Published or forthcoming:

Simonsen, M. (forthcoming): Price of High Quality Day Care and Female Employment. Scandinavian Journal of Economics.

Datta Gupta, N. and M. Simonsen (2010): Non-cognitive Child Outcomes and Universal Child Care. Journal of Public Economics 94, 30-43.

Shaikh, A. M., M. Simonsen, E. J. Vytlacil, and N. Yildiz (2009): A Specification Test for the Propensity Score using its Distribution Conditional on Participation. Journal of Econometrics 151, 33-46.

Simonsen, M. and L. Skipper (2008): An Empirical Assessment of Effects of Parenthood on Wages. In D. Millimet, J. Smith & E. J. Vytlacil, eds, Advances in Econometrics 21, pp. 359-380. Working paper version here.

Simonsen, M. and L. Skipper (2006): The Costs of Motherhood: An Analysis Using Matching Estimators. Journal of Applied Econometrics 21(7), pp. 919-934. Working paper version here.

Nielsen, H. S., M. Simonsen, and M. Verner (2004): Does the Gap in Family Friendly Policies Drive the Family Gap? Scandinavian Journal of Economics 106 (4), pp. 721-744. Working paper version here.


Submitted for publication:

Simonsen, M. and L. Skipper (2009): The Family Gap in Wages: What Wombmates Reveal.

Simonsen, M., L. Skipper and N. Skipper (2010): Price Sensitivity of Demand for Prescription Drugs: Exploiting a Regression Kink Design. Working paper 2010-3, Aarhus University, School of Economics and Management.


Work in progress:

Datta Gupta, N. and M. Simonsen: Effects of Universal Child Care on Pre-teen Skills and Risky Behavior.

Cáceres-Delpiano, J. and M. Simonsen: The Toll of Fertility on Mothers' Well-being. Working paper we100603, Universidad Carlos III, Departamento de Economía.

Ciliberto, F., A. Miller, H. S. Nielsen, and M. Simonsen: Playing the Fertility Game at Work.

Simonsen, M., L. Skipper and J. A. Smith: On the Quantity-Quality Trade-off.

Simonsen, M. and L. Skipper (2008): The Incidence and Intensity of Formal Life Long Learning. Economics WP No. 2008-7, University of Aarhus.


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