual | - Danish Immigration Service residence permit records
- Historical Migrations database
- Income register from tax authority records
- Register on Completed Education
- Daycare register
- 9th-grade exam grades, 6th-grade national language test scores and school well-being survey (Ministry of Education)
- Crime registers: police and court records
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García-Miralles and Leganza (2024) Public Pensions and Private Savings | AEJ: Economic Policy | 1985–2018 (annual); 2008–2017 (monthly) | 40,042 individuals (analysis sample); 12,020 individuals (RD estimation sample) | Individual | - Population registers (date of birth, demographics)
- Labour-market and income/asset registers (tax-reported bank and stock balances, property values, pension contributions)
- Monthly earnings register (eIncome / eIndkomst)
- Voluntary early retirement pension (VERP) contribution and benefit records
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García-Miralles and Leganza (2024) Joint Retirement of Couples: Evidence from Discontinuities in Denmark | Journal of Public Economics | 1986–2014 (age-based design 1991–2013; reform-based design 2008–2014) | 367,585 couples and 2,206,044 couple-year observations (age-based sample); 10,321 couples and 73,395 couple-year observations (reform-based sample) | Individual | - Danish administrative registers for the full population 1986–2014 (labour market outcomes, pension benefits, socio-demographics, family/couple links)
- Annual taxable earnings registers
- Monthly earnings records for all employees (eIndkomst/BFL) and monthly pension benefit records, from 2008
- Voluntary early retirement pension (VERP) contribution records
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Dahl et al. (2024) Understanding the Rise in Life Expectancy Inequality | Review of Economics and Statistics | 2001–2014 | – | Individual | - Population registers (BEF, FAIN): sex and age
- Income register (IND): household income net of universal transfers
- Death registers (DODAARS, DODAASG) with cause of death
- US mortality by income from Chetty et al. (2016), IRS tax data
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Bruze et al. (2024) The Long-Run Effects of Individual Debt Relief | Review of Economics and Statistics | Applications 1984–2003; register outcomes 1980–2019 | 46,571 individuals (final sample); 32,794 observations in the IV sample with 515 trustee identifiers | Individual | - Hand-collected debt relief announcements from the official gazette Statstidende (court records), 1984–2005
- Central Person Register (CPR) for linkage
- Income Tax Register: earned income, taxable assets and debt, real estate ownership
- Labour market status registers (employment status in November)
- Hourly wage measure from Statistics Denmark
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Foerster (2024) Untying the Knot: How Child Support and Alimony Affect Couples' Dynamic Decisions and Welfare | Review of Economic Studies | 1980–2013 | 322,732 couples (645,464 individuals) and 4,312,826 couple-year observations; DTUS 2,105 households | Individual | - Danish register data on income, labour force status and hours worked
- Marital histories and birth register (BEF/family links)
- Maintenance (child support and alimony) payment records and child residence after divorce
- Danish Time Use Survey 2001 (DTUS)
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Andersen et al. (2024) Spending Response to a Predictable Increase in Mortgage Repayments: Evidence from Expiring Interest-Only Loans | Review of Economics and Statistics | Mortgage registry 2009–2018; IO loans originated 2003–2007 expiring 2013–2017 | 46,025 household-year observations (baseline regressions); 8,813 households beginning amortization | Individual | - Mortgage registry: loan-level data on the universe of Danish mortgages reported by mortgage institutions to Danmarks Nationalbank (from 2009)
- Income and wealth registers (IND/FORMUE): household income, bank deposits, stocks, bonds, pensions, debts
- Population/household registers (BEF): family composition, residence
- Imputed household consumption from income and wealth registers
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Fluchtmann et al. (2024) The Gender Application Gap: Do Men and Women Apply for the Same Jobs? | AEJ: Economic Policy | September 2015–September 2017 | 105,879 individuals, 114,375 UI spells, 2,911,585 job applications | Individual | - Joblog job application records from the public employment service platform (Jobnet)
- Unemployment insurance payment records / DREAM event-history data
- Integrated Database for Labour Market Research (IDA)
- Employment Statistics for Employees, monthly earnings and hours (BFL)
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Fluchtmann et al. (2024) Unemployed Job Search across People and over Time: Evidence from Applied-For Jobs | Journal of Labor Economics | September 2015–September 2017 | 127,695 individuals (spells) and over 4 million applied-for jobs | Individual | - Joblog applied-for job records (Danish Agency for Labour Market and Recruitment)
- DREAM event-history register of public transfers
- Integrated Database for Labour Market Research (IDA)
- Employment statistics for employees with hours and earnings (BFL)
- Firm purchases data (FIKS)
- Auxiliary survey of UI recipients on application coverage
- O*NET Related Occupation Matrix
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Hasager (2024) Does Granting Refugee Status to Family-Reunified Women Improve Their Integration? | Journal of Public Economics | 2001–2019 (hours and earnings from 2008) | 1,349 adult women | Individual | - Admission register on immigrant status and residence permit application/approval dates (Danish Immigration Service data via Statistics Denmark)
- Labour market data from the Danish tax authorities (employment; hours and earnings from 2008)
- Police registers on victimisation and criminal convictions
- Hospital admissions data (National Patient Register) for assault injuries
- Central population register (BEF) for demographics, spouse links and divorce
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Jensen and Blundell (2024) Income Effects and Labour Supply: Evidence from a Child Benefits Reform | Journal of Public Economics | September 2008–December 2014 (monthly) | 28,968 treated women and 22,477 treated men | Individual | - Population register (BEF) for family composition, marital status and cohabitation
- Monthly payroll records with hours worked (BFL/eIndkomst)
- Child benefit payment records (BOBO/BOTI)
- Register OF (monthly demographics and parental leave status)
- Sterilisation consultations from the National Patient Register (LPRADM) and health insurance service registers (SYSI, SSSY)
- Annual income register (IND) for self-employment robustness
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Foged et al. (2024) Comparing the Effects of Policies for the Labor Market Integration of Refugees | Journal of Labor Economics | 1986–2008 refugee arrivals (outcomes followed up to 15 years; ALMP analysis January 2008–April 2019) | 56,192 adult refugees | Individual | - Admission Register (OPHG)
- Migration register (VNDS)
- Integrated Database for Labour Market Research (IDA)
- Income register (IND)
- Population register (BEF)
- Education register (UDDA)
- Family register (FAM)
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Foged et al. (2024) Language Training and Refugees' Integration | Review of Economics and Statistics | Admissions 1997–2000; followed until 2016 (children's outcomes until 2018) | 8,558 individuals; children sample of 9,730 | Individual | - Integrated Database for Labour Market Research (IDA)
- Income register (IND)
- Education enrollment and completion registers
- Crime register: charges and convictions
- Population register (BEF)
- Admission/residence permit register (OPHG)
- Migration register (VNDS) and internal mobility register (FLYT)
- Register for Labour Market Policy Measures (AMFORA)
- Danish language training database (Danskuddannelsesdatabasen)
- O*NET task intensities
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Bargain and Jonassen (2024) New Evidence on Welfare's Disincentive for the Youth Using Administrative Panel Data | Review of Economics and Statistics | 2000–2006 | – | Individual | - Danish administrative panel data on welfare benefit take-up, employment, earnings and crime (registers not named in abstract)
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Altındağ et al. (2024) Public Health Policy at Scale: Impact of a Government-Sponsored Information Campaign on Infant Mortality in Denmark | Review of Economics and Statistics | Live births 1973–2006 | 568,106 births (SIDS outcome, MSE-optimal bandwidth of 52 months); 632,449 births for infant mortality (58 months) | Individual | - Medical Birth Register (MFR): birth weight, gestational age, parity, maternal age, immigrant status
- Register of Causes of Death (exact date and cause of death)
- Education register (parental education)
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Lundborg et al. (2024) On the Family Origins of Human Capital Formation: Evidence from Donor Children | Review of Economic Studies | IVF treatments 1994–2007; demographics 1991–2016; labour market 1991–2012; tests from 2010 | 19,509 non-donor IVF children, 820 sperm donor children and 157 egg donor children (97 matched to egg donors) | Individual | - Danish IVF register (Danish Health Data Authority)
