I'm an economist and a Senior Research Associate in the School of Economics at University of Bristol. I did my PhD in economics at the Department of Economics, University of Southern Denmark, finishing in 2020. I got my BSc. and MSc. in economics there as well. I'm a member of the European Social Science Genetics Network.

I research links between individuals' environment, genetics, and health, and I'm especially interested in the impact of early-life circumstances on later-life human capital and health. I've also worked on how to use machine learning to collect data from historical documents, and how neural networks can model time series. And long before that, I worked in web development and on early browser-based computer games.

I've been writing software for the past 20 years, and it is a major interest of mine. These days I'm especially interested in low-level optimisations, data-driven architectures, rendering, and game engines. I know R, javascript, and python really well, and am decent at C too.

You can reach me at e dot sorensen at bristol.ac.uk

Publications

• The Long-Term Effects of Early-Life Pollution Exposure: Evidence from the London Smog

  with Stephanie von Hinke

  2023, Journal of Health Economics.

  10.1016/j.jhealeco.2023.102827 arXiv Oct 2023
• Time series (re)-sampling using Generative Adversarial Networks

  with Christian M. Dahl

  2022, Neural Networks.

  10.1016/j.neunet.2022.09.010 arXiv Feb 2021
• Applications of Machine Learning in Document Digitisation

  with Christian M. Dahl, Torben Johansen, Christian Westermann and Simon Wittrock

  2022, Historical Methods.

  10.1080/01615440.2023.2164879
• HANA: A Handwritten Name Database for Offline Handwriting Recognition

  with Christian M. Dahl, Torben Johansen and Simon Wittrock

  2022, Explorations in Economic History.

  10.1016/j.eeh.2022.101473

Book chapters

• The prevalence, trends and heterogeneity in maternal smoking around birth between the 1930s and 1970s

  with Stephanie von Hinke, Jonathan James, Hans Sievertsen, and Nicolai Vitt

  2023, Recent Developments in Health Econometrics: A volume in honour of Andrew Jones. Emerald.

Working papers and on-going projects

• Universal investments in toddler health: Learning from a government trial

  with Jenifer L. Baker, Lise G. Bjerregaard, Christian M. Dahl, Torben S. D. Johansen, and Miriam Wüst. Submitted.

  IZA DP, June 2023
• The long-term human capital and health impacts of a pollution reduction programme

  with Nanna Fukushima and Stephanie von Hinke. Submitted.

  arXiv, Sep 2024 IZA DP, Aug 2024
• Good Nurses

  with Miriam Wüst.
• The long-term impacts of dietary policy: Evidence from the National Loaf

  with Stephanie von Hinke and Melanie Lührmann.
• Breastfeeding and genetics

  with Marco Franscesconi and Stephanie von Hinke.
• Long-term Health and Human Capital Effects of Early-Life Economic Conditions

  with Ruijun Hou, Samuel Baker, Stephanie von Hinke, Hans Sievertsen, and Nicolai Vitt.
• DARE: A large-scale handwritten DAte REcognition system

  with Christian M. Dahl, Torben Johansen, Christian Westermann and Simon Wittrock.
• Cold and Mortality in a Cross-Sectional and Lifecycle Perspective: Evidence from Competing Models

  with Christian M. Dahl, Martin Karlsson, and Nicolas Ziebarth.

  WP Feb 2019

Talks

• 2024: 31st European Workshop on Econometrics and Health Economics Rotterdam. Workshop on 'Causal methods in Early-Life Research', Bad Kreuznach. Workshop on 'Early Investments, Family Well-Being, and Child Development', Copenhagen. Workshop on 'Economics of Childhood Nutrition', IFS, London. UAM-UJI Workshop on the 'Economics of Health and Human Capital', Madrid. European Social Science Genomics Conference, Rotterdam.
• 2023:  Climate Change and Health Symposium, Bristol.
• 2022:  EEA ESEM, Milan. EcHO workshop, Royal Holloway. European Social Science Genomics Conference, Bologna. Econometric Society North American Winter Meeting, virtual.
• 2021:  Workshop on 'Methodological Advances in the Extraction and Analysis of Historical Data', virtual.
• 2020:  DIAL Workshop, virtual.
• 2019:  SSHA Annual Meeting, Chicago. Text Recognition Workshop, Lund University. Danish National Archive, Odense.
• 2018:  Essen Health Conference. University of Southern Denmark. University of Bristol.