Mircea Trandafir
Senior Researcher, ROCKWOOL Foundation
I am a senior researcher at the ROCKWOOL Foundation and a Research Fellow at IZA.
My primary research interests are in applied microeconomics, especially labor and health economics. My recent work looks into the health and non-health benefits of medical treatments, and into the link between health, both physical and mental, and the labor market.
Contact
Ny Kongensgade 6, DK-1472 Copenhagen, Denmark
Selected publications
Do medical treatments work for work? Evidence from breast cancer patients (with N. Meltem Daysal, William N. Evans, and Mikkel H. Pedersen). American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2025.
Spillover effects of early-life medical interventions (with N. Meltem Daysal, Marianne Simonsen, and Sanni Breining). Review of Economics and Statistics, 2022.
Saving lives at birth: The impact of home births on infant outcomes (with N. Meltem Daysal and Reyn van Ewijk). American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2015.
Recent working papers
Randomized to opportunity: Measuring place effects for refugee children (with N. Meltem Daysal, Joseph J. Doyle, Jr., Naeim S. Samandari, and Emil A. L. Simonsen). September 2026. Submitted.
The labor market impacts of GLP-1s (with N. Meltem Daysal, Camille Fredrickson, Ida Lykke Kristiansen, and Jonathan Zhang). July 2026. Conditionally accepted at American Economic Review: Insights.
Employee health and firm performance (with Daniel A. Rettl and Alexander Schandlbauer). April 2026. Accepted at Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis.