Ingvild Almås is a Professor of Economics, Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholm University (SU). She is currently a Visiting Professor at the Economics Department, Yale University (on leave from her regular position at SU). She is also a professor II at the Department of Economics, Norwegian School of Economics (NHH), and Principal Investigator at the Centre of Excellence FAIR (Centre for Experimental Research on Fairness, Inequality and Rationality).
Her main research focuses on gaining a better understanding of economic inequalities. Her research on Economic Inequality has been published in economic journals such as American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, and Econometrica, as well as in multidisciplinary journals such as Science, PNAS, and Management Science.
In 2020 she was awarded a highly competitive ERC Consolidator Grant for her work on inequality within households and household decision making.
Her main research efforts are now devoted to the large-scale research program Kizazi Kijacho aiming to improve our understanding of household decision making and the dynamic complexities in the child development process, and to evaluate and support the design of scalable models for child development, poverty elevation, and gender equality.
Almås serves on the Committee of Monetary Policy and Financial Stability at the Norwegian Central Bank. She is also a PI at FAIR center of Excellence at Norwegian School of Economics, an International Research Fellow at Institute for Fiscal Studies in London, a CEPR fellow, a member of the European Standing Committee of the Econometric Society, and a member of the European Economic Association Council. She has for several years served as an Editor and co-Editor of different journals, e.g., the Scandinavian Journal of Economics.
| Author(s) | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|
| Almås, Ingvild; Cappelen, Alexander Wright; Sørensen, Erik Øiolf; Tungodden, Bertil | Attitudes to inequality: preferences and beliefs | Oxford Open Economics Volume 3 (Supplement_1); page i64 - i79; 2024 |
| Almås, Ingvild; Attanasio, Orazio; Jervis, Pamela | Reply to: Comment on “Presidential Address: Economics and Measurement: New Measures to Model Decision Making” | Econometrica Volume 92 (4); page 991 - 993; 2024 |
| Almås, Ingvild; Attanasio, Orazio; Jervis, Pamela | Presidential Address: Economics and Measurement: New Measures to Model Decision Making | Econometrica Volume 92 (4); page 947 - 978; 2024 |
| Almås, Ingvild; Bold, Tessa; von Carnap, Tillmann; Ghisolfi, Selene; Sandefur, Justin | The macroeconomics of pandemics around the world: Lives versus livelihoods revisited | Journal of Development Economics Volume 163 (17 pages); 2023 |
TEACHING AREASDevelopment and behavioral economics |
New working paper by Ingvild Almås, Maximilian Auffhammer, Tessa Bold, Ian Bolliger, Aluma Dembo, Solomon M. Hsiang, Shuhei Kitamura, Edward Miguel, and Robert P. Pickmans, titled "Destructive Behavior, Judgment, and Economic Decision-making under Thermal Stress".
New working paper by Ingvild Almås, Johannes Haushofer, and Jeremy P. Shapiro in The National Bureau of Economic Research, titled "The Income Elasticity for Nutrition: Evidence from Unconditional Cash Transfers in Kenya".
New forthcoming paper in The Journal of Political Economy by Ingvild Almås, Alexander W. Cappelen and Bertil Tungodden titled "Cutthroat capitalism versus cuddly socialism: Are Americans more meritocratic and efficiency-seeking than Scandinavians?"
New published paper in The Economic Journal by Ingvild Almås, Alex Armand (University of Navarra), Orazio Attanasio (University College London) and Pedro Carneiro (University College London): "Measuring and Changing Control: Women's Empowerment and Targeted Transfers".
New published paper in Review of Economic Dynamics by Ingvild Almås and Åshild Auglænd Johnsen (Norwegian University of Life Sciences): "The cost of a growth miracle – reassessing price and poverty trends in China".
Ingvild Almås at the Department of Economics has been appointed full Professor at NHH.
In competition with 150 other strong research environments in Norway, the Research Council of Norway has now awarded NHH a Centre of Excellence.
The differences between people in the USA have never been greater. Over the past decades, the richest have become even richer. A new study shows that Americans accept these inequalities to a much greater degree than Norwegians.
Ingvild Almås of the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH) believes that incomes in poor countries are systematically overestimated in traditional economics research. She launches a new method for measuring income in the April edition of American Economic Review.
Temperature, behaviour and economic choices
Inequality and personal responsibility: The nature of inequality acceptance
New approaches to measuring inequality: From household decisions to global comparisons
"The PPP Approach Revisited: A study of RMB valuation against the USD" (with Mandeep Grewal, Marielle Hvide and Serhat Ugurlu). Forthcoming, Journal of International Money and Finance.
"A Behaviour-based Approach to the Estimation of Poverty in India" (with A. Kjelsrud and R. Somanathan). Forthcoming, Scandinavian Journal of Economics. Current version
"Measuring and Changing Control: Women's Empowerment and Targeted Transfers" (with A. Armand, O. Attanasio and P. Carneiro). Forthcoming, The Economic Journal.
"Rags and Riches: Relative Prices, Non-Homothetic Preferences, and Inequality in India" (with A. Kjelsrud). World Development, 2017. Link
"The Cost of a Growth Miracle - Reassessing Poverty and Inequality Trends in China" (with Å. Johnsen). Revise and Resubmit, Review of Economic Dynamics.Current version
"Cutthroat Capitalism versus Cuddly Socialism: Are Americans More Meritocratic and Efficiency-seeking than Scandinavians?" (with B. Tungodden and A. Cappelen). Submitted. Current version Appendices Pre-analysis plan
"Lost in Translation: What Do Engel Curves Tell Us About the Cost of Living?" (with T. Beatty and T. Crossley). Manuscript.
"Economic asymmetries in partnering: Empirical facts and theoretical foundations" (with A. Kotsadam, E. Moen and K. Røed). Manuscript.
"Global Income Inequality and Cost-of-Living Adjustment: The Geary-Allen World Accounts" (with E. Sørensen). Manuscript.
