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Jo Thori Lind
Personal information
Nationality: Norwegian
Born: 21 Feb. 1974 in Lørenskog, Norway
Education
PhD, University of Oslo, June 2004. Dissertation Division and distribution. Three essays on the
political economy of redistribution.
Cand.polit., economics, University of Oslo, March 2000
MSc, Economics, London School of Economics, July 1999
Cand.mag., economics, political science, University of Oslo, Dec. 1996
Baccalauréat, science (C), LEGTP Notre Dame, Fontenay le Comte, France, July 1993
Past and present academic positions
Associate professor, ESOP and Department of Economics, University of Oslo, September 2009-present
Senior Research Fellow, NUPI (part time position), January 2010-present
Researcher, Ragnar Frisch Centre for Economic Research, April 2009-August 2009
Post doctoral fellow at the Department of Economics, University of Oslo, October 2004-March 2009
Visiting fellow at Cornell University, November 2008.
Visiting fellow at CESifo, Munich, October-November 2007.
Visiting student, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2003
Research fellow at the Department of Economics, University of Oslo, 2001-2004
Economist at the Research Department, Statistics Norway, 1999-2001.
Other affiliations
Center for the Study of Civil War (CSCW) at PRIO, 2004-present
Equality, Social Organization and Performance (ESOP), 2007-present
CESifo Research Network (fellow), 2008-present
Languages
Norwegian: mother tongue
English: fluent written and spoken
French: fluent written and spoken
German: some knowledge
Other qualifications
Basic pedagogical competence (Pedagogisk basiskompetanse)
Proficiency in Stata, Matlab, Python, Ox, LaTeX, ArcGIS, and several other software platforms
Publications
“Group structure and public goods provision in heterogeneous societies.” Forthcoming in Journal of
Public Economic Theory.
“Opium for the masses? Conflict-induced narcotics production in Afghanistan.” Review of Economics
and Statistics 96(5): 949-966 (2014) (with K. Moene and F. Willumsen)
“Miserly developments.” Journal of Development Studies 47(9): 1332-52 (2011) (with K. Moene)
“Are nurses more altruistic than real estate agents?” Journal of Economic Psychology 32: 818-31
(2011) (with K. Jacobsen, K. Eika, L. Helland, and K. Nyborg)
“Playing with the Good Guys: A Public Good Game with Endogenous Group Formation.” Journal of
Public Economics 95(9-10), 1111-1118 (2011) (with K. A. Brekke, K. E. Hauge, and K.
Nyborg)
“Measuring unfair (in)equality” Journal of Public Economics 95(7-8), 488-499 (2011) (with I. Almås,
A. W. Cappelen, E. Ø. Sørensen, and B. Tungodden)
“Do the rich vote conservative because they are rich?” Review of Economics and Institutions 1 (2),
Article 5
“With or without U” Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics 72(1): 109-18 (2010) (with H.
Mehlum)
“Does permanent income determine the vote?” B.E. Journals of Macroeconomics 7(1) , