Aline Bütikofer

E-mail:

Telephone:

+47 55 95 92 50

Fax:

+47 55 95 95 43

Title:

Assistant Professor, PhD

Nationality:

Swiss
Curriculum Vitae

Teaching languages:

English

Teaching areas/Courses:

Research areas:

Family and labor economics,  applied microeconometrics, economics of aging.

Research in progress:

• Welfare, Consumption, and Home Production of Elderly Households, with Michael Gerfin
• Time Allocation within Families. 

Publications :

• Semiparametric Base-Independent Equivalence Scales and the Cost of Children in Switzerland,  Journal of Economics and Statistics, forthcoming.
• Traffic Accidents in Switzerland: How Hazardous Are “High Risk” Groups? An Analysis Based on Police Protocols Code (with Thomas Gautschi and Dominik Hangartner), Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics, 143(4), November 2007, 397 – 424.

• Health and Retirement Effects in a Collective Consumption Model of Older Households , with Arthur Lewbel and Shannon Seitz.
• The economies of Scale of Living Together and how they are Shared, with Michael Gerfin.
• Revisiting ‘Mothers and Sons’: Preference Formation and Female Labor Force in Switzerland.
• Sibling Sex Composition and Cost of Children.
• Income Pooling and Sharing Among Couples in Switzerland, with Michael Gerfin.
• Glass Ceiling and Sticky Floors in Switzerland – Measuring the Representation of Women in the Wage Distribution.