Thomas Høgholm Jørgensen

Thomas Høgholm Jørgensen is an Associate Professor at the Department of Economics within the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Copenhagen. He maintains affiliations with the Centre for Economic Behavior and Inequality (CEBI) and the Centre for Applied Microeconometrics (CAM).

Education

• PhD in Economics (2015), University of Copenhagen
• MSc in Economics (2012), University of Copenhagen
• Participated in Initiative for Computational Economics (2012), University of Chicago
• Visiting PhD Student (2012), University of Maryland
• BSc in Economics (2008), Aarhus University

Research Focus

His research centers on household decision making within dynamic economic frameworks, with emphasis on structural estimation and applied microeconometrics. Key areas include:

• Life cycle consumption patterns
• Household responses to children
• Joint retirement behavior of couples
• Parental leave policy design
• Risk-sensitive fertility decisions
• Dynamic programming applications

Teaching Experience

He teaches Dynamic Programming - Theory, Computation and Empirical Applications (2015, 2016, 2018, 2019) and Probability Theory and Statistics (2018, 2019). His research portfolio shows strong trends in computational economics and microeconometric policy analysis.

Collaborations

Active in international collaborations through his University of Maryland visiting position (2012) and NUMEDIG discussion group he founded (2012-).