I am an Associate Professor at the Department of Economics at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU). I received my BSc in Economics & Management from the London School of Economics & Political Science, and completed my MSc and PhD in Economics at the University of Essex. Before joining SDU, I was a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute.
I am a health economist working at the intersection of health, labour and development economics, with a particular focus on gender and inequality. My research leverages Denmark's population-wide administrative registers, alongside survey and biomarker data, and applies causal inference methods to ask how health shocks, working conditions and policy reforms shape health and economic behaviour.
Much of my current work examines how men and women differ in the way they use the healthcare system. In an ongoing project funded by the Danish Independent Research Fund, I study whether gender differences in healthcare utilisation and health behaviour persist—or even intensify—after an unexpected adverse health shock. A second strand, supported by a Carlsberg Foundation Semper Ardens Accelerate grant, investigates how unemployment, organisational change and job insecurity affect mental health. I also work on the health-economic consequences of ageing populations, including how age and proximity to death drive healthcare expenditure.
Alongside this health-economics agenda, my development economics research asks how the creative use of applied econometric methods can help policymakers address critical questions—such as child mortality and domestic violence—even in data-limited settings, so that credible evidence can inform policy where it is often hardest to produce.