- Danish Education Register (UDDA)
- National test scores in reading and math (from 2010)
- Administrative registers on demographics and labour market (birth year, gender, marital status, children, earnings)
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Jørgensen and Søgaard (2024) The Division of Parental Leave: Empirical Evidence and Policy Design | Journal of Public Economics | Births 2008–2015 | 189,974 births | Individual | - Parental leave benefit spell data (parents of children born 2008–2015), incl. benefits paid to parent or employer
- Monthly earnings records for all employees (BFL/eIndkomst), from 2008
- Danish administrative registers on demographics, family links and firm links (population and labour market registers)
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Renkin and Züllig (2024) Credit Supply Shocks and Prices: Evidence from Danish Firms | AEJ: Macroeconomics | 2005–2010 | 1,753 firms (213 linked to the PPI survey, 1,176 to export data) | Firm | - Bank account-level loan and deposit reports to the Danish Tax Authority (firm part)
- Bank balance sheets from the Danish FSA (Finanstilsynet) and Danmarks Nationalbank monetary and financial statistics
- Producer Price Index survey microdata
- Customs export data for export unit values
- Firm register
- Accounting statistics (regnskabsstatistik) and VAT sales data
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Akcigit et al. (2024) Tapping into Talent: Coupling Education and Innovation Policies for Economic Growth | Review of Economic Studies | 2001–2013 (background data from 1980) | approximately 32 million employer-employee observations, 10,000 inventors and 37,000 unique PhDs; approximately 500,000 males with IQ data | Individual | - Integrated Database for Labour Market Research (IDA)
- Firm-linked IDA (FIDA)
- PhD enrolment register (PHD)
- Military conscription IQ test (Boerge Prien Proeve)
- European Patent Office patents linked to IDA
- R&D funding data (Innovation Danmark) and Ministry of Education PhD policy data
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Andersen et al. (2023) How Do Households Respond to Job Loss? Lessons from Multiple High-Frequency Datasets | AEJ: Applied Economics | January 2009–December 2016 (job losses July 2010–December 2015) | 10,002 individuals (baseline sample of active bank customers); gross sample of 66,844 job losers | Individual | - Danske Bank customer transaction and account records (spending, income inflows, balances, loans)
- Monthly payroll and income transfer records (BFL/eIndkomst) from the Danish Tax Agency
- Population register (BEF) household structure and spouse links
- End-of-year account-level bank loan and deposit records from the Danish Tax Agency
- Loan-level mortgage data from mortgage banks (via Statistics Denmark)
- Mass layoff notifications to the Danish Agency for Labour Market and Recruitment
- Annual income and wealth, education, home ownership and occupation registers
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Dustmann et al. (2023) Neighbourhood Gangs, Crime Spillovers and Teenage Motherhood | Economic Journal | Refugee assignment 1986–1998; population registers 1980–2019 | 8,172 assigned refugee children; 3,792 girls in teenage motherhood estimation sample | Individual | - Immigration register
- Annual population registers (BEF)
- Central Police Register (criminal charges and convictions)
- Education registers (including survey-based register of immigrants' education)
- Income registers and register-based labour force statistics (RAS)
- National Patient Register (abortions)
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Crawley and Kuchler (2023) Consumption Heterogeneity: Micro Drivers and Macro Implications | AEJ: Macroeconomics | 2003–2015 | 7.7 million observations from 2004 to 2015 | Individual | - Tax-authority income records (household after-tax and transfer income)
- Tax-reported wealth data: bank deposits, loans, bond and stock holdings, mortgages (year-end balances)
- Private pension contribution records
- Civil Registration System (CPR) family/household links
- Mortgage reset data (amount resetting over the following year)
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Essen and Smith (2023) Network Connections and Board Seats: Are Female Networks Less Valuable? | Journal of Labor Economics | 1995–2011 | – | Individual + firm | - Matched employer-employee data for the Danish labour market
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Sigaard (2023) Estimating Labor Supply Responses to Danish Tax Reforms | Journal of Public Economics | 2002–2016 | 10,755,733 observations | Individual | - Wage Statistics Register (Lønstatistikken, LON) for performed hours of work
- Integrated Database for Labour Market Research (IDAN) for workplace controls
- Income registers (IND, INDK, INPI) for marginal tax rate simulation
- Population register (BEF) and family income register (FAIN)
- Family register (FAMILIE)
- Education register (UDDA)
- Danish tax simulation programs (Kleven and Schultz 2014, extended by the Ministry of Finance)
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Hvidberg et al. (2023) Social Positions and Fairness Views on Inequality | Review of Economic Studies | Survey 2019 (income for 2017); register income histories | 9,415 respondents (from 50,100 invited) | Individual | - Custom online survey with randomised information treatment (February–March 2019), sent via Digital Post and linked on CPR
- Income registers / tax returns (IND) for respondents and all reference group members
- Population register (BEF) for cohort, municipality, neighbours and siblings
- Education register (UDDA) incl. school attended at age 15 for schoolmates
- Workplace links from employer-employee data (IDA) for co-workers and sector
- Parents' income positions via family links
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Foged et al. (2023) Intergenerational Spillover Effects of Language Training for Refugees | Journal of Public Economics | Children born 1990–2001, followed up to 2019; parental outcomes 1999–2016 | 6,467 children; 5,197 adult parents | Individual | - Danish administrative registers from Statistics Denmark on refugees' asylum/admission dates and parent–child links
- Lower secondary school completion and final exam records
- Criminal conviction records (property, violent, narcotics crime)
- Earnings, occupation (ISCO), disposable income, marriage and fertility registers for parents
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Lentz et al. (2023) The Anatomy of Sorting: Evidence from Danish Data | Econometrica | 1985–2013 (analysis panel starts 1987) | – | Individual + firm | - Matched employer-employee register data (IDA) with annual wages
- Weekly labour market spell/mobility data built from Statistics Denmark registers
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Cairo and Mahlstedt (2023) The Disparate Effects of Information Provision: A Field Experiment on the Work Incentives of Social Welfare | Journal of Public Economics | Intervention from 15 August 2018 with up to five monthly reminders | 47,294 individuals | Individual | - Field experiment assignment and messaging data (Danish public employment service, jobnet.dk online tool)
- Population registers (socio-demographic background)
- Benefit payment records (DREAM)
- Monthly income and employment records (eIndkomst/BFL)
- Public employment service data on sanctions, exemptions, collected working hours, click data and registered job applications
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Friedrich (2022) Trade Shocks, Firm Hierarchies, and Wage Inequality | Review of Economics and Statistics | 1999–2008 | 68,090 firm-year observations on 12,470 firms (within-firm inequality regressions) | Individual + firm | - Integrated Database for Labour Market Research (IDA) with DISCO occupation codes
- Firm-Integrated Database for Labour Market Research (FIDA)
- Danish Business Register / firm statistics (GF): sales, value added, industry
- Foreign Trade Statistics Register: firm-level exports by CN8 product and destination (UHDI)
- UN Comtrade bilateral trade flows (HS6)
- U.S. Imports of Merchandise, Penn World Tables distances, Brent oil prices (transport cost estimation)
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Labanca and Pozzoli (2022) Constraints on Hours within the Firm | Journal of Labor Economics | 2003–2011 | more than 400,000 employees and approximately 8,300 firms (787,683 individual-year observations) | Individual + firm | - Integrated Database for Labour Market Research (IDA)
- Wage statistics with annual regular and overtime hours (Lønstatistikken, LON)
- Firm Statistics Register (Firmstat)
- Danish Foreign Trade Statistics Register
- Firm-Integrated Database for Labour Market Research (FIDA)
- Danish Tax Register (income tax records)
- O*NET occupational data
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Druedahl and Martinello (2022) Long-Run Saving Dynamics: Evidence from Unexpected Inheritances | Review of Economics and Statistics | 1995–2012 | 6,286 heirs | Individual | - Wealth data from yearly third-party financial institution reports in the income/wealth registers (IND/FORMUE: BANKAKT, KURSANP, etc.)
