Helena S Nielsen
Biographic Data
| ID | 212189 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Helena S Nielsen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Helena S |
| FAMILY NAME | Nielsen |
| SIGNATURE | NIELSEN H S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Aarhus University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2577-4734 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 176 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Lowering the Minimum Age of Criminal Responsibility: Consequences for Juvenile Crime
A systematic literature review of math interventions across educational settings from early childhood education to high school
Early math skills lay the foundation for children’s long-term academic success. An increasing number of randomized controlled math interventions have been carried out across educational settings. The aim of the present systematic review was to identify the distribution of the randomized controlled math interventions conducted between 2001 and 2021 in educational settings across Early Childhood Education (ECE) up to high school among various sampl…
Academic achievement and wellbeing of dual language learners: Evidence from a busing program
We exploit exogenous variation from a school desegregation policy to investigate the determinants of academic achievement and wellbeing of dual language learners. The policy buses some school starters with low host-country language proficiency from schools with many dual language learners, higher total budget for dual language learning and higher per-pupil spending to schools with fewer dual language learners but lower total budget for dual langu…
Sibling Spillovers
It is notoriously difficult to identify peer effects within the family. Using administrative data on children from both Florida and Denmark, the paper examines the effects of having a disabled younger sibling. To address the identification challenge, the paper compares the differential effects for first- and second-born children in three-plus-child families, taking advantage of the fact that birth order influences the amount of time that a child …
Learning from Performance Information
Years of research on performance management has generally concluded that performance information is seldom used purposefully by public managers and that it does not improve performance as intended. More recently, both theoretical and empirical work have begun to focus on situations in which performance management may facilitate internal organizational learning. In this study, we focus on one key component in performance management systems, namely…
Long-Term Consequences of Early Parenthood
ObjectiveThe study examines how early parenthood affects mothers and fathers of different ages, family backgrounds, and cohabitation status.BackgroundAlthough having children at an early age is associated with unfavorable outcomes for women, the evidence for men is sparse; moreover, having children and cohabiting early are closely related.MethodUsing Danish register data merging all childbirths to mothers and fathers, the authors examined the lon…
Nudging in education
Can we nudge children, adolescents and their parents to make better decisions on education? And can we nudge teachers to support and encourage better decision making? Education decisions are taken at young ages and involve immediate costs and potential, future benefits. In such settings behavioural barriers (e.g. lack of self-control, limited attention and social norms) likely influence choices and this may motivate the use of low cost ‘nudges’ t…
School Starting Age and The Crime‐Age Profile
This article uses register‐based data to investigate the effects of school starting age on crime. Through this, we provide insights into the determinants of crime‐age profiles. We exploit that Danish children typically start first grade in the calendar year they turn seven, which gives rise to a discontinuity in school starting age for children born around new year. Our analysis speaks against a simple invariant crime‐age profile as is popular in…
Mathematics and Gender: Heterogeneity in Causes and Consequences
We exploit an institutional reduction in the costs of acquiring advanced high school mathematics to assess the causes and consequences of fewer girls choosing advanced mathematics. Girls at the top and boys at the middle of the mathematics ability distribution took more mathematics because of the cost reduction. We estimate a positive average earnings effect encompassing girls completing more advanced and more mathematics intensive college degree…
The importance of children's ADHD for parents' relationship stability and labor supply
The impact of parents' years since migration on children's academic achievement
In this paper, we employ register data for eight cohorts of second-generation immigrant pupils to identify the impact of each parent's years since migration on their children's school achievements. We exploit variation in years since migration and within-family variation. We find evidence of a positive impact of parents' years since migration on children's academic achievement. Mothers' years of residence tend to be more important for Danish, whi…
Labor market transitions of immigrants with emphasis on marginalization and self-employment
Evaluation of training in African enterprises
The school-to-work transition of 2 nd generation immigrants in Denmark
Declining employment success of immigrant males in Sweden: Observed or unobserved characteristics
Child Labor in Africa: A Comparative Study
This article analyzes the determinants of child labor in Africa as inferred from recent empirical studies. The empirical analysis is based on five country studies undertaken in three different African countries, namely, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, and Zambia. Some support is found for the popular belief of poverty as a determinant of child labor; however, other determinants are of similar importance. Among school costs, transportation costs have the gr…
