Mette Kjærgaard Thomsen
Biographic Data
| ID | 357932 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mette Kjærgaard Thomsen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mette Kjærgaard |
| FAMILY NAME | Thomsen |
| SIGNATURE | THOMSEN M K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southern Denmark |
| ORCID | 0009-0003-9218-8644 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 187 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Top, Bottom, or Versatile? Sexual Role Trends Across Generations and Regions on a Gay Dating App
Understanding how men who have sex with men (MSM) identify with sexual role labels such as Top, Bottom, or Versatile offers descriptive insights into how sexuality, identity, and self-presentation intersect on dating platforms. Drawing on cross-sectional data from 141,156 active users of the global gay dating app Surge, this study describes age-based and regional differences in sexual role identification. We model user-reported role preferences u…
Coproduction encouragement can backfire: Evidence from randomized controlled trials
Public organizations often seek to encourage citizens to coproduce public goods and services by providing knowledge, information, and other resources to support coproduction. However, in a randomized field experiment, we find that an encouragement–in the form of information–may lead to unintended perceptions among citizens of being controlled. This unfortunate side effect occurs primarily among less educated citizens. Based on insights from the e…
Transgender lives at the population level: Evidence from Danish administrative data
This paper provides the first rigorous account of the diverse characteristics of transgender individuals at the population level, using data from Danish population registers. We observe three transgender subpopulations within the same national setting: all who changed thier legal sex (T-Legal, n = 1,995), all who have been assigned trans-related diagnostic codes (T-ICD, n = 1,594), and those who self-identified as transgender in a representative …
Can Managerial Communication Reduce Ambiguity Among Service Professionals About Volunteer Roles in Coproduction? An Experimental Test
Despite the clear benefits volunteers can bring to public service organizations, their involvement may also create or exacerbate challenges for managers in ensuring clear roles for professionals staffing such organizations. We argue that simple, strategic communication messages can clarify the relative roles of volunteers and professionals. We test this assertion with a low-cost experimental communication experiment embedded in a survey of 240 pr…
Priming citizens to think about public participation initiatives: Does it impact their view of government
Prior research has shown that public participation initiatives may have positive effects on how participating citizens view government. However, little is known about whether and how priming citizens to think about such initiatives influences the view of government among the larger public. Using a survey experiment, we find that the effect of priming citizens to think of a public participation initiative that includes a small group of citizens on…
Coproduction of core and complementary tasks in times of service decline: Experimental evidence
Citizen coproduction has long been recognized as a lever to maintain service quality in times of service decline, but the key notion that citizens will “pitch in” and coproduce in times of service decline has undergone little empirical scrutiny. Using elderly care in Denmark as empirical setting, we conduct a survey experiment with a two‐by‐two factorial design in a representative sample of elderly citizens ( n = 864) to evaluate the effects of a…
It's not merely about the content: How rules are communicated matters to administrative burden
Research suggests that citizens often abstain from taking up benefits for which they are eligible because of the costs of learning about how to apply for and the compliance and psychological costs associated with taking up benefits. But to what extent can such burdens be altered simply by changing the way rules are communicated? Bridging literatures on administrative burden, communication theory, and cognitive psychology, we theorize and test the…
Judgment of Volunteer Competence among Service Professionals: Stereotypes or Skills
While public service professionals may rely on stereotypes and social categories in exercising who gets what, when and how in clientelist citizen‐state interactions, it remains unclear whether negative judgments similarly pervade in settings where citizens help produce–rather than consume–public services. We propose that service professionals judge volunteers as incompetent based on (1) a lack of the skills necessary to solve specific tasks, and/…
Why Do Policymakers Support Administrative Burdens? The Roles of Deservingness, Political Ideology, and Personal Experience
Administrative burdens affect peoples’ experience of public administration but there is, to date, limited evidence to as why policymakers are willing to accept and impose burdens. To address this gap, we draw from the policy design and administrative burden literatures to develop the concept of burden tolerance—the willingness of policymakers and people more generally to passively allow or actively impose state actions that result in others exper…
The Psychological Costs of Citizen Coproduction
Coproduction where citizens collaborate with public employees in producing and delivering public services is often argued to be associated with benefits for either participating citizens, their relatives, friends, or society at large. Less is known about the potential downsides associated with citizen participation in coproduction of public services. We argue that psychological costs, such as experiences of stigma, stress, and loss of autonomy ma…
Service Professionals' Response to Volunteer Involvement in Service Production
Involving volunteers in the production and delivery of public services is a core policy objective of governments around the world. While existing research on volunteer involvement in service production, for example, has focused on advantages and disadvantages of such involvement and different dimensions of volunteer involvement, little is known about service professionals' response to volunteer involvement in public service production. Integratin…
Citizen Coproduction: The Influence of Self-Efficacy Perception and Knowledge of How to Coproduce
Citizen coproduction, that is, citizens’ input to the provision of public services, holds great potential to improve services provided to citizens. It is therefore important to understand why some citizens are more likely to coproduce than others. Citizens’ skills and knowledge to coproduce are argued to be crucial for their contribution to coproduction, but research on this topic is sparse. Building on coproduction theory supplemented with theor…
