Several hundred experts in labor economics to NHH
Nearly 500 international researchers in labor economics are participating at the EALE conference at NHH this week.
Kjell G. Salvanes is a professor in labor economics at NHH, research director at CELE since 2012, and deputy director of the Centre of Excellence FAIR (Centre for Experimental Research on Fairness, Inequality and Rationality) since 2017.
Salvanes conducts research on a wide range of education, labor and health policy issues from returns to schooling, early investment in children and long term outcomes, inequality in income, health and education and intergenerational mobility. His current research projects involve studying the interrelationship between health and education, and the role of educational and health institutions on human capital formation and health outcomes. He received his PhD from the Norwegian School of Economics.
Salvanes' work has been published in numerous leading journals, including the American Economic Review, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Political Economy, Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Labor Economics, Economic Journal, Journal of Public Economics and The Journal of the European Economic Association. From 2012 he has been a Managing Editor of the Economic Journal.
He is a research fellow at CEPR, IZA, CEEP (LSE), CES-ifo and HCEO (university of Chicago). He received thePrize for Excellent Research at NHH in 2006. He is a member of the Norwegian Productivity Commission (2014-2016), and has been a board member of Norwegian and Danish Research Council in Education
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Nicoletti, Cheti; Salvanes, Kjell Gunnar; Tominey, Emma | The family peer effect on mothers' labor supply | American economic journal. Applied economics Volume 10 (3); page 206 - 234; 2018 |
Buetikofer, Aline; Jensen, Sissel; Salvanes, Kjell Gunnar | The role of parenthood on the gender gap among top earners | European Economic Review Volume 109; page 103 - 123; 2018 |
Huttunen, Kristiina; Møen, Jarle; Salvanes, Kjell Gunnar | Job loss and regional mobility | Journal of Labor Economics Volume 36 (2); page 479 - 509; 2018 |
Bhuller, Manudeep; Mogstad, Magne; Salvanes, Kjell Gunnar | Life-Cycle Earnings, Education Premiums, and Internal Rates of Return. | Journal of Labor Economics Volume 35 (4); page 993 - 1030; 2017 |
Pekkarinen, Tuomas; Salvanes, Kjell Gunnar; Sarvimäki, Matti | The Evolution of Social Mobility: Norway during the Twentieth Century | The Scandinavian Journal of Economics Volume 119 (1); page 5 - 33; 2017 |
Almås, Ingvild; Cappelen, Alexander Wright; Salvanes, Kjell Gunnar; Sørensen, Erik Øiolf; Tungodden, Bertil | What Explains the Gender Gap in College Track Dropout? Experimental and Administrative Evidence. | The American Economic Review Volume 106 (5); page 296 - 302; 2016 |
Black Youngblood, Sandra; Devereux, Paul J.; Salvanes, Kjell Gunnar | Does grief transfer across generations? Bereavements during pregnancy and child outcomes | American economic journal. Applied economics Volume 8 (1); page 193 - 223; 2016 |
Carneiro, Pedro; Løken, Katrine Vellesen; Salvanes, Kjell Gunnar | A flying start? Maternity leave benefits and long-run outcomes of children | Journal of Political Economy Volume 123 (2); page 365 - 412; 2015 |
Balsvik, Ragnhild; Jensen, Sissel; Salvanes, Kjell Gunnar | Made in China, sold in Norway: Local labor market effects of an import shock. | Journal of Public Economics Volume 127; page 137 - 144; 2015 |
Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Salvanes, Kjell Gunnar | Losing heart? The effect of job displacement on health | Industrial & labor relations review Volume 68 (4); page 833 - 861; 2015 |
acemoglu, daron; Pekkarinen, Tuomas; Salvanes, Kjell Gunnar; Sarvimäki, Matti | The Making of Social Democracy: The Economic and Electoral Consequences of Norway’s 1936 Folk School Reform | Journal of the European Economic Association; 2024 |
Dodini, Samuel Nathan; Lovenheim, Michael; Salvanes, Kjell Gunnar; Willen, Alexander L.P. | Monopsony, Job Tasks, and Labour Market Concentration | Economic Journal Volume 134 (661); page 1914 - 1949; 2024 |
Dodini, Samuel Nathan; Salvanes, Kjell Gunnar; Lovenheim, Michael; Willen, Alexander L.P. | Monopsony, Job Tasks, and Labor Market Concentration | NBER Working Paper Series; 2023 |
Black, Sandra; Devereux, Paul J.; Landaud, Fanny; Salvanes, Kjell Gunnar | Where Does Wealth Come From? Measuring Lifetime Resources in Norway | Journal of Economic Perspectives Volume 37 (4); page 115 - 136; 2023 |
Johnsen, Julian Vedeler; Ku, Hyejin; Salvanes, Kjell Gunnar | Competition and Career Advancement | Review of Economic Studies Volume 91 (5); page 2954 - 2980; 2023 |
Salvanes, Kjell Gunnar | What Drives Intergenerational Mobility? The Role of Family, Neighborhood, Education, and Social Class: A Review of Bukodi and Goldthorpe’s Social Mobility and Education in Britain | Journal of Economic Literature Volume 61 (4); page 1540 - 1578; 2023 |
Nicoletti, Cheti; Salvanes, Kjell Gunnar; Tominey, Emma | Mothers Working during Preschool Years and Child Skills: Does Income Compensate? | Journal of Labor Economics Volume 41 (2); page 389 - 429; 2023 |
Bütikofer, Aline; Dalla-Zuanna, Antonio; Salvanes, Kjell Gunnar | Breaking the Links: Natural Resource Booms and Intergenerational Mobility | Review of Economics and Statistics (45 pages); 2022 |
Bennett, Patrick Dylan; Bütikofer, Aline; Salvanes, Kjell Gunnar; Steskal, Darina | Changes in Urban Wages, Jobs, and Workers from 1958-2017 | CESifo Working Papers; 2022 |
Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Landaud, Fanny; Salvanes, Kjell Gunnar | Gender and Inheritances | AEA Papers and Proceedings; 2022 |
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Nearly 500 international researchers in labor economics are participating at the EALE conference at NHH this week.
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Over 11 per cent of Norwegian children grow up in poor families. ‘We need to increase child benefit. That would halve the proportion of children living in poverty,’ says NHH professor Kjell G. Salvanes.
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The Norwegian School of Economics will receive NOK four million from the Research Council of Norway to conduct research on how COVID-19 affects companies’ knowledge competence and their new digital everyday life.
Leading Norwegian economists have recently launched a platform for independent analyses of the Corona crisis. Katrine V. Løken and Kjell G. Salvanes from FAIR are two of the initiators.
New published paper by Aline Bütikofer, David N. Figlio, Krzysztof Karbownik, Christopher W. Kuzawa, and Kjell G. Salvanes in PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Science).
New working paper from Anna Aizer, Paul J. Devereux and Kjell G. Salvanes, titled "Grandparents, Moms, or Dads? Why Children of Teen Mothers Do Worse in Life"
New published paper by Aline Bütikofer, Eirin Mølland and Kjell G. Salvanes, titled "Childhood nutrition and labor market outcomes: Evidence from a school breakfast program" in the Journal of Public Economics.
New working paper, "Breaking the Links: Natural Resource Booms and Intergenerational Mobility", by Aline Bütikofer, Antonio Dalla-Zuanna and Kjell G. Salvanes.
New working paper by Pedro Carneiro (University College London), Kai Liu (University of Cambridge) and Kjell G. Salvanes: "The Supply of Skill and Endogenous Technical Change: Evidence From a College Expansion Reform".
Intergenerational mobility, early health shocks and public policy