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
| Author(s) | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Bütikofer, Aline; Salvanes, Kjell Gunnar; Karadakic, Rene; Schwandt, Hannes; Currie, Janet; Bertoli, Paola; Cattan, Sarah; Zong-Ying Chao, Beatrice; Costa, Claudia; González, Libertad; Gembri, Veronica; Huttunen, Kristiina; Kraftman, Lucy; Krutikova, Sonya; Lombardi, Stefano; Redler, Peter; Riumallo-Herl, Carlos; Rodríguez-González, Ana; 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 |
| Carneiro, Pedro; Lopez Garcia, Italo; Salvanes, Kjell Gunnar; Tominey, Emma | Intergenerational Mobility and the Timing of Parental Income | Journal of Political Economy Volume 129 (3); page 757 - 788; 2021 |
| Hvide, Hans K.; Johnsen, Julian Vedeler; Salvanes, Kjell Gunnar | Parental age and birth defects: a sibling study | European Journal of Epidemiology (EJE) (0 pages); 2021 |
| Black Youngblood, Sandra; Devereux, Paul J.; Landaud, Fanny; Salvanes, Kjell Gunnar | Where Does Wealth Come From? | NBER Working Paper Series; 2020 |
| Aizer, Anna; Salvanes, Kjell Gunnar; Devereux, Paul J. | Grandparents, Moms, or Dads? Why children of teen mothers do worse in life | The Journal of human resources; 2020 |
| Black Youngblood, Sandra; Buetikofer, Aline; Devereux, Paul J.; Salvanes, Kjell Gunnar | This is only a test? Long-run and intergenerational impacts of prenatal exposure to radioactive fallout | Review of Economics and Statistics Volume 101 (3); page 531 - 546; 2019 |
| Buetikofer, Aline; Figlio, David; Karbownik, Krzysztof; Kuzawa, Christopher W; Salvanes, Kjell Gunnar | Evidence that prenatal testosterone transfer from male twins reduces the fertility and socioeconomic success of their female co-twins | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Volume 116 (14); page 6749 - 6753; 2019 |
| Buetikofer, Aline; Løken, Katrine Vellesen; Salvanes, Kjell Gunnar | Infant health care and long-term outcomes | Review of Economics and Statistics Volume 101 (2); page 341 - 354; 2018 |
| Aizer, Anna; Devereux, Paul J.; Salvanes, Kjell Gunnar | Grandparents, Moms, or Dads? Why Children of Teen Mothers Do Worse in Life | NBER Working Paper Series (25165); 2018 |
Personnel Economics
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".
New published paper in American Economic Journal: Applied Economics by Cheti Nicoletti (University of York), Kjell G. Salvanes and Emma Tominey (University of York): "The Family Peer Effect on Mothers' Labor Supply".
New paper “The Role of Parenthood on the Gender Gap among Top Earners” from Aline Bütikofer, Sissel Jensen and Kjell G. Salvanes published in European Economic Review.
New published paper in Journal of Labor Economics: "Job loss and regional mobility" by Kristiina Huttunen (Aalto University School of Economics and IZA), Jarle Møen (NHH) and Kjell Gunnar Salvanes.
Professor Kjell G. Salvanes receives funding from FRIPRO. The FRIPRO arena aims to promote scientific quality at the forefront of international research.
The Centre for Applied Research (SNF) at NHH has two Assistant/ Associate Professor positions in Behavioural Economics and/or Labour Economics affiliated with the FAIR Insight Team.
Intergenerational mobility, early health shocks and public policy