- Individual tax returns / Income register (IND) for disposable income
- Housing and land registers (property values, number of housing units)
- Birth registers / parent-child links (BEF)
- Mortality register / Register of Causes of Death (ICD-10 cause of death)
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Jakobsen and Søgaard (2022) Identifying Behavioral Responses to Tax Reforms: New Insights and a New Approach | Journal of Public Economics | Data since 1980; main analyses 1999–2012 (2004 reform: 1999–2003 pre-period, 2003–2007 reform period; 2009–10 reform: 2004–2008 pre-period, 2008–2012 reform period); 1987 and 1994 reforms in appendix | over 2,000,000 individuals per period (2,240,332 and 2,295,922 for the 2004 reform pre-reform and reform periods; 2,097,862 and 2,240,833 for the 2009–10 reform) | Individual | - Danish administrative registers for the full population since 1980 (labour market history, education, earnings, demographics)
- Third-party reported income tax records
- Simulated marginal tax rates from an extended Danish tax simulator (Kleven and Schultz 2014 model)
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Gillingham et al. (2022) Equilibrium Trade in Automobiles | Journal of Political Economy | 1996–2008 (estimation 1997–2008) | nearly 39 million observations on car ownership transitions | Individual | - Car ownership register covering all privately owned cars (Statistics Denmark extract)
- Odometer readings from mandatory vehicle inspections (driving)
- Demographic and income registers for all Danish households
- Tax deduction for commuting distance (work distance)
- Fuel prices from eof.dk
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Daysal et al. (2022) Spillover Effects of Early-Life Medical Interventions | Review of Economics and Statistics | Focal children born 1982–1993; test scores 2001–2010 | 5,827 sibling observations (siblings of 3,677 focal children) | Individual | - Medical Birth Register (MFR): birth weight, gestational age, parity
- Parent and sibling links (BEF)
- 9th-grade exam test score register (reading and math)
- Education/enrollment registers
- Prescription drug register (antidepressant use, from 1995)
- Health registers for diagnoses (intellectual disability, ADHD) and mortality
- Income and labour market registers for parents
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Andersen et al. (2022) Reference Dependence in the Housing Market | American Economic Review | 2009–2016 (transactions from 1992) | 214,103 listings (191,507 unique households, 178,933 unique properties); housing stock of 5,538,052 observations of 807,345 properties | Individual | - Property ownership and transaction register from SKAT and the Building and Housing Register (BBR), 1992–2016
- Tax-assessed property values (SKAT)
- Property listings data from RealView, 2008–2016
- Loan-level mortgage data from Danmarks Nationalbank, 2009–2016
- Civil Registration System (CPR/BEF) for demographics and household links
- Income and wealth records from SKAT (IND/formue)
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Keller and Utar (2022) Globalization, Gender, and the Family | Review of Economic Studies | 1999–2007 | about 1,600,000 workers; about 10,000 textile and clothing workers | Individual + firm | - Integrated Database for Labour Market Research (IDA)
- Central Population Register (CPR/BEF) for births, marriages, divorces and cohabitation
- Domestic production database by 10-digit product (Industrial commodity statistics, VARS) to identify firms making quota goods
- Industry-level imports from China and other advanced countries (instrument)
- Parental leave records
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Anker et al. (2021) The Effects of DNA Databases on the Deterrence and Detection of Offenders | AEJ: Applied Economics | Charges June 2003–September 2007 (excluding June–September 2005), with follow-up outcomes | 38,674 individuals with 66,911 charge observations | Individual | - Central Charge Register (crime date, charge date, crime type)
- Danish Central DNA Database person-specific section (DNA registration records)
- Conviction records (crime registers)
- Full-population registers on demographics, labour market and family links
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Friedrich and Hackmann (2021) The Returns to Nursing: Evidence from a Parental-Leave Program | Review of Economic Studies | 1990–2000 | – | Individual + firm | - Integrated Database for Labour Market Research (IDA) for health workers, plants and industries
- Population register (BEF) for children's ages, residence and household characteristics
- Social benefits records of parental leave spells (from 1995)
- National Patient Register (LPR), inpatient hospitalisations 1990–2000
- Register of Causes of Death (DAR), 1991–2000
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Dustmann and Landersø (2021) Child's Gender, Young Fathers' Crime, and Spillover Effects in Criminal Behavior | Journal of Political Economy | Children born 1991–2004; crime data from 1990 | 2,803 first-time fathers aged 20 or younger; 101,132 male peers in 2,114 neighbourhoods | Individual | - Birth register (child's gender, parent links)
- Population register (BEF) for demographics and family links
- Central Police Register crime data (charges and convictions)
- Victim register (from 2001)
- Income, education and occupation registers
- Residential register with neighbourhood classification
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Kleven et al. (2021) Does Biology Drive Child Penalties? Evidence from Biological and Adoptive Families | AER: Insights | 1980–2017 | around 527,000 first births (biological sample) and around 4,600 first arrivals (adoptive sample) | Individual | - Statistics Denmark administrative registers covering the full population 1980–2017, linked with family identifiers
- Adoption registry of Statistics Denmark (1988–2009), augmented with foreign adoptions identified via country of origin and Central Person Register immigration records
- Earnings and labour-supply registers incl. hours from the ATP mandated pension scheme
- Education registers
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Fadlon and Nielsen (2021) Family Labor Supply Responses to Severe Health Shocks: Evidence from Danish Administrative Records | AEJ: Applied Economics | 1980–2011 (shocks 1985–2011) | 310,720 treated and 409,190 control households (fatal shocks); 37,437 treated and 54,887 control households (non-fatal heart attacks and strokes) | Individual | - Cause of Death Registry
- National Patient Registry (LPR) hospitalisation records with ICD diagnoses
- Income and transfer registers (earnings, government transfers, pension and annuity payouts, capital income), 1980–2011
- Third-party reported liquid wealth balances, 1984–2011
- Integrated Database for Labour Market Research (IDA), incl. ATP-based full-/part-time employment
- Household linkages of spouses and cohabiting partners (population registers)
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Bagger et al. (2021) Education, Birth Order and Family Size | Economic Journal | 1980–2006 (outcomes measured in 2006) | 1,256,031 children in 581,159 families (excluding single-child families) | Individual | - Integrated Database for Labour Market Research (IDA), 1980–2006, with mother-child links
- Precise date of birth from Statistics Denmark (to identify twin/multiple births)
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Gruber et al. (2021) Do People Respond to the Mortgage Interest Deduction? Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Denmark | AEJ: Economic Policy | 1980–2011 (main panel 1980–1996) | about 40 million individual-year observations; 34,440,869 observations in the main homeownership regression (below-top controls) | Individual | - Income tax records (incomes, taxes, deductible interest expenses)
- Housing register (homeownership, property characteristics, home size)
- Tax authority property value appraisals (for imputed rent and wealth tax)
- Population registers with spouse/cohabitant and child links
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Simonsen et al. (2021) Spot Price Biases in Non-Linear Health Insurance Contracts | Journal of Public Economics | – | – | Individual | - Population-wide individual data on prescription drug purchases and reimbursement under the Danish non-linear drug insurance scheme (registers not named in the abstract)
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Daysal et al. (2021) Home Prices, Fertility, and Early-Life Health Outcomes | Journal of Public Economics | 1992–2011 (fertility analysis 1995–2006) | 1,105,559 observations on 198,435 women (125,903 births) | Individual | - Medical Birth Register (MFR)
