Jo Thori Lind
Faglige interesser
Politisk økonomi, utviklingsøkonomi.
Undervisning
Høst 11: ECON4921 Institutions and Economic Systems
Vår 11: UTV3091 Avslutningsemne i utviklingsstudier
Høst 10: ECON4135 Applied statistics and econometrics
Høst 10: PECOS4020 Research methods
Vår 10: ECON4640 Political economics
Bakgrunn
Utdanning:
- PhD i samfunnsøkonomi, Universitetet i Oslo, juni 2004
- Gjesteforsker, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003
- Cand.polit. i samfunnsøkonomi (karakter 1.7), Universitetet i Oslo, mars 2000
- MSc, Economics, London School of Economics, juli 1999 (beste 11 kandidater)
- Cand.mag. i samfunnsøkonomi og statsvitenskap, Universitetet i Oslo, desember 1996
Tidligere stillinger:
- Forsker, Frisch senteret, 2009
- Post doc, Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo, 2004-2009
- PhD- student, Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo, 2001-2004
- Økonom i Forskningsavdelingen, Statistisk Sentralbyrå, 1999-2001
Priser
2005 Hans Majestet Kongens gullmedalje fra Universitetet i Oslo for PhD- avhandlingen.
2004 EEA Young Economist Award
2002-03 Graduate Student Fellowship fra “Network on the Effects of Inequality on Economic Performance”, MacArthur Foundation.
Personlig Hjemmeside
Publikasjoner
Jo Thori Lind, K. Jacobsen, K. Eika, L. Helland and K. Nyborg, Are nurses more altruistic than real estate brokers?, Journal of Economic Psychology 32, 818-31 (2011). Working paper version.
Jo Thori Lind, Kjell Arne Brekke, Karen Evelyn Hauge, and Karine Nyborg, Playing with the Good Guys. A Public Good Game with Endogenous Group Formation, Journal of Public Economics 95, 1111-18 (2011)
Ingvild Almås, Alexander W. Cappelen, Jo Thori Lind, Erik Ø. Sørensen, and Bertil Tungodden, Measuring unfair (in)equality, Journal of Public Economics 95, 488-499 (2011).
Jo Thori Lind and Kalle Moene, Miserly Developments, Journal of Development Studies 47 (9): 1332-52 (2011).
Jo Thori Lind Do the rich vote Conservative because they are rich?, Review of Economics and Institutions, 1 (2), Article 5 (2010).
Jo Thori Lind and Halvor Mehlum, With or without U? The appropriate test for a U shaped relationship, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics 72: 109-18 (2010). Associated Stata module utest
Jo Thori Lind and Daniel L. Chen, Religion, welfare state politics, and church-state separation. Journal of Ecumenical Studies 42: 42-52 (2007).
Jo Thori Lind, Fractionalization and the size of government, Journal of Public Economics 91, 51-76 (2007). Working paper version
Jo Thori Lind, Does permanent income determine the vote?, B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics: Vol. 7(1) , Article 19 (2007). Working paper version
Jo Thori Lind, Fractionalization and inter-group differences, Kyklos 60, 123-39 (2007). Working paper version
Jo Thori Lind, Why is there so little redistribution?, Nordic Journal of Political Economy 31, 111-125 (2005).
Jo Thori Lind, Repeated surveys and the Kalman filter, The Econometrics Journal 8, 418-27 (2005). Working paper version
Jo Thori Lind, Aggregation of utility and equivalence scales. A solution to the Pangloss critique, Review of Income and Wealth 49, 555-568 (2003), Working paper version (as Tout est au mieux dans ce meilleur des ménages possibles. The Pangloss critique of equivalence scales)