Address: Department of Economics, University of Chicago
1126, East 59th Street, Chicago, Illinois 60637
Email: [email protected]
Assistant: Jamie Temmer
Email: [email protected]
Date of birth: 12/14/1980
Citizenship: Norwegian
Permanent Resident of the U.S. (Green Card Holder)
The Gary S. Becker Distinguished Service Professor in Economics, Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics at the University of Chicago (at Chicago since 2014)
Senior Research Fellow, Research Department of Statistics Norway
Research Associate , National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
Faculty Director, Ronzetti Initative for the Study of Labor Markets at the Becker Friedman Institute
Public Economics, Labor Economics, Policy Evaluation
Ph.D. in Economics, University of Oslo, 2005-2008
2024 – 2026 : Principal investigator of grant (2419008), "Econometric Methods for Understanding Employer-Employee Data and Intergenerational Mobility", from the National Science Foundation ($428,460)
2024 – 2027 : Principal investigator of grant (344000), "Men without Education and Work", from the Norwegian Research Council ($600.000)
2021 – 2026 : Principal investigator of grant (314283), "Causes and Consequences of Labor Market Inequality", from the Norwegian Research Council ($1.3 million)