Arild Aakvik. Professor in Economics. Department of Economics, University of Bergen, Fosswinckels gate 14, N-5007 Bergen.

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1 Arild Aakvik Professor in Economics Contact Department of Economics, University of Bergen, Fosswinckels gate 14, N-5007 Bergen. Degrees Dr. polit. (1999) (PhD in Economics), University of Bergen. Five essays on the microeconometric evaluation of job training programs. Cand. polit. (1993) (Master in Economics), University of Bergen. Academic Positions Professor, Department of Economics, University of Bergen, 15/Sept/ Current : Research Fellow at Uni Research Rokkansenteret, 01/Aug/ /Dec/ : Associate Professor (tenure) (Førsteamanuensis), Department of Economics, University of Bergen, 01/Oct/ /Sept/ : Research Fellow at Uni Research Rokkansenteret, 01/Aug/ /Aug/ : Associate Professor (temporary) (Førsteamanuensis), Department of Economics, University of Bergen, 01/Feb/ /Sept/ : Research Associate (Forsker), Department of Economics, University of Bergen, 01/Feb/ /Des/2001. Pharmacoeconomics : Research Associate II (Forsker II), Foundation for Research in Economics and Business Administration (SNF), 01/Sep/ /Jan/ : Research Fellow (Universitetsstipendiat), Department of Economic, UiB, 01/Sept/ /Aug/1998. Larger external financed project Project leader (principal investigator): VAM: Aging, health and labour market participation Uni Research Rokkansenteret. NFR prosjektnummer:

2 Project leader for pension research financed by AID, Pensjonsreform og seleksjon: Økonomisk tilpassing til opptent pensjonsgrunnlag i alderstrygda / Prosjektnummer Project leader for the econometric evaluation of the NAV-reforms (Module 6b), Participant in different CMI projects relating to health economics in Tanzania, Participant in different NFR projects, such as Velferdsstatsprogrammet, Familie, utdanning og velferd: Økonomiske perspektiv. Project leader for pharmacoeconomics at the University of Bergen Project leader for a major project at SNF, looking at the functioning of the labour market enterprises in Norway. Project period Main research interests Social Program Evaluation, Empirical Analysis, Econometrics, Labor Supply, Health Economics, Early Retirement, Pension Economics, Publications 1. Bounding a Matching Estimator: The Case of a Norwegian Training Program. Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 63(1), pp , (UHR Level 2 Economics). 2. A Low-Key Social Insurance Reform - Effects of Multidisciplinary Outpatient Treatment for Back Pain Patients in Norway. Journal of Health Economics, 22(5), pp , With Tor Helge Holmås and Egil Kjerstad. (UHR Level 2 Health Science). 3. Estimating the Employment Effects of Education for Disabled Workers in Norway. Empirical Economics, 28(3), , (UHR Level 1 Economics). 4. Skill Formation among Vocational Rehabilitation Clients - Public Policy versus Private Incentives. Education Economics, 11(3), , With Egil Kjerstad. (UHR Level 1 Pedagogikk og utdanning). 5. Estimating Treatment Effects for Discrete Outcomes when Responses to Treatment Vary: An Application to Norwegian Vocational Rehabilitation Programs. Journal of Econometrics, 125(1-2), pp , With JJ Heckman and EJ Vytlacil. (UHR Level 2 Economics). 6. Educational Attainment and Family Background. German Economic Review, 6(3), pp , With Kjell Gunnar Salvanes and Kjell Vaage. (UHR Level 1 Economics). 7. Transitions to employment from labour market enterprises in Norway. International Journal of Social Welfare, 15: , With Svenn-Åge Dahl. (UHR Level 2 Health and Social Science). 2

3 8. Patient involvement in clinical decision-making: The effect of GP attitude on patient satisfaction. Health Expectations, 9, pp , With Benedicte Carlsen. (UHR Level 1 Health Science). 9. Access to Primary Health Care and Health Outcomes: The Relationships between GP Characteristics and Mortality Rates. Journal of Health Economics, 25, , With Tor Helge Holmås. (UHR Level 2 Health Science). 10. Variation in practice: A questionnaire survey of how congruence in attitudes between doctors and patients influence referral decisions. Medical Decision Making, 28, pp , With Benedicte Carlsen and Ole Fridjof Norheim. (UHR Level 1 Health Science). 11. Does variation in GP practice matter for the length of sickness absenteeism? A multilevel analysis based on Norwegian GP patient data. Social Science and Medicine, 70, pp , With Tor Helge Holmås and M. Kamrul Islam. (UHR Level 2 Health Science). 12. Measuring heterogeneity in the returns to education using an education reform. European Economic Review, 54, pp , With Kjell Gunnar Salvanes and Kjell Vaage. (UHR Level 2 Economics). 13. Overworked? The relationship between workload and health worker performance in rural Tanzania. Journal of Health Economics, 29, pp , With Ottar Mæstad and Gaute Torsvik. (UHR Level 2 Health Science). 14. Do Collective Actions Clear Common Air? The Effect of International Environmental Protocols on Sulphur Emissions. European Journal of Political Economy, 27, pp , With Sigve Tjotta. (UHR Level 1 Economics). 15. Intergenerational Earnings Mobility Revisited: Estimates Based on Lifetime Earnings. Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 114(1), pp 1-23, With Øivind Anti Nilsen, Kjell Vaage, and Karl Åge Jacobsen. (UHR Level 2 Economics). 16. Prioritization and the Elusive Effect on Welfare A Norwegian Health Care Reform Revisited. Social Science and Medicine, 128, pp , March With Tor Helge Holmås and Egil Kjerstad. (UHR Level 2 Health Science). 17. Explaining changes in child health inequality in the run up to the 2015 Millennium Development Goals (MDGs): The case of Zambia. PLOS ONE. February With Peter Hangoma (first author) and Bjarne Robberstad. (UHR level 1 - Mathematics and natural sciences). 18. Productivity Dynamics, Performance Feedback and Group Incentives in a Sales Organization. Labour Economics, 46, pp , With Frank Hansen and Gaute Torsvik. (UHR Level 2 Economics). 19. Does Free Public Health Care Increase Utilization and Reduce Spending? Heterogeneity and Long-Term Effects. World Development. Forthcoming With Peter Hangoma (first author) and Bjarne Robberstad. (UHR Level 2 Development Studies). A total of 12 UHR level 2 publications. 3