- National Patient Register (LPR)
- State's Sales and Valuation Registry (public property valuations and sales prices)
- Population register (BEF) and other registers for demographics, education, household income and partner status
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Bingley et al. (2021) Family, Community and Long-Term Socio-Economic Inequality: Evidence from Siblings and Youth Peers | Economic Journal | Men born 1960–1983; earnings 1984–2011 | 695,960 men; 10,930,859 earnings observations (122,652 brother pairs, 380,948 singletons) | Individual | - Civil registration system / population register with parent links (BEF)
- Central person register address histories (parish of residence)
- Education register / national pupil database (school at age 15)
- Annual earnings from tax-based income registers
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Black et al. (2021) Sibling Spillovers | Economic Journal | Danish births 1990–2001; Florida births 1994–2002 | Denmark: 134,277 families with first two children observed, 28,581 families with first three children (4,430 with a disabled third child by age five); Florida: 80,879 and 9,987 families | Individual | - Medical Birth Register (MFR)
- National Patient Register (LPR) for disability diagnoses
- 9th grade exit exam grades (school/education registers)
- Parental education, labour market, earnings and leave registers
- Florida birth records linked to Florida public school records (FCAT)
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Andersen et al. (2021) Gender Differences in Negotiation: Evidence from Real Estate Transactions | Economic Journal | 1994–2013 | 337,685 real estate transactions (97,216 in repeated-sales sample; 13,953 inherited houses and apartments in death-sales sample) | Individual | - Property transactions from the Danish Tax and Customs Administration (SKAT)
- Housing register (BBR)
- Civil Registration System (CPR)
- Income and tax-assessed property values from SKAT
- Education registers (Ministry of Education)
- Integrated Database for Labour Market Research (IDA) employment status
- Cause-of-Death Register (Danish National Board of Health)
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Olney and Pozzoli (2021) The Impact of Immigration on Firm-Level Offshoring | Review of Economics and Statistics | 1995–2011 | approximately 35,000 firms and 1 million workers | Individual + firm | - Firm Statistics Register (FirmStat)
- Integrated Database for Labour Market Research (IDA)
- Firm-Integrated Database for Labour Market Research (FIDA)
- Foreign Trade Statistics Register: Intrastat and Extrastat firm-level imports (UHDI)
- Central Business Register (foreign ownership)
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Brenøe and Zölitz (2020) Exposure to More Female Peers Widens the Gender Gap in STEM Participation | Journal of Labor Economics | High school entry 1980–1994; outcomes followed up to 20 years after entry | 182,211 students in 127 schools (1,877 school-cohort observations) | Individual | - Student/education registers with high school, track and cohort identifiers (UDDA)
- Population register with parental links (BEF)
- Parental income and education registers (IND, UDDA)
- Earnings and employment registers
- Occupation codes (STEM occupations)
- Fertility from population/birth registers
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Taber and Vejlin (2020) Estimation of a Roy/Search/Compensating Differential Model of the Labor Market | Econometrica | 1985–2003 | 2,969,454 workers, 25,630,532 spells and 467,983 establishments (estimation sample) | Individual + firm | - Weekly labour market spell data built from Statistics Denmark registers (all individuals aged 15–74)
- Integrated Database for Labour Market Research (IDA) with hourly wage measure
- Danish Work Environment Cohort Study surveys (1995 and 2000) on reasons for job separation
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Kreiner et al. (2020) Do Lower Minimum Wages for Young Workers Raise Their Employment? Evidence from a Danish Discontinuity | Review of Economics and Statistics | January 2012–December 2015 | 577,795 individuals and around 14 million person-month observations | Individual | - Monthly payroll records from the tax agency SKAT (BFL/eIndkomst) with wages and hours
- Population register data at Statistics Denmark (age/birth date, parental background)
- School performance and job information from Statistics Denmark registers
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Kreiner et al. (2020) Financial Trouble Across Generations: Evidence from the Universe of Personal Loans in Denmark | Economic Journal | 2004–2011 | 28,027,610 parent-child-year observations on 2,501,088 individuals | Individual | - Loan register from the Danish Tax Agency (SKAT): all personal loan accounts with default status (60+ days late)
- Population register (BEF) for parent-child links
- Income-tax register and other administrative registers on labour market history, income and wealth
- Credit bureau bad-payer files (Experian, Debitor Registret), 2009 snapshot
- Survey of 1,748 individuals on risk willingness, patience and impulsivity (2014)
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Jakobsen et al. (2020) Wealth Taxation and Wealth Accumulation: Theory and Evidence from Denmark | Quarterly Journal of Economics | Wealth data since 1980; quasi-experimental panel 1985–1996 | 138,384 observations (ceiling DD) and 520,452 observations (couples DD, couples vs couples) | Individual | - Administrative wealth registry (third-party reported assets and debts, since 1980)
- Income registers and socio-economic registers (occupation, family composition)
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Rossin-Slater and Wüst (2020) What Is the Added Value of Preschool for Poor Children? Long-Term and Intergenerational Impacts and Interactions with an Infant Health Intervention | AEJ: Applied Economics | Cohorts born 1930–1957; outcomes 1980–2012; children born 1955–1987 | 1,640,214 observations (Danish-born with valid parish codes); 880,708 observations in municipalities with an approved preschool by 1960, collapsed to 3,862 municipality × birth-year cells | Individual | - Archival data on all approved Danish preschools 1933–1960 (establishment and approval year, slots)
- Nurse Home Visiting program implementation dates by municipality
- Statistical Commune Data Archive (elections and censuses) for municipality controls
- Municipal live births and infant deaths
- DigDag historical administrative geography (parish-municipality mapping)
- Administrative population register data 1980–2012 (education, earnings, survival, hospital admissions, diagnoses)
- Mother-child links (Danish Civil Registration System)
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Agersnap et al. (2020) The Welfare Magnet Hypothesis: Evidence from an Immigrant Welfare Scheme in Denmark | AER: Insights | 1980–2017 | 444 group-year observations (12 welfare benefit groups) | Individual | - Danish administrative registers on the full population 1980–2017 (immigrant status, country of origin, demographics, family links)
- Residence permit data by permit type (asylum, family, work/study; available from 1997)
- Central Person Register (CPR) migration records
- National statistics bureaus of other Nordic countries and OECD International Migration Database (1991–2017)
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Bingley et al. (2020) The Opportunity Costs of Mandatory Military Service: Evidence from a Draft Lottery | Journal of Labor Economics | Birth cohorts 1976–1983; earnings at ages 25–35 | 152,269 men without missing earnings (military register covers 155,570 fit-for-service conscripts) | Individual | - Danish Defence military register (Armed Forces Day draft records: IQ test, eligibility, height, lottery number)
- Earnings from employer reports to tax authorities (income registers)
- Education registers (UDDA)
- Central Crime Register
- National hospital discharge register (LPR)
- Medical Birth Register (MFR) birth weight
- Population register (BEF)
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Breining et al. (2020) Birth Order and Delinquency: Evidence from Denmark and Florida | Journal of Labor Economics | Danish birth cohorts 1981–1990; Florida births 1994–2002 | Denmark: 121,100 children in 60,550 families (first- and second-born boys); 448,979 singleton births 1981–1990 in the full Danish population | Individual | - Medical Birth Register (MFR)
- Population register with parent and sibling links (BEF)
- Central Crime Register (convictions, sentences, incarceration)