Returns to Schooling in Less Developed Countries: New Evidence from Zambia
In our analysis of returns to schooling in Zambia, we look at the rural and urban population separately, and estimate the returns to schooling in each region based on a selection model in two stages. For urban areas we find that the returns to primary schooling are nil whereas the returns to schooling beyond primary school are higher. For rural areas we find that the returns to primary schooling are positive and no different from the returns to e…
Child labour or school attendance? Evidence from Zambia
The school-to-work transition of 2 nd generation immigrants in Denmark
Child labour or school attendance? Evidence from Zambia
Learning from Performance Information
Years of research on performance management has generally concluded that performance information is seldom used purposefully by public managers and that it does not improve performance as intended. More recently, both theoretical and empirical work have begun to focus on situations in which performance management may facilitate internal organizational learning. In this study, we focus on one key component in performance management systems, namely…
Declining employment success of immigrant males in Sweden: Observed or unobserved characteristics
Labor market transitions of immigrants with emphasis on marginalization and self-employment
Sibling Spillovers
It is notoriously difficult to identify peer effects within the family. Using administrative data on children from both Florida and Denmark, the paper examines the effects of having a disabled younger sibling. To address the identification challenge, the paper compares the differential effects for first- and second-born children in three-plus-child families, taking advantage of the fact that birth order influences the amount of time that a child …
Long-Term Consequences of Early Parenthood
ObjectiveThe study examines how early parenthood affects mothers and fathers of different ages, family backgrounds, and cohabitation status.BackgroundAlthough having children at an early age is associated with unfavorable outcomes for women, the evidence for men is sparse; moreover, having children and cohabiting early are closely related.MethodUsing Danish register data merging all childbirths to mothers and fathers, the authors examined the lon…
Child Labor in Africa: A Comparative Study
This article analyzes the determinants of child labor in Africa as inferred from recent empirical studies. The empirical analysis is based on five country studies undertaken in three different African countries, namely, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, and Zambia. Some support is found for the popular belief of poverty as a determinant of child labor; however, other determinants are of similar importance. Among school costs, transportation costs have the gr…
The importance of children's ADHD for parents' relationship stability and labor supply
School Starting Age and The Crime‐Age Profile
This article uses register‐based data to investigate the effects of school starting age on crime. Through this, we provide insights into the determinants of crime‐age profiles. We exploit that Danish children typically start first grade in the calendar year they turn seven, which gives rise to a discontinuity in school starting age for children born around new year. Our analysis speaks against a simple invariant crime‐age profile as is popular in…
The impact of parents' years since migration on children's academic achievement
In this paper, we employ register data for eight cohorts of second-generation immigrant pupils to identify the impact of each parent's years since migration on their children's school achievements. We exploit variation in years since migration and within-family variation. We find evidence of a positive impact of parents' years since migration on children's academic achievement. Mothers' years of residence tend to be more important for Danish, whi…
Evaluation of training in African enterprises
Mathematics and Gender: Heterogeneity in Causes and Consequences
We exploit an institutional reduction in the costs of acquiring advanced high school mathematics to assess the causes and consequences of fewer girls choosing advanced mathematics. Girls at the top and boys at the middle of the mathematics ability distribution took more mathematics because of the cost reduction. We estimate a positive average earnings effect encompassing girls completing more advanced and more mathematics intensive college degree…
Returns to Schooling in Less Developed Countries: New Evidence from Zambia
In our analysis of returns to schooling in Zambia, we look at the rural and urban population separately, and estimate the returns to schooling in each region based on a selection model in two stages. For urban areas we find that the returns to primary schooling are nil whereas the returns to schooling beyond primary school are higher. For rural areas we find that the returns to primary schooling are positive and no different from the returns to e…
Child labour or school attendance? Evidence from Zambia
Declining employment success of immigrant males in Sweden: Observed or unobserved characteristics
Child Labor in Africa: A Comparative Study
This article analyzes the determinants of child labor in Africa as inferred from recent empirical studies. The empirical analysis is based on five country studies undertaken in three different African countries, namely, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, and Zambia. Some support is found for the popular belief of poverty as a determinant of child labor; however, other determinants are of similar importance. Among school costs, transportation costs have the gr…
