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Mette Gørtz
Mette Gørtz
Research Fellow
University of Copenhagen
mette.gortz@econ.ku.dk External Homepage

Mette Gørtz is a Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics at University of Copenhagen. She received her PhD in Economics from University of Copenhagen in 2006. She has been a visiting scholar at University of Michigan (2005).

Her main research interests are family economics, health economics, labour economics and applied microeconometrics. Her research has been published in Economic Journal, Journal of Health Economics, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, and Demography.

Mette Gørtz joined IZA as a Research Fellow in February 2019.

IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16881
Daycare Enrollment Age and Child Development
Mette Gørtz, Vibeke Myrup Jensen, Sarah Sander
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16557
Does the Child Penalty Strike Twice, and If So Why?
Mette Gørtz, Sarah Sander, Almudena Sevilla
published as 'Does the Child Penalty Strike Twice?' in: European Economic Review, 2025, 172, 104942
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16300
The Education-Health Gradient: Revisiting the Role of Socio-Emotional Skills
Mette Gørtz, Miriam Gensowski
published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2024, 97, 102911
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16228
When Death Was Postponed: The Effect of HIV Medication on Work, Savings, and Marriage
Mette Ejrnæs, Esteban García-Miralles, Mette Gørtz, Petter Lundborg
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14874
Discrimination and Daycare Choice: Evidence from a Randomized Survey
Mongoljin Batsaikhan, Mette Gørtz, John Kennes, Ran Sun Lyng, Daniel Monte, Norovsambuu Tumennasan
published online in: Journal of Human Resources, 08 January 2024
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13378
Inequality in Personality over the Life Cycle
Miriam Gensowski, Mette Gørtz, Stefanie Schurer
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2021, 184, 46-77
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12999
The Wealth of Parents: Trends over Time in Assortative Mating Based on Parental Wealth
Sander Wagner, Diederik Boertien, Mette Gørtz
published in: Demography, 2020, 57 (5), 1809 - 1831
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11913
Academic Achievement and the Gender Composition of Preschool Staff
Mette Gørtz, Eva Rye Johansen, Marianne Simonsen
published in: Labour Economics, 2018, 55, 241 - 258
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