Jakob Egholt Søgaard is a postdoc at the Center for Economic Behavior and Inequality (CEBI) at the University of Copenhagen. Previously he has held positions both in and out of academia. Outside academia, he has worked extensively on practical policy evaluation and policy formulation using both empirical methods and economic modelling on both the Danish Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Taxation. His research interests lie within the core areas of public and labor economics with focus on taxation, labor supply, optimization frictions and inequality.