Returns to Schooling in Less Developed Countries: New Evidence from Zambia
In our analysis of returns to schooling in Zambia, we look at the rural and urban population separately, and estimate the returns to schooling in each region based on a selection model in two stages. For urban areas we find that the returns to primary schooling are nil whereas the returns to schooling beyond primary school are higher. For rural areas we find that the returns to primary schooling are positive and no different from the returns to e…
The school-to-work transition of 2 nd generation immigrants in Denmark
Evaluation of training in African enterprises
Labor market transitions of immigrants with emphasis on marginalization and self-employment
The impact of parents' years since migration on children's academic achievement
In this paper, we employ register data for eight cohorts of second-generation immigrant pupils to identify the impact of each parent's years since migration on their children's school achievements. We exploit variation in years since migration and within-family variation. We find evidence of a positive impact of parents' years since migration on children's academic achievement. Mothers' years of residence tend to be more important for Danish, whi…
The importance of children's ADHD for parents' relationship stability and labor supply
Mathematics and Gender: Heterogeneity in Causes and Consequences
We exploit an institutional reduction in the costs of acquiring advanced high school mathematics to assess the causes and consequences of fewer girls choosing advanced mathematics. Girls at the top and boys at the middle of the mathematics ability distribution took more mathematics because of the cost reduction. We estimate a positive average earnings effect encompassing girls completing more advanced and more mathematics intensive college degree…
School Starting Age and The Crime‐Age Profile
This article uses register‐based data to investigate the effects of school starting age on crime. Through this, we provide insights into the determinants of crime‐age profiles. We exploit that Danish children typically start first grade in the calendar year they turn seven, which gives rise to a discontinuity in school starting age for children born around new year. Our analysis speaks against a simple invariant crime‐age profile as is popular in…
Nudging in education
Can we nudge children, adolescents and their parents to make better decisions on education? And can we nudge teachers to support and encourage better decision making? Education decisions are taken at young ages and involve immediate costs and potential, future benefits. In such settings behavioural barriers (e.g. lack of self-control, limited attention and social norms) likely influence choices and this may motivate the use of low cost ‘nudges’ t…
Sibling Spillovers
It is notoriously difficult to identify peer effects within the family. Using administrative data on children from both Florida and Denmark, the paper examines the effects of having a disabled younger sibling. To address the identification challenge, the paper compares the differential effects for first- and second-born children in three-plus-child families, taking advantage of the fact that birth order influences the amount of time that a child …
Learning from Performance Information
Years of research on performance management has generally concluded that performance information is seldom used purposefully by public managers and that it does not improve performance as intended. More recently, both theoretical and empirical work have begun to focus on situations in which performance management may facilitate internal organizational learning. In this study, we focus on one key component in performance management systems, namely…
Long-Term Consequences of Early Parenthood
ObjectiveThe study examines how early parenthood affects mothers and fathers of different ages, family backgrounds, and cohabitation status.BackgroundAlthough having children at an early age is associated with unfavorable outcomes for women, the evidence for men is sparse; moreover, having children and cohabiting early are closely related.MethodUsing Danish register data merging all childbirths to mothers and fathers, the authors examined the lon…
Academic achievement and wellbeing of dual language learners: Evidence from a busing program
We exploit exogenous variation from a school desegregation policy to investigate the determinants of academic achievement and wellbeing of dual language learners. The policy buses some school starters with low host-country language proficiency from schools with many dual language learners, higher total budget for dual language learning and higher per-pupil spending to schools with fewer dual language learners but lower total budget for dual langu…
A systematic literature review of math interventions across educational settings from early childhood education to high school
Early math skills lay the foundation for children’s long-term academic success. An increasing number of randomized controlled math interventions have been carried out across educational settings. The aim of the present systematic review was to identify the distribution of the randomized controlled math interventions conducted between 2001 and 2021 in educational settings across Early Childhood Education (ECE) up to high school among various sampl…
Lowering the Minimum Age of Criminal Responsibility: Consequences for Juvenile Crime
Economics (13 works) · Demographic economics (7 works) · Labour economics (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (5 works) · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (5 works) · Economic growth (4 works) · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality (4 works) · School Choice and Performance (4 works)