Ingvild Almås

E-mail:

 ingvild.almas@nhh.no

 

Telephone:

+47 91 72 77 21

Fax:

+47 55 95 95 43

Title:

Associate Professor, PhD

Nationality:

Norwegian
Curriculum Vitae

Teaching languages:

Norwegian, English

Teaching areas:

 
Courses NHH Micro (introductory).
Macro (introductory, intermediate, graduate).
Development Economics (intermediate, graduate).
Invited lectures
 		 Central European University, Budapest, Hungary:
Economics and Philosophy (graduate).

Research areas:

 Cost-of-living measurement, International Income Comparisons, Behavioral and Experimental Economics.
Main publications:
  • “International Income Inequality: Measuring PPP Bias by Estimating Engel Curves for Food”. Forthcoming in American Economic Review.
  • "Development of fairness preferences in children". With Alexander W. Cappelen, Erik Ø. Sørensen and Bertil Tungodden. Science, 328(5982),
    1176-1178, 2010.
  • "Measuring unfair (in)equality." With Alexander Cappelen, Jo Thori Lind, Erik Sørensen and Bertil Tungodden. Journal of Public Economics, 95(7-8),
    488-499, 2011.
  • "Older or Wealthier? The Impact of Age Adjustments on Wealth Inequality Ranking of Countries". With Magne Mogstad. Forthcoming in The Scandinavian Journal of Economics.
  • "Baby Booming Inequality? Demographic Change and Inequality in Norway, 1967-2004", (with Tarjei Havnes and Magne Mogstad). Journal of Economic
    Inequality    , 9, 629-650, 2011.
  • "Equalizing income versus equalizing opportunity -A comparison of the United States and Germany". Research on Economic Inequality, 18, 2008.
Other publications:
  • "Internasjonal handel -Gevinster til alle? RØST: økonomisk teori og politisk praksis, 2005, ISBN-82-996845-I-X (Norwegian only).
  • Den internasjonale debatten om pensjonssystemer. RØST: Pensjoner, 2003, ISBN-82-996845-0-I (Norwegian only).
Work in progress:
  • “Global Inequality and Poverty: New Evidence based on the welfare consistent Geary Allen World Account” (with Erik Sørensen). Manuscript, 2012.
  • “China's growth miracle - still awaiting the real Great Leap Forward?” (with Åshild Auglænd Johnsen). Manuscript, 2011.
  • “The Measurement of Poverty in India -- A Structural Approach” (with Anders Grøn Kjelsrud and Rohini Somanathan). Manuscript, 2011.
  • “Gender differences in the willingness to compete” (with Alexander Cappelen, Kjell Salvanes, Erik Sørensen and Bertil Tungodden). Manuscript, 2011.
  • “Global inequality trends. Maximizing the use of available data” (with Erik Sørensen). Manuscript, 2011.
Visiting student/scholar:
  • 2010/2011: Princeton University, Industrial Relations section (five months stay).
  • 2009: Yale University (Political Science Department, shorter stay)
  • 2008: Oxford University (shorter stay)
  • 2006: University College Dublin (shorter stay)
  • 2005: Cornell University (one year)
Prices and honors:  
2011:
  • Awarded the Ingvar Wederwang’s research prize for young researchers, (awarded every 5th year).
  • The Bank of Norway award for best PhD thesis in macroeconomics
    (awarded every 3rd year).
2010:
  • Nominated for the Distinguished CESifo Affiliate Award in Employment and Social Protection
Some Press Coverage:  
2011:


2010:
















2009:
Other involvments:
  • Researcher, ESOP, University of Oslo
  • Associate Editor, Law, Ethics and Philosophy
  • Part of The Choice Lab, NHH
  • CESifo network member