Elin Colmsjö received her Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Copenhagen in 2026. She has previously worked at the European Central Bank and has been a visiting researcher at UC Berkeley and Northwestern University. Her research focuses on the role of intergenerational financial transfers, labor markets, health, and crime. Her work has been published in the American Economic Journal and featured in popular outlets such as The Economist. In 2025, she was awarded the CEPR Household Finance Best PhD Student Paper Prize for one of the chapters of her dissertation. She has presented her work at institutions including the Federal Reserve in Washington, Cambridge, Duke University, King's College London, UC Berkeley, Northwestern, Paris School of Economics, and Sciences Po.
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Research interests:
Criminality,
Gifts and bequests,
Health economics,
Household finance,
Income and wealth inequality,
Labor economics
Some questions that Elin tries to answer in her research:
- What role does families’ financial support play in their children’s future choices and development?
- How does parents’ aging affect their children’s housing decisions and family formation?
- How do health shocks affect individual criminal behavior?
- How does workplace violence contribute to sick leave, and how does it affect employees’ health and finances?
- How do police decide which violent crimes to prioritize when operating under pressure?
