Ingvild Almås is a Professor of Economics at Zurich University (UZH) and part-time at the Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholm University (SU).

Her main research focuses on gaining a better understanding of economic inequalities. Her research on economic inequality has been published in journals such as American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Econometrica and Quarterly Journal of Economics, as well as multidisciplinary journals such as Science, PNAS, and Management Science. In 2022 she was awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant for her work on inequality within households and household decision-making. Her main research efforts are now devoted to the large-scale research program Kizazi Kijacho, aiming to improve our understanding of household decision-making and the dynamic complexities in the child development process, and to evaluate and support the design of scalable models for child development, poverty alleviation, and gender equality. In her work at the LRF Center she focuses on Child and Adolescent Development, and Infant Nutrition.

She has the role as PI at the FAIR Centre of Excellence at the Norwegian School of Economics, an International Research Fellow at the Institute for Fiscal Studies in London, a CEPR Research Fellow, a member of the European Standing Committee of the Econometric Society, and a member of the European Economic Association Council. She has for several years served as an Editor and co-Editor of different journals, including the Scandinavian Journal of Economics.