Research focuses

Applied Microeconomics; Economics of Education, Public Policy, Family Economics, Behavioral Economics

Curriculum vitae

Employment:

• Current employment: Assistant Professor in Applied Economics (Department of Economics, University of Cologne)
• 2024 Postdoctoral Researcher (The Frisch Centre Oslo)
• 2017-2024 Doctoral Fellow and Research Fellow (University of Oslo)
• 2016-2017 Junior Technical Officer International Labor Organization ((ILO) Geneva)
• 2012-2014 Research assistant Centre for Social Policy Research (University of Bremen)

Education:

• 2017-2024 PhD in Economics (University of Oslo)
• 2014-2016 Master of Research (Political Economy, University of Essex)
• 2011-2024 Bachelor (University of Bremen and Scinces Po Bordeaux)

Selected publications

Working papers

• It’s All About What You Learn. Isolating the Human Capital Component in the Returns to Higher Education. Job Market Paper.
• Excessive Pay is Not About the Numbers. How Power Abuse Erodes Inequality Acceptance. With Tora Knutsen.
• Catalysts of Change. How Local Political Autonomy Fostered Innovation and Informed National Policy in Early 20th Century Norway.

Work in progress

• Paternal Leave Quotas, Work Sharing in the Family and the Child Penalty. With Martin Andresen
• The right peers are not always the bright peers: The causal effect of academic and social background composition in the classroom on academic performance.With Karl Ingar Kittelsen Røberg, Øyvind Wiborg and Håvard Helland
• Child welfare office leader changes and the marginal effect of foster care placement. With Øystein Hærnes
• Family structure and the long-term effect of kinship foster parents. With Simon Bensnes, Nina Drange and Øystein Hærnes