Mathias is a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Economics at the University of Oxford and a Non-Stipendiary Research Fellow at Nuffield College. His research focuses on labour market inequalities, with work spanning gender and family dynamics, the long-term effects of parental death on children, and intergenerational mobility among immigrant and local populations. He uses rich Danish administrative and employer–employee data to uncover the mechanisms shaping earnings, opportunities, and socio-economic trajectories.
