Affiliation with AMID
PhD co-supervisor for Bjørg Colding

Curriculum Vitae

Education
1985 Master's Degree in Economics, University of Copenhagen.
1995 Ph.D. in Economics, University of Copenhagen.

Professional Experience
1995- Director of Research, AKF, Institute of Local Government Studies, Denmark.

1994-1995 Associate Professor, Department of Economics, The Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, Copenhagen.

1988-1994 Research Fellow and Senior Research Fellow, Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen. Macroeconomics and econometrics (especially estimation of rationing models).

1985-1988 Economist, modelling unit, Statistics Denmark. Estimation of consumption and housing investment equations for the Danish macroecono-metric model ADAM.

Referee
Scandinavian Journal of Economics (1993, 2003), Economic Journal (1999), Nationaløkonomisk Tidsskrift (2000, 2001,2002, 2003), Empirical Economics (2001), The Manchester School (2002), Labour Economics (2003), Research in Labor Economics (2003), The Research Council of Norway (2002, 2003).

Projects and research interests

• Effects of labour market programs for immigrants and other groups in the labour market
• The causal relationship between unemployment and health
• The effect of school resources on student outcomes
• Intergenerational mobility, primarily with respect to educational attainment
• Local public finance, public choice
• Neighbourhood effects for immigrants and other groups
• Econometric methods, especially applied micro-econometrics
  

Publications in the field of Migration Studies (2002)
In Danish

Heinesen, E. (2002): Effekter af boligmæssig segregering (Effects of social segregation in the housing market). Working paper no. 15, Academy for Migration Studies in Denmark.

Other Selected Publications

Browning, M. and E. Heinesen (2003), Class size, teacher hours and educational attainment. Working paper. AKF, Copenhagen.

Davies, R., E. Heinesen and A. Holm (2002), 'The relative risk aversion hypothesis of educational choice'. Journal of Population Economics vol.15, pp. 683-713.

Heinesen, E. (2003), 'Determinants of local public school expenditure: A dynamic panel data model'. Regional Science and Urban Economics (forthcoming).

Heinesen, E. (2003), Discontinuous effects of school district size on student educational attainment. Working paper. AKF, Copenhagen.

Heinesen, E. (1999), Den sociale arvs betydning for unges valg og resultater i uddannelsessystemet (Intergenerational mobility in educational choice). Working paper no. 2 (in special working paper series on intergenerational mobility), The Danish National Institute of Social Research.

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