Kjell G. Salvanes

E-mail:

Kjell.Salvanes@nhh.no

Kjell G. Salvanes

Telephone:

+47 55 959 315

Fax:

+47 55 959 543

Title:

Professor, dr.oecon.

Nationality:

Norwegian
Curriculum Vitae

Teaching languages:

Norwegian, English

Teaching areas:

Undergraduate:

Microeconomics, Labour economics

Master:

Econometrics, Labour economics, Personnel Economics

Doctoral courses:

Econometrics, Labour economics

Research:

Labour economics, Economics of Education

Research in progress:
  • “A Flying Start? Maternity Leave Benefits and Long Run Outcomes of Children” (with Katrine Løken and Pedro Carneiro), IZA DP No. 5793.
  • “Under pressure? The effect of Peers on Outcomes of Young Adults” (with S. Black and P. Devereux). NBER Working paper 16004. Resubmitted, Journal of Labor Economics.
  • "Life-Cycle Bias and the Returns to Schooling in Current and Lifetime Earnings" (with Manudeep Bhuller and Magne Mogstad), IZA DP No. 5788.
  • "Does money matter? The effect of child care subsidies on academic performance" (with Sandra Black, Paul Devereux, and Katrine Løken). Work in progress.
  • "How fast does a criminal burn out? The causal effect of education on crime-age profiles" (with Manudeep Bhuller and Magne Mogstad). Work in progress.
  • “The Timing of Income Shocks and Human Capital Development in Norway” (with Emma Tomney and Pedro Carneiro). 
  • “Worker Displacement and Regional Mobility”, (Coauthors: Kristiina Huttunen and Jarle Møen).
  • “Valuing School Quality via a School Choice Reform” (with  Stephen Machin), IZA DP No. 4719, submitted. 
  • “Wages and seniority when coworkers matter: estimating a joint production economy using Norwegian administrative data ,.” (Coauthors Christopher Ferrall and Erik Sørensen). IZA DP No. 4130. Submitted.
  • “Why children of college graduates outperform their schoolmates:A study of cousins and adoptees” (with Oddbjørn Raaum, Torbjørn Hægeland and Lars Kirkebøen). IZA DP No. 5369. Submitted.
  • “Pennies from heaven. Using exogenous tax variation to identify effects of school resources on pupil achievement”, (with O. Raaum and T. Hægeland). IZA Discussion Paper 3561. Resubmitted, Economics of Education Review. 
Selected publications:

 
  • “Priceless: The Nonpecuniary Benefits of Schooling” (with Phil Oreopoulos), The Journal of Economic Persepctive, Winter 2011.
  • “How Destructive is Creative Destruction? Effects of Job Loss on mobility, withdrawal and Income”, (Coauthors: K. Huttunen and J. Møen). Forthcoming Journal of the European Economic Association.
  • “Education and mobility”
    (with S. Machin and P. Pelkonen), IZA working paper, 2008. Forthcoming in Journal of the European Economic Association. 
  • "Education and family background: Mechanisms and policies" (with A. Björklund), Handbook in Economics of Education, 2010, 201-247.
  • “Too Young to leave the nest? The effects of School starting age” (with S. Black and P. Devereux), Review of Economics and Statistics, 2011, 93(2), 455-467.
  • "Measuring Heterogeneity in the Returns to Education in Norway Using An Educational Reform" (with A. Aakvik and K. Vaage). The European Economic Review 54(4), 2010, 483-500.
  •  “The more the smarter? Family size and IQ”, (with S. Black and P. Devereux), NBER working paper no. Journal of Human Resources, 45 (1), 2010, 33-58.
  • “Staying in the Classroom and Out of Maternity Ward? The Effect of Compulsory Schooling Laws on Teenage Births” (Coauthors: S. Black and P. Devereux). NBER Working Paper No. w10911. Economic Journal. 118 (2008), 1025-1054.
  • “From the Cradle to the Job Market? The Effect of Birth Weight on Adult Outcomes of Children” (Coauthors: S. Black and P. Devereux). The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 122 (1) 2007, 409-439.
  • “Employment Adjustment, the Structure of Adjustment Costs, and Firm's Size" (Coauthors: Ø.A. Nilsen and F. Schiantarelli). IZA discussion paper no. 920. The European Economic Review, 51 (3) 2007, 577-598.
  •  “The neighbourhood  is not what it used to be." (Coauthors: O. Raaum and E.Ø. Sørensen), IZA discussion paper no. 921. Economic Journal, 116 (2006), 200-222. 
  •  “The more the merrier? The effect of family composition on children’s outcomes” (with S. Black and P. Devereux), NBER Working Paper No. w10720.  The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 120 (2) 2005, 669-700.
  • "Why the Apple doesn’t fall far: Understanding Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital”, (with S. Black and P. Devereux). NBER working paper no 10066.  The American Economic Review, 95 (1) 2005, 437-449. 
  •  “Decreasing returns to education in Norway? Comparison across cohorts, industries and time.” Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Vol, 101(4), 1999. (with T. Hægeland and T. J. Klette).

Visiting professor/visiting scholar:

 

 

Simon Fraser University, 
SCANCOR-Stanford University,
Cambridge University
Academic year 2003/2004:
Department of Economics, University College London,  and
Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice (Cemmap)
Academic year 2007/2008:
Department of Economics, UCLA

Other interests/involvements:

 

 

Research fellow in the Research Department, Statistics Norway