My research focuses on labor economics and economic history, examining how social policies impact people’s lives. I study historical policies in the Nordic countries and apply modern causal inference methods to high-quality microdata. Recently, I have shifted towards policies targeting vulnerable populations.
I am an Associate Professor and Sapere Aude Research Leader in the Department of Economics at the University of Southern Denmark (Econometrics and Data Science), also affiliated with the IZA Network. I am a member of the Historical Economics and Economic Development Group (HEDG) and am affiliated with the Department of Economic History and the Centre for Economic Demography at Lund University, where I completed my PhD.
Last year, I received the prestigious Sapere Aude DFF Starting Grant for my project on Long-term Social Change through Normalization Reforms Targeting People with Disabilities and Their Peers (in collaboration with Christian Dahl, Joseph Doyle, Robert Franzese, and Petter Lundborg).
I teach Applied Econometrics and Machine Learning in Health Economics.
CONTACT
Please e-mail or call me if you have any questions or comments:
vola@sam.sdu.dk
+45-93 50 76 81