Signe Hald AndersenThe Rockwool Foundation · Research Unit
Signe Hald Andersen
Ph.D. Sociology
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Introduction
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Publications (34)
Population-level administrative data—data on individuals’ interactions with administrative systems (e.g., health, criminal justice, and education)—have substantially advanced our understanding of life-course development. In this review, we focus on five areas where research using these data has made significant contributions to developmental scienc...
Significance
We leveraged a three-generation approach in 2.1 million Danes to measure the transmission and disruption of multiple health and social disadvantages: poor physical health, poor mental health, social welfare dependency, criminal offending, and protective services involvement. Health and social disadvantages clustered within a small segm...
Objectives
To measure the effect of arranged marriages on criminal convictions among male ethnic minority youth in Denmark.
Methods
To identify the effect, we rely on administrative data from before and after a national policy reform in 2002 that restricted ethnic minority youths’ access to their most prevalent type of marriage until both spouses...
Previous studies investigate whether levels of welfare benefits reduce crime among the unemployed. The current paper expands this literature by testing whether the intensity of other welfare programs aimed at the unemployed affects their criminal activity. For this purpose, the study uses evidence from a Danish social experiment that randomly assig...
•We analyse the effects of unemployment on the likelihood of having a first and second birth in Denmark. The existing studies on this topic have generated contradictory results, and have made a weak case for the exogeneity of unemployment to fertility. We suggest that firm closures constitute an exogenous source of unemployment, and adopt firm clos...
Importance
The current focus on the association of negative experiences in early childhood with adverse outcomes later in life is based on limited empirical evidence.
Objective
To evaluate whether age at exposure to negative experiences in childhood and adolescence is associated with outcomes in early adulthood.
Design, Setting, and Participants...
Health and social scientists have documented the hospital revolving-door problem, the concentration of crime, and long-term welfare dependence. Have these distinct fields identified the same citizens? Using administrative databases linked to 1.7 million New Zealanders, we quantified and monetized inequality in distributions of health and social pro...
Most countries provide aftercare for foster care alumni either through specific targeted programs or by making foster care or related services available to the youth after they have aged out of foster care. Yet we have limited evidence of the effects of this type of care, especially from non-US contexts. My study tests whether an expansion of the D...
Objective: The objective of this study was to test how a father's paternity leave affects the within‐household gender wage gap among heterosexual couples.
Background: Previous studies focus on the actual number of days of leave the father takes, but if an important driver of the gender wage gap is the effect of parental leave on gender‐specific hou...
In this article, we exploit a Danish criminal justice reform that dramatically decreased the risk of incarceration for individuals convicted of some types of crimes to isolate how having a father who was eligible for a noncustodial sentence under the reform affected a child's risk of ever subsequently being charged with a crime. Specifically, we us...
BACKGROUND Over the recent decades and across most developed democracies, youth crime has been in steady decline, and declining youth crime now constitutes an important contemporary demographic change. Yet underneath this change lingers the question of how we should best grasp declining youth crime. OBJECTIVE To decompose declining youth crime in D...
This study investigates inter-generational transmission of foster-care, to test the extent to which an overrepresentation of children of foster-care alumni in a group of children in care persists after controlling for parents’ additional resources (such as criminal history, crime and labour market attachment). For this purpose, we use administrativ...
This article tests whether an alcohol treatment program for drunk drivers in Denmark increased the stability of their relationships with spouses or cohabiting partners. The treatment program, implemented in 1990, allowed a group of offenders to avoid prison and participate in a rehabilitation program. I use it here as a natural experiment, exploiti...
Compared with other types of out-of-home care, kinship care is cheap, and offers the child a more familiar environment. However, little is known about the causal effect of kinship care on important outcomes. This study is the first to estimate causal effects of kinship care on placement stability, using full-sample administrative data (N=13,157) an...
The authors analyzed whether the effect of marriage on recidivism varied by spousal criminality. For this purpose, they used propensity score matching and full population data from Statistics Denmark on all unmarried and previously convicted men from birth cohorts 1965–1985 (N = 102,839). The results showed that marriage reduced recidivism compared...
Objectives
There is a widespread belief among criminologists, judges and the like that criminals are better off serving non-custodial sentences instead of going to prison. However, empirical evidence of the effects of such other types of sentences is scarce. To help fill the gap, this paper assesses the causal effect of community service on post-s...
Research on the relationship between parental incarceration and foster care placement is limited in three ways: it (1) it
focuses solely on maternal imprisonment and provides neither (2) strong causal tests nor (3) tests of mediation. In this article,
we address these gaps by providing a rationale for how paternal imprisonment may increase children...
