Anna Piil Damm
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View article: On the determinants of residential segregation of immigrants and descendants
On the determinants of residential segregation of immigrants and descendants Open
We analyse the determinants of ethnic residential segregation using full population data from Denmark during 1985–2015. Exploiting within municipality variation from policy reforms, we find that higher income among immigrants and descendan…
View article: Lowering the Minimum Age of Criminal Responsibility: Consequences for Juvenile Crime
Lowering the Minimum Age of Criminal Responsibility: Consequences for Juvenile Crime Open
Objectives The questions of when and how society should sanction juvenile offenders are subject to ongoing political and scientific debates. In this study, we use a policy reform that lowered the minimum age of criminal responsibility from…
View article: Neighborhood social composition and refugee mental health – quasi-experimental evidence of associations from a Danish population register study
Neighborhood social composition and refugee mental health – quasi-experimental evidence of associations from a Danish population register study Open
Background Refugees are at an elevated risk of some mental disorders with studies highlighting the contributing role of post-migration factors. Studies of migrant groups show neighborhood social composition, such as ethnic density, to be i…
View article: Duration of Mentoring Relationship Predicts Child Well-Being: Evidence from a Danish Community-Based Mentoring Program
Duration of Mentoring Relationship Predicts Child Well-Being: Evidence from a Danish Community-Based Mentoring Program Open
While a substantial body of literature suggests that lasting community mentoring relationships can have a range of positive effects on youths, little is known about these effects in the Nordic welfare context, where community mentees may h…
View article: Academic achievement and wellbeing of dual language learners: Evidence from a busing program
Academic achievement and wellbeing of dual language learners: Evidence from a busing program Open
We exploit exogenous variation from a school desegregation policy to investigate the determinants of academic achievement and wellbeing of dual language learners. The policy buses some school starters with low host-country language profici…
View article: Local labour demand and immigrant employment
Local labour demand and immigrant employment Open
This study investigates the effect of local labour demand on employment of immigrant workers. We address the challenge of location sorting by estimating the effects of initial local labour demand for refugees who were subject to the Danish…
View article: Prison as a Criminal School: Peer Effects and Criminal Learning behind Bars
Prison as a Criminal School: Peer Effects and Criminal Learning behind Bars Open
We investigate peer effects on crime-specific recidivism using register data for the entire Danish prison population. We find that inmates do not acquire new criminal capital in prison (no introductory peer effects). For certain types of c…
View article: Life Skills Development of Teenagers through Spare-Time Jobs
Life Skills Development of Teenagers through Spare-Time Jobs Open
We set up an on-the-job learning model to explain how spare-time on-the-job training affects life skills formation of adolescents. We obtain causal estimates by exploiting variation between employed twins and estimation of a value-added mo…
View article: Refugee Migration and Electoral Outcomes
Refugee Migration and Electoral Outcomes Open
To estimate the causal effect of refugee migration on voting outcomes in parliamentary and municipal elections in Denmark, our study is the first that addresses the key problem of immigrant sorting by exploiting a policy that assigned refu…
View article: Lowering the minimum age of criminal responsibility: Consequences for juvenile crime and education
Lowering the minimum age of criminal responsibility: Consequences for juvenile crime and education Open
This paper exploits a Danish policy reform combined with population-wide administrative registers to investigate whether being above the minimum age of criminal responsibility deters juveniles from crime. We study young individuals’ tenden…