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I am a Professor of Economics at the Oslo Business School, OsloMet.
Background:
PhD in Economics, University of Oslo, 2015
Contact:
Email: anderskjelsrud{at}gmail.com
Phone: +47 932 66 338
Working papers:
"The Income Elasticity of Nutrition: Evidence from Unconditional Cash Transfers in Kenya", with Ingvild Almås & Johannes Haushofer, NBER WP (July-23)
"Mentorship and the Gender Gap in Academia", with Sahar Parsa, Dec-24
"Strikes and machines: Investment in the Norwegian inter-war period", with Haakon Gjerløw, Andreas Kotsadam, Kalle Moene & Magnus Rasmussen, Conditionally accepted in Journal of Economic History Pre-print
Publications:
"The Political Competition over Life and Death - Evidence from Infant mortality in India", with Kalle Moene & Lore Vandewalle, Pre-print, Appendix, Replication files
Journal of Human Resource, Forthcoming
"Wheels of Power: Can free bicycles for schoolgirls free their mothers?", with Shabana Mitra & Kalle Moene, Pre-print, Appendix, Replication files
Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2024
"Female employment and voter turnout - Evidence from India", with Andreas Kotsadam, Print, Pre-print, Appendix, Replication files
Journal of Politics, 2023
"Cooperative Property Rights and Development: Evidence from Land Reform in El Salvador: A Comment", with Andreas Kotsadam & Ole Rogeberg, Print, I4R DP (Mar-23) Replication files
Journal of Political Economy, 2023.
"Openness and the Welfare State - Risk and Income Effects in Protection without Protectionism", with Erling Barth, Henning Finseraas & Kalle Moene, Print (open access), Replication files, IZA DP (Jan-21)
European Journal of Political Economy, 2023
"Hit by the Silk Road - How Wage Coordination in Europe Mitigates the China Shock", with Erling Barth, Henning Finseraas & Kalle Moene, Print (open access), Appendix, Replication files, IZA DP (May-20)
Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2023 (SJE Price for best paper of 2023)
"Public work and private violence", with Kristin Vikan Sjurgaard, Print (open access), Replication files
Journal of Development Studies, 2022
"To adjust or not to adjust? Spatial price variation and the measurement of poverty", Print (open access), Appendix, Replication files, Additional data (Census of India),
Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2022.
"Estimating the welfare effects of public schools in rural India", with Debopam Bhattacharya & Rohini Somanathan, Print - Pre-print
Sankhya B: The Indian Journal of Statistics, 2021, Published online November, 2019
"A Behaviour-based Approach to the Estimation of Poverty in India", with Ingvild Almås & Rohini Somanathan, Print - Pre-print
Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2019, Published online October, 2017
"Targeting Poverty with Public Goods" with Rohini Somanathan, Pre-print
in A. Banerjee, P. Bardhan, R. Somanathan & T.N. Srinivasan (Eds.), 2017, Poverty and Income Distribution in India, Juggernaut Books, New Delhi
"Rags and Riches: Relative prices, non-homothetic preferences, and inequality in India", with Ingvild Almås, Print - Pre-print
World Development, 2017
Reports:
"Evaluering av ordningen med allmenngjøring av tariffavtaler", with Andreas Bendictow, Bjorn Dapi, Fernanda Winger Eggen, Hege Marie Gjefsen, Jonas Måøy, Maja Tofteng and Elin Svarstad (2021), Link
"Food Security and Child Malnutrition in India", with Rohini Somanathan, The International Growth Center (2017), Link
"Handlingsregelen og endringer i Statens pensjonsfond utland", SSB Økonomiske analyser (2017), Link
"Statens pensjonsfond utland og den strukturelle, oljekorrigerte budsjettbalansen i makromodellen KVARTS", with Joakim Blix Prestmo, SSB Notater (2017), Link
"Incorporating public good availability into the measurement of poverty", with Rohini Somanathan, The International Growth Center - Bihar (2013), Link
Popular:
"Økt barnedødelighet etter valget i India?", with Kalle Moene, Dagens Næringsliv (2024), Link
"Narendra Modis India skinner gjennom Erik Solheims øyne", with Kalle Moene, Dagens Næringsliv (2023), Link
"Misvisende om India fra Erik Solheim", with Kalle Moene, Dagens Næringsliv (2023), Link
"Tidlig juleferie = rødt nytt skoleår?", Drammens Tidende (2021), Link
"Malnutrition and the National Food Security Act", with Rohini Somanathan, Ideas for India (2017), Link
"Cash vs. Kind", with Rohini Somanathan, The Indian Express (2015), Link
"Hva er det med inntektsulikhet?", NUPI Hvor Hender Det (2014), Link
"Økonomisk nedtur i Vesten", NUPI Hvor Hender Det (2012), Link
"Eurosonen i krise", NUPI Hvor Hender Det (2012), Link
"Tallmanipulering i India?", Morgenbladet (2012), Link
Other:
Ph.D. dissertation: "Four essays on the measurement of poverty and inequality", (2015), Link