Jakob Søgaard

Jakob Søgaard

Research Fellow

Joined RFBerlin as a Research Fellow in December 2025

Research area
Public Economics Gender Inequality

About Jakob Søgaard

I am an assistant professor at Center for Economic Behavior and Inequality (CEBI) at the Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen. My research interests lie within the core areas of public and labor economics with focus on (complex) tax and benefit systems, labor supply, optimization frictions, income and gender inequality.

Discussion papers

April 2026

Expanding Paternity Leave: Effects on Beliefs, Norms, and Gender Gaps

Henrik Kleven, Camille Landais, Anne Sophie Lassen, Philip Rosenbaum, Herdis Steingrimsdottir, Jakob Egholt Søgaard