Kjell G. Salvanes

Research Fellow

Norwegian School of Economics

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Kjell G. Salvanes received his Ph.D. in economics from the Norwegian School of Economics in 1988. He is currently Research Professor in Economics at the Department of Economics at the Norwegian School of Economics, and is the Director of CELE (Center for Empirical Labor Economics), and and co-director of The Center of Excellence, FAIR. He is a joint Managing Editor of The Economic Journal since 2012.

His main area of interest is in labour economics, focusing on issues of education and family economics.

He joined IZA as a Research Fellow in August 2002.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5788
Life-Cycle Bias and the Returns to Schooling in Current and Lifetime Earnings
Manudeep Bhuller, Magne Mogstad, Kjell G. Salvanes
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5369
Why Children of College Graduates Outperform their Schoolmates: A Study of Cousins and Adoptees
Torbjørn Haegeland, Lars Kirkeboen, Oddbjørn Raaum, Kjell G. Salvanes
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5362
A Flying Start? Long Term Consequences of Maternal Time Investments in Children During Their First Year of Life
Pedro Carneiro, Katrine Vellesen Loken, Kjell G. Salvanes
substantially revised and extended version available as IZA DP No. 5793
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5002
Education and Family Background: Mechanisms and Policies
Anders Björklund, Kjell G. Salvanes
revised version published in: E.A. Hanushek, S. Machin, and L. Woessmann (eds.), Handbook in Economics of Education, Vol. 3, North Holland: 2010, pp. 201-247
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4946
Under Pressure? The Effect of Peers on Outcomes of Young Adults
Sandra E. Black, Paul J. Devereux, Kjell G. Salvanes
published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 31 (1) 2013, 119-153
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4719
Valuing School Quality via a School Choice Reform
Stephen Machin, Kjell G. Salvanes
published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2016, 118, 3-24
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4130
Wages and Seniority When Coworkers Matter: Estimating a Joint Production Economy Using Norwegian Administrative Data
Christopher Ferrall, Kjell G. Salvanes, Erik Ø. Sørensen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3845
Education and Mobility
Stephen Machin, Panu Pelkonen, Kjell G. Salvanes
published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2011, 10 (2), 417-50.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3651
Like Father, Like Son? A Note on the Intergenerational Transmission of IQ Scores
Sandra E. Black, Paul J. Devereux, Kjell G. Salvanes
published in: Economics Letters, 2009, 105 (1), 138-140
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3561
Pennies from Heaven? Using Exogeneous Tax Variation to Identify Effects of School Resources on Pupil Achievements
Torbjørn Haegeland, Oddbjørn Raaum, Kjell G. Salvanes
published in: Economics of Education Review, 2012, 31 (5), 601-614
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