Astrid Würtz Rasmussen

Postdoc

MSc (Econ), University of Aarhus, 2004
PhD (Econ), Aarhus School of Business, University of Aarhus, 2008

Research Interests

• Labour Economics
• Economics of the Family
• Education 
• Time Use in Households

Current Research

• Daycare and Children's Long-Term Outcomes (with Mette Gørtz, AKF, and Robert Bauchmüller, Maastricht University)
• Family structure and child outcomes (with Leslie L. Stratton)
• Immigrant children's cognitive outcomes and the effect of ethnic concentration in schools (with P. Jensen)
• Allocation of parental time and the long-term effect on children
• The Danish Education Registers (with Vibeke Myrup Jensen, SFI)  

Academic Experience

• Visiting Scholar at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA, 2009
• Post-doctoral Researcher, Dept. of Economics, Aarhus School of Business, Aarhus University, 2008 -
• PhD student, Dept. of Economics, Aarhus School of Business, University of Aarhus, 2005-2008
• Visiting Scholar at University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA, 2006
• Research Assistant at Centre for Research in Integration and Marginalization (CIM), Aarhus School of Business, 2001-2004
• Research Assistant at Centre for Corporate Performance (CCP), Aarhus School of Business, 2003

Publications

• Rasmussen, A.W. (2010), Increasing the Length of Parents' Birth-Related Leave: The Effect on Children's Long-Term Educational Outcomes, Labour Economics 17 (1), pp. 91-100
• Würtz, A. (2008), Child Outcomes - Parental Time Investments and School Characteristics, PhD Thesis no. 2008:3, Aarhus School of Business, University of Aarhus, Department of Economics

Working Papers

• Jensen, V.M. and Rasmussen, A.W. (2010), The Danish Education Registers, SFI Working Paper 03:2010
• Rasmussen, A.W. (2009), Allocation of Parental Time and the Long-Term Effect on Children's Education, Aarhus School of Business, Aarhus University, Department of Economics WP 09-22
• Rasmussen, A.W. (2009), Family Structure Changes and Children's Health, Behavior, and Educational Outcomes, Aarhus School of Business, Aarhus University, Department of Economics WP 09-15
• Jensen, P. and Rasmussen, A.W. (2008), Immigrant and Native Children's Cognitive Outcomes and the Effect of Ethnic Concentration in Danish Schools, Study Paper No. 20, The Rockwool Foundation Research Unit and University Press of Southern Denmark
• Würtz, A. (2007), The Long-Term Effect on Children of Increasing the Length of Parents’ Birth-Related Leave, Aarhus School of Business, Department of Economics WP 07-11

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