Historical Micro-Level Income and Wealth Data: Pilot-Study
Name of applicant
Casper Worm Hansen
Title
Professor
Institution
University of Copenhagen
Amount
DKK 1,750,000
Year
2023
Type of grant
Research Infrastructure
Summary
Denmark today looks radically different from in the early 20th century. Most people now live in cities, women work outside home, and we all live in a welfare state. To understand such changes, we need to study the ordinary people who brought them about. To make such study feasible, this project takes the first step towards digitizing income and wealth records of all Danes from 1903 and onwards.