4 Book chapters Late Careers and Career Exits in Norway, in H.P. Blossfeld (ed.): Globalization, Uncertainty and Late Careers in Society. London: Routledge, , With Kjell Vaage and Svenn-Åge Dahl. Estimating the Employment Effects of Education for Disabled Workers in Norway. page , in Badi H. Baltagi (ed.) (2004): Panel Data: Theory and Applications (Studies in Empirical Economics), Physica-Verlag Heidelberg. This chapter is a reprint of my article in Empirical Economic published in Three training parameters within a semiparametric factor model. Bulletin of the International Statistical Institute, 52, (Conference Special Issue), pp , With JJ Heckman and EJ Vytlacil. Norwegian journal articles and book chapters 1. Overgang fra attføring til arbeid. Sosialøkonomen 48 (4), 1994, Frafallsproblemet - Hvor blir det av studentene. I Ivar Nordmo (red.) Universitetspedagogisk utviklingsarbeid. UPED-skrift nr 2/03, Program for læringsforskning, Universitetet i Bergen, Velferdsstatens økonomi. Sosiologisk tidsskrift 2004; 12(1), Bokomtale. Arild Aakvik: Bokanmeldelse Peger Martin Lysestøl og Eilef A. Meland Velferdsstatens økonomi. Universitetsforlaget. Anmeldt i Sosiologisk tidsskrift 2004; 12(1), Tidligpensjoneringsatferd - hvilke forhold avgjør? Søkelys på arbeidsmarkedet, 1, 13-20, Fellesarbeid med Svenn-Åge Dahl og Kjell Vaage. 5. Inkluderende arbeidsliv og pensjoneringsatferd for eldre arbeidstakere, i Pål Schøne (red.), Det nye arbeidsmarkedet. Chapter 5, pp , Norges forskningsråd. Norwegian reports 1. Differansesannsynlighet ved attføring; suksess eller seleksjon? Hovedoppgave i sosialøkonomi, Institutt for økonomi, Universitetet i Bergen, Finansiering av trygdeytelser. SEFOS-notat 86, Lærlinglønn og utdanning av arbeidskraft: Hvorfor er det mer utdanning av lærlinger i Tyskland enn i Norge? SNF-arbeidsnotat nr. 49/1995. Fellesarbeid med Jan Erik Askildsen. 4. Bergensprosjektet Tilbake på jobb. Samfunnsøkonomisk evaluering. Rapport. Gruppe for trygdeøkonomi, Universitetet i Bergen Fellesarbeid med Espen Bratberg, Astrid Hanssen, Alf Erling Risa og Kjell Vaage. 5. Effekter av tiltakskjeder - en analyse av ressursfordelingen i attføringssektoren. SNFrapport 18/1997. Fellesarbeid med Egil Kjerstad og Svenn-Åge Dahl. 6. Empirisk analyse av spesifikke og generelle attføringstiltak. SNF-rapport nr. 56/1997. Fellesarbeid med Svenn-Åge Dahl. 4

5 7. Evaluering av Arbeidsmarkedsbedriftene (AMB) som attføringstiltak. SNF-rapport nr. 29/2000. Fellesarbeid med Svenn-Åge Dahl. 8. Legemiddeløkonomi. artikkel i HEB-Nytt nr. 1, Økonomisk evaluering av legemidler - En nytte- kostnadsanalyse av Visudyne-terapi. HEB-rapport Fellesarbeid med Astrid Grasdal og Oddvar Solli. 10. Endringer i regler for uføre- og alderspensjonister - hvordan påvirkes arbeidstilbudet for disse gruppene? SNF-rapport nr. 19/2001. Fellesarbeid med Afsane Bjorvatn, Tor Helge Holmås og Elisabeth Steckmest. 11. Kunnskapsoversikt om insentiv- og fordelingsvirkninger av trygdeordninger for midlertidig inntektssikring ved sykdom, rehabilitering, attføring og uførhet with Espen Bratberg, Svenn-Åge Dahl, Astrid Grasdal, Tor Helge Holmås, and Kjell Vaage (2007). 12. Seleksjonsproblematikk i nytt pensjonssystem - ein empirisk analyse av arbeidstilbod og tidleg uttak av alderspensjon. Teaching I have been teaching at the Department of Economics, University of Bergen since 2002 in courses such as ECON210 Undergraduate microeconomics (Velferd og økonomisk politikk) ECON220 Intermediate public economics (Velferdsstatens økonomi) ECON240 Statistics and Econometrics (Statistikk og økonometri) ECON340 Econometrics (Økonometri) ECON341 Advanced econometrics (Økonometri II) ECON342 Cost-benefit analysis (nytte-kostnadsanalyser) ECON343 Empirical research design (Empirisk forskningsdesign) I have also been involved in PhD courses in Microeconometrics, and different shorter courses at NAV, CMI and SNF. Supervision I have supervised 40 master thesis and 6 PhD thesis. 5