Parental time investments in children: Evidence from Denmark
Numerous time use studies consistently find that highly educated parents spend more time with their children and more time on developmental activities than do less educated parents. Nevertheless, few empirical studies have examined whether and how these inequalities in parental caring are related to children's educational performance. This study aims to provide a more complete picture of how parental time spent with children is related to childre…
Policy Implications of Limiting Immigrant Concentration in Danish Public Schools
Immigrant students in Denmark on average perform worse in lower secondary school than native Danish students. Part of the effect may not stem from the immigrant students themselves, but from the student composition at the school. From a policy perspective, the latter aspect is quite interesting since it is more feasible to change student composition in schools than the socioeconomic status of the individual students. This article describes theore…
Why Do Policymakers Support Administrative Burdens? The Roles of Deservingness, Political Ideology, and Personal Experience
Administrative burdens affect peoples’ experience of public administration but there is, to date, limited evidence to as why policymakers are willing to accept and impose burdens. To address this gap, we draw from the policy design and administrative burden literatures to develop the concept of burden tolerance—the willingness of policymakers and people more generally to passively allow or actively impose state actions that result in others exper…
The Psychological Costs of Citizen Coproduction
Coproduction where citizens collaborate with public employees in producing and delivering public services is often argued to be associated with benefits for either participating citizens, their relatives, friends, or society at large. Less is known about the potential downsides associated with citizen participation in coproduction of public services. We argue that psychological costs, such as experiences of stigma, stress, and loss of autonomy ma…
Citizen Coproduction: The Influence of Self-Efficacy Perception and Knowledge of How to Coproduce
Citizen coproduction, that is, citizens’ input to the provision of public services, holds great potential to improve services provided to citizens. It is therefore important to understand why some citizens are more likely to coproduce than others. Citizens’ skills and knowledge to coproduce are argued to be crucial for their contribution to coproduction, but research on this topic is sparse. Building on coproduction theory supplemented with theor…
Service Professionals' Response to Volunteer Involvement in Service Production
Involving volunteers in the production and delivery of public services is a core policy objective of governments around the world. While existing research on volunteer involvement in service production, for example, has focused on advantages and disadvantages of such involvement and different dimensions of volunteer involvement, little is known about service professionals' response to volunteer involvement in public service production. Integratin…
Parental time investments in children: Evidence from Denmark
Numerous time use studies consistently find that highly educated parents spend more time with their children and more time on developmental activities than do less educated parents. Nevertheless, few empirical studies have examined whether and how these inequalities in parental caring are related to children's educational performance. This study aims to provide a more complete picture of how parental time spent with children is related to childre…
Policy Implications of Limiting Immigrant Concentration in Danish Public Schools
Immigrant students in Denmark on average perform worse in lower secondary school than native Danish students. Part of the effect may not stem from the immigrant students themselves, but from the student composition at the school. From a policy perspective, the latter aspect is quite interesting since it is more feasible to change student composition in schools than the socioeconomic status of the individual students. This article describes theore…
Transgender lives at the population level: Evidence from Danish administrative data
This paper provides the first rigorous account of the diverse characteristics of transgender individuals at the population level, using data from Danish population registers. We observe three transgender subpopulations within the same national setting: all who changed thier legal sex (T-Legal, n = 1,995), all who have been assigned trans-related diagnostic codes (T-ICD, n = 1,594), and those who self-identified as transgender in a representative …
Coproduction of core and complementary tasks in times of service decline: Experimental evidence
Citizen coproduction has long been recognized as a lever to maintain service quality in times of service decline, but the key notion that citizens will “pitch in” and coproduce in times of service decline has undergone little empirical scrutiny. Using elderly care in Denmark as empirical setting, we conduct a survey experiment with a two‐by‐two factorial design in a representative sample of elderly citizens ( n = 864) to evaluate the effects of a…
Can Managerial Communication Reduce Ambiguity Among Service Professionals About Volunteer Roles in Coproduction? An Experimental Test
Despite the clear benefits volunteers can bring to public service organizations, their involvement may also create or exacerbate challenges for managers in ensuring clear roles for professionals staffing such organizations. We argue that simple, strategic communication messages can clarify the relative roles of volunteers and professionals. We test this assertion with a low-cost experimental communication experiment embedded in a survey of 240 pr…
Policy Implications of Limiting Immigrant Concentration in Danish Public Schools
Immigrant students in Denmark on average perform worse in lower secondary school than native Danish students. Part of the effect may not stem from the immigrant students themselves, but from the student composition at the school. From a policy perspective, the latter aspect is quite interesting since it is more feasible to change student composition in schools than the socioeconomic status of the individual students. This article describes theore…
Citizen Coproduction: The Influence of Self-Efficacy Perception and Knowledge of How to Coproduce