- School registers (9th grade exit exam grades)
- Register of Daycare Institutions
- National Patient Register (LPR) and Psychiatric Central Register
- Parental education, employment, earnings and maternity leave registers
- Florida birth records linked to school and juvenile justice records
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Andersen et al. (2020) Sources of Inaction in Household Finance: Evidence from the Danish Mortgage Market | American Economic Review | 2009–2017 | 2,376,815 household observations (9,351,183 household-quarters); 378,421 refinancings | Individual | - Loan-level mortgage data for all Danish mortgages from Danmarks Nationalbank (via mortgage bank associations)
- Civil Registration System / population register (CPR/BEF) for demographics and household links
- Income and wealth data from the Danish Tax Authority (SKAT) (IND/formue)
- Education register (UDDA)
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Epper et al. (2020) Time Discounting and Wealth Inequality | American Economic Review | Experiment in 2015; register data 1980–2015 (wealth ranks tracked 2001–2015) | 3,620 experiment participants (of 27,613 invited); 2,548 survey subjects in the 1952–1955 cohorts | Individual | - Incentivised online convex time budget experiment (February 2015) linked on CPR
- Income and wealth registers based on third-party reports (1980–2015)
- Population register (BEF) for sampling and demographics
- Education and family registers
- Survey of time discounting for the 1952–1955 cohorts at ages 18–21
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Alstadsæter et al. (2019) Tax Evasion and Inequality | American Economic Review | HSBC leak 2006–2007; amnesties since 2006; Danish random audits for tax years 2008, 2010, 2012 | 520 HSBC households; 165 Panama Papers households; 1,422 amnesty taxpayers in Norway and 6,811 in Sweden; 18,985 randomly audited Danish taxpayers | Individual | - Leaked HSBC Switzerland client list (Swiss Leaks, 2007) matched to tax records in Denmark, Norway and Sweden
- Panama Papers / Mossack Fonseca leak matched to Norwegian and Swedish wealth data (not Denmark)
- Tax amnesty voluntary disclosures in Norway and Sweden
- Population-wide administrative wealth and income tax records for Norway, Sweden and Denmark
- Danish stratified random tax audits by SKAT (tax years 2008, 2010, 2012)
- National accounts household wealth totals
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Dustmann et al. (2019) Refugee Migration and Electoral Outcomes | Review of Economic Studies | Refugee allocation 1986–1998; parliamentary elections 1990–98 and municipal elections 1989–97 | 275 municipalities (550 observations for parliamentary elections); 76,673 refugees allocated 1986–98 | Individual | - Population register (BEF) to identify refugees and municipality of initial placement
- Income, education, labour force and socio-economic registers for 1985 municipality characteristics
- Statistics Denmark municipal and parliamentary election results
- Danish National Election Survey (DNES) 1990–98
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Kreiner et al. (2019) Liquidity Constraint Tightness and Consumer Responses to Fiscal Stimulus Policy | AEJ: Economic Policy | 1998–2009 registers; account-level data 2007–2009; survey January 2010 | 5,037 completed interviews with respondents who took out the SP balance | Individual | - Telephone survey of SP account holders on spending of the 2009 SP payout (Epinion, January 2010)
- ATP register of Special Pension (SP) savings accounts (balances on 1 May 2009)
- Income tax register with incomes, assets and liabilities, 1998–2009
- Account-level deposit and loan records with interest payments from the Danish Tax Agency (SKAT), 2007–2009
- Demographic registers (Statistics Denmark)
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Giorgi et al. (2019) Consumption Network Effects | Review of Economic Studies | 1980–1996 | 757,439 households | Individual + firm | - Administrative income and wealth tax records (tax registry incl. wealth tax data)
- Integrated Database for Labour Market Research (IDA) for plant IDs and coworker networks
- Danish Expenditure Survey (DES) 1994–1996
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Kleven et al. (2019) Children and Gender Inequality: Evidence from Denmark | AEJ: Applied Economics | 1980–2013 (with data back to 1964 for intergenerational transmission); first births 1985–2003 | around 470,000 births or 15,040,000 individual-year observations | Individual | - Full-population Danish administrative registers linked by personal ID (earnings, labour supply, occupation, firm, education), 1980–2013
- Family and generational links (population register)
- ATP pension contributions as third-party measure of hours worked
- Additional administrative data back to 1964 for intergenerational analysis
- Matched employer-employee data (firm family-friendliness)
- International Social Survey Program (ISSP) 2002 for gender attitudes
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Fadlon and Nielsen (2019) Family Health Behaviors | American Economic Review | 1980–2011 (shocks between 1985 and 2011) | Non-fatal shocks, spouses: 20,381 treated and 28,699 control (prime age 25–55), 37,828 treated and 36,392 control (older 55–85); biological children: 63,323 treated and 68,437 control (25–40), 39,783 treated and 32,926 control (40–65) | Individual | - Prescription Drug Database (LMDB), 1995–2011
- Health Insurance Registry (SSR, primary-care and specialist contacts), 1985–2011
- National Patient Registry (LPR), inpatient 1980–2011 and outpatient 1994–2011
- Cause of Death Registry (DAR)
- Integrated Database for Labour Market Research (IDA) for demographics, education and coworker links
- Family links (spouses, parents–children) from population registers
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Søgaard (2019) Labor Supply and Optimization Frictions: Evidence from the Danish Student Labor Market | Journal of Public Economics | 2006–2011 (monthly earnings from 2008) | around 75,000 observations per year (core sample 75,500 individuals per year on average) | Individual | - Danish administrative registers for the full population (education, earnings, benefits, demographics)
- Annual income tax returns
- Monthly student benefit (SU) take-up records from the Student Benefit Administration
- Monthly payroll records of earnings and hours (BFL/eIndkomst), from 2008
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Bagger and Lentz (2019) An Empirical Model of Wage Dispersion with Sorting | Review of Economic Studies | 1994–2003 (spell data available 1985–2003) | 6,815,884 observations; 782,951 individuals; 1,698,990 job spells; 117,847 firms (NBER 2014 version) | Individual + firm | - Weekly labour market spell data from administrative registers (jobs reported to tax authorities, public transfers, mandatory pension contributions)
- Integrated Database for Labour Market Research (IDA): education, hourly wages and firm sector
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Bingley and Cappellari (2019) Correlation of Brothers' Earnings and Intergenerational Transmission | Review of Economics and Statistics | 1980–2014 | 303,231 men in 101,077 families; 5,488,445 earnings observations | Individual | - Civil registration system / population register with parent-child links (BEF)
- Income Statistics Register (IND): annual pre-tax labour earnings from tax returns
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Traiberman (2019) Occupations and Import Competition: Evidence from Denmark | American Economic Review | 1996–2007 worker panel (tenure built from 1990–1996); import competition 1995–2005 | 18,513,301 observations in sample frame (33,502,593 in raw data) | Individual + firm | - Integrated Database for Labour Market Research (IDA/IDAS) with ISCO occupation codes
- Firm and establishment statistics (FIRE, FIRM) for industry codes
- Customs trade data (UHDI)
- UN Comtrade (CEPII BACI), Danish national accounts, Danish CPI, LIBOR
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Frederiksen and Kato (2018) Human Capital and Career Success: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data | Economic Journal | 1992–2002 (appointments in 2000 and 2001) | 773,094 observations (3,813 appointed to top management) | Individual + firm | - Integrated Database for Labour Market Research (IDA) with DISCO occupation codes
- Education registers
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Utar (2018) Workers beneath the Floodgates: Low-Wage Import Competition and Workers' Adjustment | Review of Economics and Statistics | 1999–2010 | 10,521 workers | Individual + firm | - Integrated Database for Labour Market Research (IDA): person, establishment and job files