Research SummaryWe studied the effect on social welfare dependence of serving a sentence under electronic monitoring rather than in prison using Danish registry data and two policy shifts that extended the use of electronic monitoring in Denmark. We found that electronic monitoring is less harmful than imprisonment, at least for younger offenders,...
Objectives:
We used Danish registry data to examine the association between parental incarceration and child mortality risk.
Methods:
We used a sample of all Danish children born in 1991 linked with parental information. We conducted discrete-time survival analysis separately for boys (n = 30 146) and girls (n = 28 702) to estimate the associati...
A range of studies document the characteristics of children placed in out-of-home care, who experience many placement breakdowns
and unhappy reunifications with their biological families. However, few of these studies have documented the characteristics
of children who experience great overall placement instability—or complexity—throughout their en...
Many writers have expressed a concern that growing educational assortative mating will lead to greater inequality between households in their earnings or income. In this article, we examine the relationship between educational assortative mating and income inequality in Denmark between 1987 and 2006. Denmark is widely known for its low level of inc...
Despite its popularity, Gary Becker's model of the marriage market does not fully predict empirical correlations between married women's labor market participation and aggregate divorce rates. In this article, we show how a simple extension of Becker's model inspired by sociological theory improves the model's predictive power. We extend Becker's m...
A number of studies analyse the relationship between parents’ labour market status and various child outcomes, without considering
if the relationship is causal. However, within this field of study, the question of causality is of substantial interest,
as it shows if the unemployment makes the difference or if the child would have experienced the o...
This paper analyses if individual coping strategies explain heterogeneous effects of participation in active labour market programs (ALMPs) on reemployment probabilities for the unemployed. I use survey data linked with administrative data from Statistics Denmark and focus on respondents who are unemployed or participating in ALMPs (n = 1310). To a...
Previous studies find substantial community-level differences in out-of-home placement rates. Apart from geographical factors, however, it remains unclear which community-level factors explain differences in placement rates. This article extends previous research by analyzing whether community-level variations in placement rates are explained by fo...
While a range of studies investigate how a child's background characteristics affects his or her placement risk, only few have considered the possible stratified influence of these characteristics. This study contributes to this small literature by investigating if the influence from background characteristics varies by the child's social class mem...
Studies analysing the effect of the duration of sick leave on subsequent labour market outcomes do not consider the potential endogenous relationship between duration and labour market outcomes. This paper deals with this shortcoming by using a consistent estimator attained through Instrumental Variables methods for estimating the effect of the dur...
An analysis is conducted as to whether social class position matters for the negative change in subjective well-being experienced from unemployment. Theory on work identification and work conditions is used to formulate hypotheses on the differential impact on well-being of entering unemployment from different social classes. Data are analyzed from...
We propose a method for computing indicators of the relative success of local authorities at integrating new immigrants in
the labour market, taking account of differences in characteristics of immigrants and local labour markets. The indicator
for integration success is based on mean duration from date of residence permit to start of an employment...
This paper analyses the effect of participation in government training on subjective well-being. I use use Strandh's (2001) extension of Jahoda (1982) and Fryer's (1986) theories on the relationship between subjective well-being and labour market status as the theoretical framework. This extension suggests that participation in government training...
We propose a method for estimating indicators of the success of local authorities at integrating immigrants in the labour-market.
The proportion of time in employment of individuals is used to measure labour-market integration, and we correct for differences
in characteristics of immigrants and local labour markets using a two-limit Tobit model. Th...
Despite the strong and persistent influence of Gary Becker’s marriage model, the model does not completely explain the observed correlation between married women’s labor market participation and overall divorce rates. In this paper we show how a simple sociologically inspired extension of the model realigns the model’s predictions with the observed...
Projects
Project (1)
The objective of this multidisciplinary network is to bring together researchers from the Nordic countries with expertise in longitudinal child welfare research. For the last decades, policymakers, professionals and scholars all over the world have had serious concerns about both short and long-term outcomes of child welfare interventions. Empirical findings from longitudinal research challenge the common assumption in child welfare policy that societal interventions in the form of out-of-home care (foster care/residential care) make a significant difference for the life chances of children from adverse backgrounds, not least in the Nordic countries. However, decent comparisons between countries of outcomes from child welfare interventions are few and far in between. Network meetings would not only provide a forum for exchanging ideas and discussing research findings (particularly for junior researchers), but also for collaborating on at least one international publication with comparative analyses of outcomes for Nordic child welfare interventions. Comparative analyses of outcomes of child welfare interventions has a sound potential to profoundly increase Nordic knowledge about outcomes, risk factors and protective factors, and the role of national context.