Citizen coproduction, that is, citizens’ input to the provision of public services, holds great potential to improve services provided to citizens. It is therefore important to understand why some citizens are more likely to coproduce than others. Citizens’ skills and knowledge to coproduce are argued to be crucial for their contribution to coproduction, but research on this topic is sparse. Building on coproduction theory supplemented with theor…
Parental time investments in children: Evidence from Denmark
Numerous time use studies consistently find that highly educated parents spend more time with their children and more time on developmental activities than do less educated parents. Nevertheless, few empirical studies have examined whether and how these inequalities in parental caring are related to children's educational performance. This study aims to provide a more complete picture of how parental time spent with children is related to childre…
Service Professionals' Response to Volunteer Involvement in Service Production
Involving volunteers in the production and delivery of public services is a core policy objective of governments around the world. While existing research on volunteer involvement in service production, for example, has focused on advantages and disadvantages of such involvement and different dimensions of volunteer involvement, little is known about service professionals' response to volunteer involvement in public service production. Integratin…
The Psychological Costs of Citizen Coproduction
Coproduction where citizens collaborate with public employees in producing and delivering public services is often argued to be associated with benefits for either participating citizens, their relatives, friends, or society at large. Less is known about the potential downsides associated with citizen participation in coproduction of public services. We argue that psychological costs, such as experiences of stigma, stress, and loss of autonomy ma…
Why Do Policymakers Support Administrative Burdens? The Roles of Deservingness, Political Ideology, and Personal Experience
Administrative burdens affect peoples’ experience of public administration but there is, to date, limited evidence to as why policymakers are willing to accept and impose burdens. To address this gap, we draw from the policy design and administrative burden literatures to develop the concept of burden tolerance—the willingness of policymakers and people more generally to passively allow or actively impose state actions that result in others exper…
Judgment of Volunteer Competence among Service Professionals: Stereotypes or Skills
While public service professionals may rely on stereotypes and social categories in exercising who gets what, when and how in clientelist citizen‐state interactions, it remains unclear whether negative judgments similarly pervade in settings where citizens help produce–rather than consume–public services. We propose that service professionals judge volunteers as incompetent based on (1) a lack of the skills necessary to solve specific tasks, and/…
Can Managerial Communication Reduce Ambiguity Among Service Professionals About Volunteer Roles in Coproduction? An Experimental Test
Despite the clear benefits volunteers can bring to public service organizations, their involvement may also create or exacerbate challenges for managers in ensuring clear roles for professionals staffing such organizations. We argue that simple, strategic communication messages can clarify the relative roles of volunteers and professionals. We test this assertion with a low-cost experimental communication experiment embedded in a survey of 240 pr…
Priming citizens to think about public participation initiatives: Does it impact their view of government
Prior research has shown that public participation initiatives may have positive effects on how participating citizens view government. However, little is known about whether and how priming citizens to think about such initiatives influences the view of government among the larger public. Using a survey experiment, we find that the effect of priming citizens to think of a public participation initiative that includes a small group of citizens on…
Coproduction of core and complementary tasks in times of service decline: Experimental evidence
Citizen coproduction has long been recognized as a lever to maintain service quality in times of service decline, but the key notion that citizens will “pitch in” and coproduce in times of service decline has undergone little empirical scrutiny. Using elderly care in Denmark as empirical setting, we conduct a survey experiment with a two‐by‐two factorial design in a representative sample of elderly citizens ( n = 864) to evaluate the effects of a…
It's not merely about the content: How rules are communicated matters to administrative burden
Research suggests that citizens often abstain from taking up benefits for which they are eligible because of the costs of learning about how to apply for and the compliance and psychological costs associated with taking up benefits. But to what extent can such burdens be altered simply by changing the way rules are communicated? Bridging literatures on administrative burden, communication theory, and cognitive psychology, we theorize and test the…
Transgender lives at the population level: Evidence from Danish administrative data
This paper provides the first rigorous account of the diverse characteristics of transgender individuals at the population level, using data from Danish population registers. We observe three transgender subpopulations within the same national setting: all who changed thier legal sex (T-Legal, n = 1,995), all who have been assigned trans-related diagnostic codes (T-ICD, n = 1,594), and those who self-identified as transgender in a representative …
Top, Bottom, or Versatile? Sexual Role Trends Across Generations and Regions on a Gay Dating App
Understanding how men who have sex with men (MSM) identify with sexual role labels such as Top, Bottom, or Versatile offers descriptive insights into how sexuality, identity, and self-presentation intersect on dating platforms. Drawing on cross-sectional data from 141,156 active users of the global gay dating app Surge, this study describes age-based and regional differences in sexual role identification. We model user-reported role preferences u…
Coproduction encouragement can backfire: Evidence from randomized controlled trials
Public organizations often seek to encourage citizens to coproduce public goods and services by providing knowledge, information, and other resources to support coproduction. However, in a randomized field experiment, we find that an encouragement–in the form of information–may lead to unintended perceptions among citizens of being controlled. This unfortunate side effect occurs primarily among less educated citizens. Based on insights from the e…
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