- Firm-Integrated Database for Labour Market Research (FIDA) employer-employee link
- Domestic manufacturing production database (VARES), CN 8-digit products
- EU SIGL database of MFA import quotas (European Commission)
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Munch and Schaur (2018) The Effect of Export Promotion on Firm-Level Performance | AEJ: Economic Policy | – | – | Firm | - Danish Trade Council data on export promotion services (self-selected vs. Council-approached firms)
- Danish firm-level performance data (sales, value added, employment); specific registers not stated in abstract
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Joensen and Nielsen (2018) Spillovers in Education Choice | Journal of Public Economics | High school entry cohorts 1984–1987 (older siblings) and 1988–1991 (younger siblings, main sample); register data from 1980 onwards | 7,786 sibling pairs (main closely spaced sample); 17,691 sibling pairs in the wider sample with age gap < 10 years | Individual | - Danish administrative registers on high school enrolment, course packages and completion (Statistics Denmark education registers)
- Parent and sibling links from population registers
- Parental education and income registers
- Earnings registers (younger siblings' earnings at ages 30–35)
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Rossin-Slater and Wüst (2018) Parental Responses to Child Support Obligations: Evidence from Administrative Data | Journal of Public Economics | 1998–2010 (separation years 1999–2008) | 73,303 fathers (71,575 unique mothers) | Individual | - Danish administrative registers on children born 1985–2008 linked to parents and siblings (population/family registers)
- Income and tax records including tax-deductible child support payments
- Labour market registers (employment, earnings, disability insurance, early retirement)
- Birth records (fertility through 2010)
- Education registers
- Danish Longitudinal Survey of Children (DALSC) and Children and Youth in Denmark (CYD) survey (descriptive, supplementary)
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Gautier et al. (2018) Estimating Equilibrium Effects of Job Search Assistance | Journal of Labor Economics | Benefit inflows November 2004–February 2005 (pre-experiment) and November 2005–February 2006 (experiment), followed up to two years; vacancies January 2004–November 2007 | 40,403 benefit claimants in experiment period (3,751 experiment participants: 1,814 treated, 1,937 controls); 49,063 in pre-experiment sample | Individual | - National Labour Market Board administrative data on unemployment benefit spells (all Danish counties)
- Randomised activation experiment assignment (Storstrøm and South Jutland, birth date 1st–15th of month)
- Income transfer data (exit destinations)
- National Labour Market Board monthly stock of open vacancies by county (from local job centres)
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Boserup et al. (2018) Born with a Silver Spoon? Danish Evidence on Wealth Inequality in Childhood | Economic Journal | 1983–2011 | Pooled cross-section: on average close to 650 thousand observations per one-year age group; panel regressions: 36,102 observations | Individual | - Individual wealth data from tax return records (Danish Tax Agency SKAT, via Statistics Denmark)
- Population register with parent identifiers (BEF)
- Education and income registers
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Hjort et al. (2017) Universal Investment in Infants and Long-Run Health: Evidence from Denmark's 1937 Home Visiting Program | AEJ: Applied Economics | Birth cohorts 1935–1949; outcomes 1980–2012 | 876,912 individuals, collapsed to 20,078 municipality × birth cohort × treatment-status cells | Individual | - Archival records of home visiting program implementation dates by municipality, 1937–1949 (Danish National Archives)
- Danish Commune Archive / Statistical Commune Data Archive (pre-1937 municipal characteristics from censuses and elections)
- Medical Reports for the Kingdom of Denmark (1936 infant mortality by medical district)
- Administrative population data with date and parish of birth (cohorts 1935–1949)
- Danish Inpatient Register / National Patient Register (LPR), 1980–2012
- Danish Death Register (cause of death), 1980–2012
- DigDag historical administrative geography
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Bingley and Martinello (2017) Measurement Error in Income and Schooling and the Bias of Linear Estimators | Journal of Labor Economics | – | – | Individual | - Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), Danish respondents
- Danish administrative income registers
- Danish administrative education registers
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Lundborg et al. (2017) Can Women Have Children and a Career? IV Evidence from IVF Treatments | American Economic Review | 1991–2009 (IVF treatments 1995–2005) | 18,538 treated women | Individual | - IVF register held by the Danish National Board of Health (all IVF treatments in public and private clinics, 1994–2005)
- Linked administrative registers on education, age, marital status and number of children
- Linked labour market registers: labour force status, hours worked, hourly wages, annual earnings, occupation, sector and firm
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Landersø et al. (2017) School Starting Age and the Crime-Age Profile | Economic Journal | Children born mid-1981 to mid-1993 | 48,546 and 50,383 children (the two gender groups) at age 15, born in December or January (Table 1) | Individual | - Population register with exact birth dates and parent links (BEF)
- Criminal charge register (charges for property, violence and other crimes, with dates)
- Birth records: birth weight, gestational length, APGAR score (likely Medical Birth Register, MFR; not named in paper)
- Education registers (age in 8th grade as proxy for school starting age)
- Parental education and labour market registers
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Jensen and Johannesen (2017) The Consumption Effects of the 2007–2008 Financial Crisis: Evidence from Households in Denmark | American Economic Review | 2003–2011 | around 440,000 individuals, almost 3.5 million individual-years and more than 5.7 million individual-account-years | Individual | - Tax authority third-party reports of all individuals' loan and deposit account balances, linked to bank identity via branch numbers (Nets lists)
- Bank balance sheet data from the Danish Central Bank (MFI statistics)
- Administrative registers on demographics, education, labour market and income
- Income and wealth registers (capital income, social transfers, stock portfolios, pension accounts)
- Motor vehicle register and real estate register
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Kreiner et al. (2016) Tax Reforms and Intertemporal Shifting of Wage Income: Evidence from Danish Monthly Payroll Records | AEJ: Economic Policy | January 2008–December 2011 (monthly) | 328,679 individuals, of which 219,179 in the treatment group; survey sample of 878 taxpayers | Individual + firm | - Monthly payroll records (eIndkomst / eIncome register) from the tax agency SKAT
- Background registers on individuals and firms at Statistics Denmark (incl. firm size, liquid assets)
- Telephone survey on awareness of income-shifting opportunity (January 2011), merged to eIncome register
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Fadlon et al. (2016) Do Employer Pension Contributions Reflect Employee Preferences? Evidence from a Retirement Savings Reform in Denmark | AEJ: Applied Economics | 1996–2001 | 2,020,705 worker-year observations; 84,764 workplace-year observations (26,775 unique workplaces) | Individual + firm | - Income tax register (incl. third-party reported pension contributions)
- Population register (BEF)
- Integrated Database for Labour Market Research (IDA)
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Joensen and Nielsen (2016) Mathematics and Gender: Heterogeneity in Causes and Consequences | Economic Journal | High school entrants 1984–1986, followed into the labour market | about 25,658 females and 19,406 males from about 140 high schools | Individual | - Education registers: detailed educational histories, high school branch choice and GPA (Statistics Denmark)
- Labour market registers: earnings, occupation, industry, self-employment, part-time work
