Marianne Simonsen is professor at the Department of Economics and Business Economics, Aarhus University and a research fellow at CESifo and IZA. She is also editor at Scandinavian Journal of Economics. Since 2018, she has been a member of the Independent Research Fund Denmark | Social Sciences' research council, and served as chair of the council in the period 2022-2023.
Marianne Simonsen's academic interests lie within family, health, education and labor economics. She currently explores how reforms of welfare policies affect adult labor market outcomes as well as children's wellbeing and human capital; the consequences of pollution for children's test scores; and how to support children who grow up in families plagued by substance use problems.
Marianne Simonsen teaches Econometrics of Policy Evaluation and Public Policy and Public Finance
