Kjell Gunnar Salvanes

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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

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Selected publications

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
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
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
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
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
Buetikofer, Aline; Mølland, Eirin; Salvanes, Kjell Gunnar	Childhood nutrition and labor market outcomes: Evidence from a school breakfast program.	Journal of Public Economics Volume 168; page 62 - 80; 2018
Figlio, David; Karbownik, Krzysztof; Salvanes, Kjell Gunnar	The Promise of Administrative Data in Education Research	Education Finance and Policy Volume 12 (2); page 129 - 136; 2017
Almås, Ingvild; Cappelen, Alexander Wright; Salvanes, Kjell Gunnar; Sørensen, Erik Øiolf; Tungodden, Bertil	Fairness and family background	Politics, Philosophy and Economics Volume 16 (2); page 117 - 131; 2016
Mausethagen, Sølvi; Askling, Berit; Dahl, Thomas; Heggen, Kåre; Kulbrandstad, Lise Iversen; Lauvdal, Torunn; Qvortrup, Lars; Salvanes, Kjell Gunnar; Skagen, Kaare; Skrøvset, Siw; Thue, Fredrik	Om lærerrollen. Et kunnskapsgrunnlag.	Fagbokforlaget; 2016
Almås, Ingvild; Cappelen, Alexander Wright; Salvanes, Kjell Gunnar; Sørensen, Erik Øiolf; Tungodden, Bertil	Willingness to compete: Family matters	Management science Volume 62 (8); page 2149 - 2162; 2016
Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Salvanes, Kjell Gunnar	Healthy(?), wealthy, and wise: Birth order and adult health	Economics and Human Biology Volume 23; page 27 - 45; 2016

More publications in Cristin

Research in progress

"Life cycle earnings, Education premiums and Internal rates of return" (with Manudeep Bhuller and Magne Mogstad). NBER Working Paper 20250. Submitted. Forthcoming Journal of Labor Economics.
“Worker Displacement and Regional Mobility”, (Coauthors: Kristiina Huttunen and Jarle Møen), Forthcoming Journal of Labor Economics.
“This Is Only a Test? Long-Run Impacts of Prenatal Exposure to Radioactive Downfall from Nuclear Weapon Testing” (with Sandy Black, Aline Butikofer, Paul Devereux). Under revision for Journal of Political Economy.
“Intergenerational Transmission, Human Capital Formation and the Timing of Parental Income” (with Emma Tominey, Italo Lopez-Garcia, and Pedro Carneiro). Under revision for Journal of Political Economy
"Disease Control and Inequality Reduction: Evidence from a Tuberculosis Testing and Vaccination Campaign" (with Aline Bütikofer). Under revision for Review of Economic Studies.
"What explains the gender gap among top earners?" (with Aline Bütikofer and Sissel Jensen). Under revision for The European Economic Review.
Long Term Consequences of Access to Well-child Visits" (with Aline Bütikofer and Katrine Vellesen Løken). Submitted.
"Causes and Consequences of Biased Grading in School" (with L. Andersland, S. Firpo and M. Mogstad). Work in progress.
"Supply of Skills and Endogenous Technical Change: Evidence from a College Expansion Reform" (with Pedro Carneiro and Kai Liu). Work in progress.
"Education, Income Dynamics, and Life-Cycle Inequality" (with M. Mogstad and K. Liu). Work in progress.
"Childhood Nutrition and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from a School Breakfast Program (with Aline Bütikofer and Eirin Mølland). Submitted.
"Natural Resource Booms and Intergenerational Mobility" (with Aline Bütikofer and Antonio Dalla-Zuanna). Work in progress.

Teaching areas

Personnel Economics

Dissemination

Economists with platform for independent analyses of the Corona crisis

7 April 2020

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.

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).