Kristian Urup Olesen Larsen

kuol@econ.ku.dk

I am a postdoctoral researcher in Economics at the research center CEBI at the Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen.

Education

• 2023PhD in Economics, Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen.

  Thesis: Gender Inequality, Labor Supply and New Structural Methods

• 2021MSc in Economics, Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen.

  Thesis: Child Penalties in Labor Returns? Evidence from Linked Survey and Administrative Data

• 2017BSc in Economics, Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen.

  Thesis: Does Displacement Effects Persist to the Next Generation? Evidence from Danish Childrens Performance in Primary School Exams

Research

• Working Paper Micro vs. Macro Labor Supply Elasticities: The Role of Dynamic Returns to Effort
  With Henrik Kleven, Claus Thustrup Kreiner, and Jakob Egholt Søgaard
• Working Paper The Cohabitation Penalty
• Working Paper Using Reinforcement Learning for Solving Dynamic Discrete-time Problems in Economics
  With Joachim Kahr Rasmussen. Draft Available upon request

Teaching

I have taught as a Seminar Coordinator and TA in a number of courses with varying level, teaching how machine learning can be used in the social sciences. Topics covered include basic python, web scraping, machine learning, data visualization, deep learning, geograpical data, social networks and various other bits of data science.

• 2021 Seminar: Applications of Machine Learning in Economics (MSc)
• 2020 Social Data Science: Machine learning & Econometrics (MSc/PhD)
• 2019 Social Data Science (summer school, MSc/BSc)
• 2018 Topics in Social Data Science (PhD/MSc/BSc)
• 2018 Social Data Science (summer school, MSc/BSc)