2026 Christian Bjørnskov: Political Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Political Science	49	257	227	6	6	226	12721
Economics and Finance	49	1432	1274	7	7	207	12544

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Denmark Leader Award
2026 - Research.com Political Science in Denmark Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Political Science in Denmark Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Law and Political Science in Denmark Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Political Science in Denmark Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Law and Political Science in Denmark Leader Award

Overview

Christian Bjørnskov is affiliated with Aarhus University in Denmark and conducts research primarily within the social sciences. Their work spans multiple subfields including sociology and political science, economics and econometrics, political science and international relations, demography, and modeling and simulation.

The research topics covered by Bjørnskov include:

Corruption and economic development
Political conflict and governance
Social capital and networks
Culture, economy, and development studies
COVID-19 epidemiological studies
Judicial and constitutional studies
Social policy and reform studies

Bjørnskov has published extensively, with notable papers including:

Did Lockdown Work? An Economist's Cross-Country Comparison (2021, CESifo Economic Studies)
This time is different?-on the use of emergency measures during the corona pandemic (2021, European Journal of Law and Economics)
Did Lockdown Work? An Economist's Cross-Country Comparison (2020, SSRN Electronic Journal)

Other frequently published venues for Bjørnskov include:

SSRN Electronic Journal
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
European Journal of Political Economy
European Journal of Law and Economics
Journal of Comparative Economics

Bjørnskov has also contributed to academic books, with publications by Cambridge University Press and University of Wisconsin Press. Titles include State of Emergency (2024) and Happiness in the Nordic World (2021).

The scientist collaborates frequently with a number of co-authors, including:

Stefan Voigt
Martin Rode
Andreas Bergh
Andrea Sáenz de Viteri
Niclas Berggren

Best Publications

Determinants of generalized trust: A cross-country comparison

Christian Bjørnskov

1179
Citations
The multiple facets of social capital

Christian Bjørnskov

744
Citations
The Happy Few: Cross–Country Evidence on Social Capital and Life Satisfaction

Christian Bjørnskov

664
Citations
Economic Freedom and Entrepreneurial Activity: Some Cross-Country Evidence

Christian Bjørnskov;Nicolai Juul Foss;Nicolai Juul Foss

592
Citations
Cross-country determinants of life satisfaction: exploring different determinants across groups in society

Christian Bjørnskov;Axel Dreher;Justina A. V. Fischer

431
Citations
Institutions, Entrepreneurship, and Economic Growth: What Do We Know and What Do We Still Need to Know?

Christian Bjørnskov;Nicolai Juul Foss

373
Citations
The bigger the better? Evidence of the effect of government size on life satisfaction around the world

Christian Bjørnskov;Axel Dreher;Justina Anastasia Valerie Fischer

362
Citations
How Does Social Trust Affect Economic Growth

Christian Bjørnskov

359
Citations
Formal Institutions and Subjective Well-Being: Revisiting the Cross-Country Evidence

Christian Bjørnskov;Axel Dreher;Justina A.V. Fischer

342
Citations
Exploiting the Poor: Bureaucratic Corruption and Poverty in Africa

Mogens Kamp Justesen;Christian Bjørnskov

326
Citations
Social Trust and Fractionalization: A Possible Reinterpretation

Christian Bjørnskov

308
Citations
How Strategic Entrepreneurship and The Institutional Context Drive Economic Growth

Christian Bjørnskov;Nicolai Juul Foss;Nicolai Juul Foss

295
Citations
How does social trust lead to better governance? An attempt to separate electoral and bureaucratic mechanisms

Christian Bjørnskov

234
Citations
Regime types and regime change: A new dataset on democracy, coups, and political institutions

Christian Bjørnskov;Christian Bjørnskov;Martin Rode

225
Citations
Historical trust levels predict current welfare state size

Andreas Bergh;Christian Bjørnskov

225
Citations
Social Capital and Happiness in the United States

Christian Bjørnskov

216
Citations
Is the importance of religion in daily life related to social trust? Cross-country and cross-state comparisons

Niclas Berggren;Christian Bjørnskov

213
Citations
Inequality and happiness: When perceived social mobility and economic reality do not match

Christian Bjørnskov;Axel Dreher;Justina A.V. Fischer;Justina A.V. Fischer;Jan Schnellenbach;Jan Schnellenbach

212
Citations
Is trust the missing root of institutions, education, and development?

Christian Bjørnskov;Pierre-Guillaume Méon

175
Citations
Does social trust determine the size of the welfare state? Evidence using historical identification

Christian Bjørnskov;Gert Tinggaard Svendsen

175
Citations
The productivity of trust

Christian Bjørnskov;Pierre-Guillaume Méon

169
Citations
How Comparable are the Gallup World Poll Life Satisfaction Data

Christian Bjørnskov

155
Citations
Do elites benefit from democracy and foreign aid in developing countries

Christian Bjørnskov

154
Citations
Trust, welfare states and income equality: Sorting out the causality

Andreas Bergh;Christian Bjørnskov

152
Citations
Corruption and Social Capital

Christian Bjørnskov

151
Citations
The context of entrepreneurial judgment: organizations, markets, and institutions

Nicolai J. Foss;Peter G. Klein;Christian Bjørnskov

133
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Stefan Voigt Universität Hamburg

Axel Dreher Heidelberg University

Niklas Potrafke Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Gert Tinggaard Svendsen Aarhus University

Arye L. Hillman Bar-Ilan University

Martin Paldam Aarhus University

Toke S. Aidt University of Cambridge

Justin Wolfers University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

Peter J. Boettke George Mason University

Sherman Robinson International Food Policy Research Institute

External Links

Personal website of Christian Bjørnskov

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