Professor, Deputy Head of Department Aline Bütikofer

E-mail: Aline.Buetikofer@nhh.no
Telephone: +47 55 95 92 50
Department: Economics
Centre: FAIR
Office: E229
Expertise: Labour Economics Tax and Public Economics Health Economics Children and Early Investment

Biography and CV Selected publications Teaching Dissemination Projects Video

BIOGRAPHY

Aline Bütikofer is a Professor of Economics at the Norwegian School of Economics. She received her PhD from the Department of Economics at the University of Bern in 2011. She is a co-founder of the Center for Empirical Labor Economics and since 2017 a faculty affiliate at the Centre of Excellence FAIR (Centre for Experimental Research on Fairness, Inequality and Rationality). Since 2020, she is a co-editor for the Journal of Human Resources.

She has contributed to a growing literature on long-term effects of early investments in children, with a focus on identifying causal effects of policies such as parental leave, infant health care, vaccination programs, school meal programs, and international treaties to ban nuclear weapon testing. In addition, her work analyzes the effect of medical innovations on productivity. Her work combines state-of-the art statistical analysis with uniquely detailed Norwegian register data.

Her work has been published in leading economic journals, including Review of Economic Studies, Review of Economics and Statistics, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Public Economics, and Journal of Human Resources. Her work has been widely disseminated in international and national media, including for example the New York Times, PBS, Scientist Magazine, Telegraph, and Dagens Næringsliv.

She received a Young Research Talents grant from the Research Council of Norway (Reducing Inequality Through Complementarities in Investments in Education and Health, 2018-2022) and she is the Project Manager of the RCN project Women in Economics Network from 2019-2022.

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Selected publications

Author(s)	Title	Publisher
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
Agrawal, David R.; Bütikofer, Aline	Public finance in the era of the COVID-19 crisis	International Tax and Public Finance Volume 29 (6); page 1349 - 1372; 2022
Schwandt, Hannes; Currie, Janet; Bär, Marlies; Banks, James; Bertoli, Paola; Bütikofer, Aline; Cattan, Sarah; Zong-Ying Chao, Beatrice; Costa, Claudia; González, Libertad; Gembri, Veronica; Huttunen, Kristiina; Karadakic, Rene; Kraftman, Lucy; Krutikova, Sonya; Lombardi, Stefano; Redler, Peter; Riumallo-Herl, Carlos; Rodríguez-González, Ana; Salvanes, Kjell Gunnar; Santana, Paula; Thuilliez, Josselin; van Doorslaer, Eddy; Van Ourti, Tom; Winter, Joachim; Wouterse, Bram; Wuppermann, Amelie	Inequality in Mortality between Black and White Americans by Age, Place, and Cause, and in Comparison to Europe, 1990-2018	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America; 2021
Bütikofer, Aline; Salvanes, Kjell Gunnar; Currie, Janet; Schwandt, Hannes	Inequality in Mortality between Black and White Americans by Age, Place, and Cause, and in Comparison to Europe, 1990-2018	NBER Working Paper Series; 2021

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TEACHING AREAS

Solving Economic and Social Problems With Big Data (ECN425)

Empirical Strategies for Casual Analysis (ECO433)

Dissemination

Norwegian infant mortality no longer dependent on income

NHH 30 November 2021 Labour Economics

Differences in infant mortality between rich and poor Norwegians have never been less pronounced than they are now, new NHH study reveals.

Building Bridges and Widening Gaps: Efficiency Gains and Equity Concerns of Labor Market Expansions

23 October 2019

New working paper by Aline Bütikofer, Katrine V. Løken and Alexander Willén, titled "Building Bridges and Widening Gaps: Efficiency Gains and Equity Concerns of Labor Market Expansions".

Women with a twin brother earn less than those with twin sisters

Video 19 June 2019 Economics Labour Economics

Women with a twin brother drop out of upper secondary and higher education more often than those with a twin sister, a new study shows. ‘Parents need to be aware of these consequences,’ says NHH Professor.

Evidence that prenatal testosterone transfer from male twins reduces the fertility and socioeconomic success of their female co-twins

12 May 2019

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).