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Foged and Peri (2016) Immigrants' Effect on Native Workers: New Analysis on Longitudinal Data | AEJ: Applied Economics | 1991–2008 | 1,864,027 observations of employed low-skilled natives, 1995–2008, in the fixed-effects panel (20 percent random sample of natives); balanced-panel difference-in-differences regressions use 71,053 natives employed in 1994 | Individual | - Integrated Database for Labour Market Research (IDA)
- Occupation codes linked to O*NET task intensities (manual, communication, cognitive)
- Full population registers for municipality immigrant shares
- Refugee spatial dispersal policy 1986–1998 (initial refugee allocation by municipality)
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Kreiner et al. (2015) Taxation and the Long Run Allocation of Labor: Theory and Danish Evidence | Journal of Public Economics | 2004–2006 (base year 2005) | 126,400 workplaces employing 1.4 million workers | Individual + firm | - Integrated Database for Labour Market Research (IDA)
- Wage Statistics Register (Lønstatistikken) for hours-adjusted wages (robustness)
- Empirical effective marginal tax rate schedule for 2006 from Kleven and Kreiner (2006)
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Bruze et al. (2015) The Dynamics of Marriage and Divorce | Journal of Labor Economics | 1980–2006 (ages 20 to 46) | 61,780 individuals (31,835 men and 29,945 women) | Individual | - Population register with marital and cohabitation histories (BEF)
- Education registers (UDDA), completed education at age 46
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Damm and Dustmann (2014) Does Growing Up in a High Crime Neighborhood Affect Youth Criminal Behavior? | American Economic Review | 1980–2006 | 4,425 children | Individual | - Central Police Register: crime charges and convictions for the full population
- Administrative registers: age, residence, parents' IDs, country of origin, immigrant status and date of immigration
- Educational Institution Register and surveys
- Municipality-level crime and socio-economic measures built from the registers
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Hummels et al. (2014) The Wage Effects of Offshoring: Evidence from Danish Matched Worker-Firm Data | American Economic Review | 1995–2006 (trade data 1990–2006) | about 1.95 million worker-firm-year and 9,800 firm-year observations | Individual + firm | - Firm Statistics Register (FirmStat/FIRM)
- Integrated Database for Labour Market Research (IDA)
- Firm-worker link (FIDA)
- Foreign Trade Statistics Register, Extrastat and Intrastat (UHDI)
- UN COMTRADE world trade data for instruments
- Firm accounts and other firm registers (Data Appendix)
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Utar (2014) When the Floodgates Open: Northern Firms' Response to Removal of Trade Quotas on Chinese Goods | AEJ: Applied Economics | 1995–2007 | 1,090 unique textile and clothing firms (875 firms, 1995–2005, for the product-portfolio analysis) | Individual + firm | - Integrated Database for Labour Market Research (IDA)
- Firm accounting statistics (Regnskabsdata / FIRE)
- International trade data from customs records (Udenrigshandel / UHDI)
- Domestic production/sales by product (Varestatistik / VARES), 1995–2005
- EU SIGL textile and clothing quota licence database
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Kleven and Schultz (2014) Estimating Taxable Income Responses Using Danish Tax Reforms | AEJ: Economic Policy | Data since 1980; tax simulator and estimation 1984–2005 (three-year intervals 1984–1987 to 2002–2005) | about 37 million observations (stacked three-year differences; about 49 million before sample restrictions) | Individual | - Income Tax Register (tax return information)
- Integrated Database for Labour Market Research (IDA)
- Authors' own tax simulator of the Danish tax system, 1984–2005
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Kleven et al. (2014) Migration and Wage Effects of Taxing Top Earners: Evidence from the Foreigners' Tax Scheme in Denmark | Quarterly Journal of Economics | 1980–2010 (tax data since 1980; scheme introduced 1992) | – | Individual | - Administrative tax and payroll records for all residents (income tax register)
- Civil registration (CPR) citizenship and migration records with dates of entry and exit
- Foreigners' tax scheme beneficiary records (contract start and end dates)
- Employer links at firm and establishment level with industry
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Bagger et al. (2014) Tenure, Experience, Human Capital, and Wages: A Tractable Equilibrium Search Model of Wage Dynamics | American Economic Review | 1985–2003 | 168,649, 320,638 and 66,155 workers (2,534,203, 4,344,288 and 663,362 observations) in the three education groups | Individual + firm | - Weekly labour market spell data built from administrative registers (employment, unemployment, non-participation, self-employment, retirement)
- Integrated Database for Labour Market Research (IDA): hourly wages, education, experience, ownership
- ATP pension contributions used to measure actual experience since 1964
- Firm accounts survey (Accounts Statistics) 1999–2003 with value added and hours
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Chetty et al. (2014) Active vs. Passive Decisions and Crowd-Out in Retirement Savings Accounts: Evidence from Denmark | Quarterly Journal of Economics | 1995–2009 | approximately 41 million observations for 4 million individuals | Individual | - Income tax register with third-party reported earnings and pension contributions (IND)
- Third-party reported wealth: end-of-year assets and liabilities in taxable accounts
- Population register (BEF)
- Integrated Database for Labour Market Research (IDA)
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Dahl et al. (2013) Wage Dispersion and Decentralization of Wage Bargaining | Journal of Labor Economics | 1992–2001 | about 1.14 million worker-year observations (1,137,367) | Individual + firm | - Integrated Database for Labour Market Research (IDA), matched employer-employee data
- Income register (tax files)
- Supplementary Pension Fund (ATP) contributions for hours worked
- DA/LO bargaining-segment classification by NACE industry and DISCO occupation (Confederation of Danish Employers)
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Maire and Schjerning (2013) Tax Bunching, Income Shifting and Self-Employment | Journal of Public Economics | – | – | Individual | - Tax records of Danish self-employed individuals (taxable income, retained earnings)
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Browning et al. (2013) Housing Wealth and Consumption: A Micro Panel Study | Economic Journal | 1987–1996 | – | Individual | - Administrative income and wealth (tax) registers for a 10% random sample of the Danish population aged 16+
- House price / housing wealth information from registers
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Ejrnæs and Hochguertel (2013) Is Business Failure Due to Lack of Effort? Empirical Evidence from a Large Administrative Sample | Economic Journal | 1981–1998 | 13,434 individuals and 86,092 observations (estimation sample) | Individual | - CAM 10% Sample: 10% random sample of the Danish population aged 16+ (linked administrative registers incl. tax and benefit records)
- Unemployment insurance fund membership records
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Bingley et al. (2013) Unemployment Insurance, Wage Dynamics and Inequality Over the Life Cycle | Economic Journal | 1980–2003 | roughly 810,000 individuals, about 12.5 million person-year observations | Individual | - Administrative register data on the Danish labour force (Statistics Denmark): annual labour earnings and hours-derived hourly wages
- UI fund membership contributions reported to tax authorities
- Mandatory pension contributions (ATP) for year of labour market entry
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Stoyanov and Zubanov (2012) Productivity Spillovers Across Firms through Worker Mobility | AEJ: Applied Economics | 1995–2007 | 173,929 firm-year observations (about 5.8 million worker-year observations, 668,034 job changers); benchmark regressions use 74,507 and 61,112 firm-year observations | Individual + firm | - Matched employer-employee data from Statistics Denmark (worker records from 1983, ages 15–65)
- Manufacturing firm-level accounts data with sales, value added, materials, capital and investment, 1995–2007
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Kleven et al. (2011) Unwilling or Unable to Cheat? Evidence from a Tax Audit Experiment in Denmark | Econometrica | 2006–2007 income years (2007 and 2008 filing seasons) | 25,020 employees and 17,764 self-employed | Individual | - Randomized tax audit experiment implemented by the Danish tax authority (SKAT)
