Simon Skovgaard Jensen

Biographic Data

ID4174848
NAMESimon Skovgaard Jensen
GIVEN NAMESSimon Skovgaard
FAMILY NAMEJensen
SIGNATUREJENSEN S S
AFFILIATIONSAarhus University
ORCID0000-0003-0777-6162
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS5
TOTAL CITATIONS2
WORKS AS AUTHOR5
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Does schooling increase or reduce inequality in achievement and conscientiousness in Denmark

    Open AccessSimon Skovgaard JensenARTICLEResearch in Social Stratification…2026References: 11

    A growing body of research has established that schooling either reduces, socioeconomic inequality in achievement or contributes equally to student, achievement. However, much of this work focuses on the early years of education and, primarily examines achievement outcomes, with little known about the effects in later, years of school, and other outcomes. This study employs a Differential Exposure, Approach, which exploits (conditionally) random …

  • Parental unemployment and children's well-being at school

    Open AccessSimon Skovgaard Jensen, Michael Kühhirt et al.ARTICLEActa Sociologica2025References: 49

    We examine the effect of parental unemployment on the school well-being of children aged 6 to 9 while considering differential effects by unemployment duration, reemployment, and parents' socioeconomic status. The analysis is based on a mandatory school well-being survey, which is answered by the children and conducted annually in Danish public schools (2014-2019) and linked to administrative register data. A child-level fixed effect model is use…

  • Union dissolution and children's educational achievement

    Open AccessP Fallesen, Giampiero Passaretta et al.ARTICLEEuropean Sociological Review2025References: 42

    We study whether the educational disadvantage of children from households where parents have dissolved their union is due to selection or deteriorating non-school environments and whether exposure to school environments compensates or exacerbates such disadvantage. We apply a differential exposure approach (DEA) to Danish population data collecting public-school reading comprehension tests. The approach exploits variation in children's birth date…

  • Parental job loss and the role of unemployment duration and income changes for children's education

    Open AccessSimon Skovgaard Jensen, K Lindemann et al.ARTICLEEuropean Sociological Review2024Cited by: 2References: 43

    This article studies the impact of parental job loss, subsequent unemployment duration, and income changes on the results of the final exam in lower secondary education and on the decision to pursue an academic track in Denmark. Drawing on administrative register data we use sibling fixed effects models as well as a before-after-test design to investigate the shorter-term effects of parental job loss. The results show that there are hardly any ef…

  • The effect of Covid-19-related school closures on students’ well-being

    Open AccessSimon Skovgaard Jensen, David ReimerARTICLESSM - Population Health2021

    We study the effect of the temporary closure of Danish schools as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic in spring 2020 on students' reported levels of well-being and test whether the effect varies among students of different socioeconomic status. To this end, we draw on panel data from the mandatory annual nationwide Danish Student Well-being Survey (DSWS) and exploit random variation in whether students answered the 2020 survey before or during the …