Ingvild Almås is a professor at IIES, Stockholm University. She is also a professor II at the Department of Economics, Norwegian School of Economics (NHH), and Principal Investigator at the Centre of Excellence FAIR (Centre for Experimental Research on Fairness, Inequality and Rationality).
Almås’ research is mainly focused on gaining a better understanding of economic inequalities. First, she has worked on the measurement of real income, inequality and poverty. Second, she has worked on sources of income inequalities with specific focus on gender inequality. Third, she has studied what kinds of inequalities adults, adolescents, and children are willing to justify and how well the actual redistribution is designed in light of these views.
Almås has published sole-authored as well as co-authored papers on income inequality in journals such as American Economic Review and Science. Almås was educated at University of Oslo and took her PhD at the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH) in 2008.
| Author(s) | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|
| Almås, Ingvild; Cappelen, Alexander Wright; Sørensen, Erik Øiolf; Tungodden, Bertil | Global evidence on the selfish rich inequality hypothesis | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Volume 119 (3); 2022 |
| Ghisolfi, Selene; Almås, Ingvild; Sandefur, Justin C.; Heitner, Jesse; Bold, Tessa; von Carnap, Tillmann | Predicted COVID-19 fatality rates based on age, sex, comorbidities and health system capacity | BMJ Global Health; 2020 |
| Almås, Ingvild; Cappelen, Alexander Wright; Tungodden, Bertil | Cutthroat capitalism versus cuddly socialism: Are americans more meritocratic and efficiency-seeking than Scandinavians? | Journal of Political Economy; 2020 |
| Almås, Ingvild; Kotsadam, Andreas; Moen, Espen Rasmus; Røed, Knut | The Economics of Hypergamy | The Journal of human resources (37 pages); 2020 |
TEACHING AREASDevelopment and behavioral economics |
New working paper by Ingvild Almås, Maximilian Auffhammer, Tessa Bold, Ian Bolliger, Aluma Dembo, Solomon M. Hsiang, Shuhei Kitamura, Edward Miguel, and Robert P. Pickmans, titled "Destructive Behavior, Judgment, and Economic Decision-making under Thermal Stress".
New working paper by Ingvild Almås, Johannes Haushofer, and Jeremy P. Shapiro in The National Bureau of Economic Research, titled "The Income Elasticity for Nutrition: Evidence from Unconditional Cash Transfers in Kenya".
New forthcoming paper in The Journal of Political Economy by Ingvild Almås, Alexander W. Cappelen and Bertil Tungodden titled "Cutthroat capitalism versus cuddly socialism: Are Americans more meritocratic and efficiency-seeking than Scandinavians?"
New published paper in The Economic Journal by Ingvild Almås, Alex Armand (University of Navarra), Orazio Attanasio (University College London) and Pedro Carneiro (University College London): "Measuring and Changing Control: Women's Empowerment and Targeted Transfers".
New published paper in Review of Economic Dynamics by Ingvild Almås and Åshild Auglænd Johnsen (Norwegian University of Life Sciences): "The cost of a growth miracle – reassessing price and poverty trends in China".
Ingvild Almås at the Department of Economics has been appointed full Professor at NHH.
In competition with 150 other strong research environments in Norway, the Research Council of Norway has now awarded NHH a Centre of Excellence.
The differences between people in the USA have never been greater. Over the past decades, the richest have become even richer. A new study shows that Americans accept these inequalities to a much greater degree than Norwegians.
Ingvild Almås of the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH) believes that incomes in poor countries are systematically overestimated in traditional economics research. She launches a new method for measuring income in the April edition of American Economic Review.
Temperature, behaviour and economic choices
Inequality and personal responsibility: The nature of inequality acceptance
New approaches to measuring inequality: From household decisions to global comparisons
"The PPP Approach Revisited: A study of RMB valuation against the USD" (with Mandeep Grewal, Marielle Hvide and Serhat Ugurlu). Forthcoming, Journal of International Money and Finance.
"A Behaviour-based Approach to the Estimation of Poverty in India" (with A. Kjelsrud and R. Somanathan). Forthcoming, Scandinavian Journal of Economics. Current version
"Measuring and Changing Control: Women's Empowerment and Targeted Transfers" (with A. Armand, O. Attanasio and P. Carneiro). Forthcoming, The Economic Journal.
"Rags and Riches: Relative Prices, Non-Homothetic Preferences, and Inequality in India" (with A. Kjelsrud). World Development, 2017. Link
"The Cost of a Growth Miracle - Reassessing Poverty and Inequality Trends in China" (with Å. Johnsen). Revise and Resubmit, Review of Economic Dynamics.Current version
"Cutthroat Capitalism versus Cuddly Socialism: Are Americans More Meritocratic and Efficiency-seeking than Scandinavians?" (with B. Tungodden and A. Cappelen). Submitted. Current version Appendices Pre-analysis plan
"Lost in Translation: What Do Engel Curves Tell Us About the Cost of Living?" (with T. Beatty and T. Crossley). Manuscript.
"Economic asymmetries in partnering: Empirical facts and theoretical foundations" (with A. Kotsadam, E. Moen and K. Røed). Manuscript.
"Global Income Inequality and Cost-of-Living Adjustment: The Geary-Allen World Accounts" (with E. Sørensen). Manuscript.
