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Research interests
Primary: Applied Microeconomics. Economics of Education, Public Policy and Inequality.
Secondary: Behavioral Economics
Working papers
It’s All About What You Learn. Isolating the Human Capital Component in the Returns to Higher Education. Job Market Paper
Excessive Pay is Not About the Numbers. How Power Abuse Erodes Inequality Acceptance. Working paper with Tora Knutsen
Education
PhD, University of Oslo, (2017- )
Master of Research Political Economy, University of Essex (2014-2016)
Teaching
Incentives and Motivation, ECON3810, 2020, 2021 og 2021
Poverty and Distribution in Developing Countries, ECON1910, Vår 2020 og Vår 2021
Statistics I, ECON2130, Vår 2018
Experience
- International Labour Organization (ILO), employment department, Youth Employment Programme. Junior Technical Officer (2016-2017)
- University of Essex, Graduate Teaching Assistant (2015-2016)
- Internship at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) at the department Forecasting and Economic Policy.
- University of Bremen, Research Assistant at the Center for Social Policy Research. (SOCIUM)
Supervisors
Jo Thori Lind and Andreas Kotsadam
Pre-Doc Publications
Obinger, Herbert, and Sonja Kovacevic. "Soziale Kriegsrüstung. Militär, militärische Interessen und die Anfänge des Wohlfahrtsstaates in der kuk Monarchie." PVS Politische Vierteljahresschrift 57.1 (2016): 116-146.
Bauch, Jonas, Paul Dyer, Drew Gardiner, Jochen Kluve and Sonja Kovacevic.
“The Impact of Skills Training on the Financial Behaviour, Employability, and Educational Choices of Young People: Findings from a Randomized Controlled
Trial in Morocco”, 2017, International Labour Organization.