Research

Working papers

Why Are the Wealthiest So Wealthy? New Longitudinal Empirical Evidence and Implications for Theories of Wealth Inequality (June 2024) with Joachim Hubmer, Serdar Ozkan, and Sergio Salgado, R&R in Econometrica

European Commission, Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion, Dekkers, G., Halvorsen, E., Kruse, H. et al., Long term projections of pension adequacy in a selection of countries – Report produced in the context of the 2024 pension adequacy report, Publications Office of the European Union, 2024

Work in progress

Why are the Wealthiest So Wealthy? A Quantitative Investigation with Joachim Hubmer, Serdar Ozkan, and Sergio Salgado

Spousal Labor Response to Primary Income Risk: Identification and Heterogeneity with Yongsung Chang and Marios Karabarbounis

The Norwegian Annuity Puzzle - Pension Claiming and Time Preference with Herman Kruse

Published articles

Social security pension and the effect on household saving, with Zhiyang Jia, Herman Kruse, and Trond Vigtel, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 126(3), 529-560, 2024.

Dissecting Idiosyncratic Earnings Risk, with Hans Holter, Serdar Ozkan, and Kjetil Storesletten, Journal of the European Economic Association, 22(2), 617–668, 2024.

Earnings Dynamics and Its Intergenerational Transmission: Evidence from Norway with Serdar Ozkan and Sergio Salgado, Quantitative Economics 13(4), 1707-1746, 2022.

Distributional Effects of a Wealth Tax under Lifetime-Dynastic Income Concepts, with Thor O. Thoresen, Scandinavian Journal of Economics 123(1), 184-215, 2021.

The Dynamic Cross-sectional Microsimulation Model MOSART, with Leif Andreassen, Dennis Fredriksen, Hege M. Gjefsen, and Nils M. Stølen, International Journal of Microsimulation, 13(1), 92-113, 2020.

Heterogeneity of the Carnegie Effect, with Erlend E. Bø and Thor O. Thoresen, Journal of Human Resources, 54(3), 726-759, 2019.

Closing the gender gap in pensions. A microsimulation analysis of the Norwegian NDC pension system, with Axel West Pedersen, Journal of European Social Policy, 29(1), 130-143, 2019.

Imputing consumption from Norwegian income and wealth registry data, with Andreas Fagereng, Journal of Economic and Social Measurement, 42(1), 67-100, 2017.

Inequality Comparisons in a Multi-Period Framework: The Role of Alternative Welfare Metrics, with John Creedy and Thor O. Thoresen, Review of Income and Wealth, 59, 235-249, 2013.

A Suggestion for Evaluation of the Redistributional Effects of Tax Policy Changes with an Application to the 2006 Norwegian Tax Reform, with Thor O. Thoresen, Erik Fjærli and Erlend E. Bø, Public Finance Review, 40, 303 - 338, 2012

Parents' Desire to Make Equal Inter Vivos Transfers, with Thor O. Thoresen, CESifo Economic Studies, 57, 121-155, 2011

Additional articles and reports (in Norwegian)

Kapittel 6. Pensjonssystemet - hvor skal vi? i Økonomiske analyser 1/2024 - Utsyn over året 2023

Pensjonsformue i Norge 2019-2020 (med Aslak Hetland), Rapporter 2023/21, Statistisk sentralbyrå

Kapittel 7. Ulikhet i Økonomiske analyser 1/2023 - Utsyn over året 2022

Sosial bærekraft i systemet for alderspensjon (med Dennis Fredriksen og Nils Martin Stølen), Søkelys på arbeidslivet, 2022

Bidrar folketrygdens pensjonssystem til inntektsutjevning i et livsløpsperspektiv? (med Axel West Pedersen), Søkelys på arbeidslivet 2022

Pensjonsformue i Norge 2018 (med Aslak Hetland), Rapporter 2021/16, Statistisk sentralbyrå

Er familiesituasjonen en barriere for kvinnelig entreprenørskap? (med Arvid Raknerud), Magma 3/2020

Vi bruker boligen som sparegris, SSB Analyse 2019/34

Pensjonsformue i Norge 2017 (med Per Ove Smogeli), Rapporter 2019/28, Statistisk sentralbyrå

Beregninger av pensjonsformue (med Dennis Fredriksen), Rapporter 2019/29, Statistisk sentralbyrå

Fordelingseffekter av skattereformen i 2006 (med Thor Olav Thoresen, Erik Fjærli and Erlend E. Bø), Tidsskrift for samfunnsforskning, nr 3-2012.