- SKAT Business Object Database: third-party information reports, pre-populated returns, filed returns and after-audit returns, item by item
- SKAT computer-generated audit flags
- Basic socio-economic variables and employer industry/size from SKAT records
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Chetty et al. (2011) Adjustment Costs, Firm Responses, and Micro vs. Macro Labor Supply Elasticities: Evidence from Danish Tax Records | Quarterly Journal of Economics | 1994–2001 | 17.9 million observations of wage earners (6.8 million within DKr 50,000 of the top tax cutoff; 1.8 million self-employed observations) | Individual + firm | - Income tax register / Income Statistics Register (IND)
- Population register (BEF)
- Integrated Database for Labour Market Research (IDA) with firm ID and occupation
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Heinesen (2010) Estimating Class-size Effects using Within-school Variation in Subject-specific Classes | Economic Journal | School years 2001/2002–2003/2004 | 6,507 students in 782 school/year cells and 375 schools | Individual | - Administrative registers on 9th-grade marks and exam results, school attended, merged via personal and school ID numbers
- Family background registers (parents' education, income, labour market status, family structure)
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Nielsen et al. (2010) Estimating the Effect of Student Aid on College Enrollment: Evidence from a Government Grant Policy Reform | AEJ: Economic Policy | 1983–2005 (population register data); high school graduation cohorts 1983–1990, estimation on cohorts 1985 and 1988–1990 | 108,933 high school graduates in the final selected sample; 54,843 observations in the main probit estimates (cohorts 1985, 1988–1990) | Individual | - Register-based dataset covering the entire Danish population, 1983–2005 (Statistics Denmark)
- Educational event histories (education registers), 1973–2005
- High school GPA records
- Parental income used for student-aid means-testing (tax records)
- Parental liquid assets from wealth/tax records
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Gupta and Simonsen (2010) Non-cognitive Child Outcomes and Universal High Quality Child Care | Journal of Public Economics | 1994–2003 (children born 1995; care measured 1999, outcomes 2003) | 4,343 observations (children) in the main OLS estimates | Individual | - Danish Longitudinal Survey of Children (DALSC), waves 1996, 1999, 2003
- Administrative registers on parents' education, labour market status, hours, wages and income (1994–2003)
- Day Care Register (Statistics Denmark), used descriptively
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Leth-Petersen (2010) Intertemporal Consumption and Credit Constraints: Does Total Expenditure Respond to an Exogenous Shock to Credit? | American Economic Review | 1987–1996 | 38,486 households, of which 25,275 live in owner-occupied housing (working-paper version) | Individual | - Income tax register: taxable income, transfers, final taxes
- Wealth tax register: third-party reported assets and liabilities (housing, shares, mortgage deeds, cash, bonds, debt)
- Administrative registers on family composition and dwelling characteristics
- Danish Family Expenditure Survey (DES) 1994–1996, used to validate the expenditure imputation
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Clark et al. (2009) Job Satisfaction and Co-worker Wages: Status or Signal? | Economic Journal | 1994–2001 | about 16,000 observations on around 4,100 individuals | Individual + firm | - Danish sample of the European Community Household Panel (ECHP), eight waves
- Integrated Database for Labour Market Research (IDA), matched via CPR number
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Damm (2009) Ethnic Enclaves and Immigrant Labor Market Outcomes: Quasi-Experimental Evidence | Journal of Labor Economics | Registers 1984–2000; refugee immigration cohorts 1986–1993 | 13,927 individuals (balanced panel observed annually for seven years after immigration) | Individual | - Longitudinal administrative registers on the immigrant population (Statistics Denmark), 1984–2000
- Population register (BEF) incl. country of origin, year of immigration and municipality
- Survey-based register on immigrants' pre-immigration education and integrated pupil register
- Municipality statistics: unemployment register, election statistics, register-based labour force statistics, housing statistics
- Danish Refugee Council administrative statistics on temporary housing (to identify assignment municipality)
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Graversen and Ours (2008) How to Help Unemployed Find Jobs Quickly: Experimental Evidence from a Mandatory Activation Program | Journal of Public Economics | November 2005–mid September 2006 | 4,520 unemployment spells (2,229 treatment, 2,291 control) | Individual | - Public Employment Service (PES) administrative registers (treatment status, demographics, meetings with caseworkers)
- DREAM weekly register of public income transfers (Danish National Labour Market Authority)
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Lentz and Mortensen (2008) An Empirical Model of Growth Through Product Innovation | Econometrica | 1992–1997 | unbalanced panel of 4,872 firms | Firm | - Danish Business Statistics Register: annual panel of privately owned firms (value added, total wage bill, full-time equivalent employment)
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Bennedsen et al. (2007) Inside the Family Firm: The Role of Families in Succession Decisions and Performance | Quarterly Journal of Economics | 1994–2002 (management data); financial data 1991–2003 | 5,334 successions | Individual + firm | - Købmandsstandens Oplysningsbureau (KOB) firm financial and management data (private, from annual reports)
- Danish Civil Registration System (CPR) with family links
- Danish Commerce and Companies Agency (Erhvervs- og Selskabsstyrelsen) management/board records with CPR numbers
- Industry-level data from Statistics Denmark and OECD STAN
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Bingley and Lanot (2007) Public Pension Programmes and the Retirement of Married Couples in Denmark | Journal of Public Economics | – | – | Individual | - 1% sample of Danish couples of potential retirement age from an administrative register
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Munch et al. (2006) Are Homeowners Really More Unemployed? | Economic Journal | 1997–2000 | 18,992 persons with 52,738 unemployment spells | Individual | - Administrative register data on unemployment spells for a 2.5% random sample of the Danish population
- Regional unemployment measure from the Institute for Local Government Studies (1987–2000)
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Geerdsen (2006) Is there a Threat Effect of Labour Market Programmes? A Study of ALMP in the Danish UI System | Economic Journal | – | – | Individual | - Danish UI system administrative data (not specified in abstract)
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Christensen et al. (2005) On-the-Job Search and the Wage Distribution | Journal of Labor Economics | November 1994–November 1995 | 113,332 private-sector establishments | Individual + firm | - Integrated Database for Labour Market Research (IDA), matched employer-employee data
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Svarer et al. (2005) Rent Control and Unemployment Duration | Journal of Public Economics | 1997–2000 | 14,645 persons contributing 31,966 unemployment spells | Individual | - 10% random sample of the Danish adult population from administrative registers (Statistics Denmark)
- Housing unit characteristics for dwellings occupied by the sample
- Weekly labour market event histories
- Danish Tax Authorities 1999 hedonic model for owner-occupied housing (to predict uncontrolled rent)
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Browning and Leth-Petersen (2003) Imputing Consumption from Income and Wealth Information | Economic Journal | 1994–1996 survey years, linked to register years around the survey year | – | Individual | - Danish Expenditure Survey 1994–96
- Administrative income and wealth (tax) records: disposable income and year-end asset holdings
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Albæk and Sørensen (1998) Worker Flows and Job Flows in Danish Manufacturing, 1980–91 | Economic Journal | 1980–1991 | – | Individual + firm | - Plant-level data on all Danish manufacturing plants and their workers (register not named in abstract)
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