Helena Skyt Nielsen is a professor at Aarhus University since 2007. She was previously employed as an assistant (1998-2002) and then associate professor (2002-2007) at Aarhus University. Helena Skyt Nielsen received her PhD in Economics from the University of Aarhus in 1999 for the thesis "Human Capital Investment in Zambia". Her contributions are published in Economic Journal, Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Development Economics, International Economic Review and other journals.
Her main area of interest is labour economics with a focus on economics of education and economics of gender and the family.
She joined IZA as a Research Fellow in April 2004.
IZA-Publikationen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7228
substantially extended version available as IZA DP#9279
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7164
revised version published as 'Mathematics and Gender: Heterogeneity in Causes and Consequences' in: Economic Journal, 2016, 126, 1129-1163
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6718
revised version published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2014, 49 (4), 839-871
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6714
substantially extended version available as IZA DP#8208
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6242
published in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2012, 1:6
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6092
Anette Primdal Kvist, Helena Skyt Nielsen, Marianne Simonsen
published as 'The importance of children's ADHD for parents' relationship stability and labor supply' in: Social Science and Medicine, 2013, 88, 30-38
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4267
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3785
published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2010, 2 (2), 185-215
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3120
published in: Economic Inquiry, 2012, 50 (1), 39-61
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2899
published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2009, 111(3), 457 - 486
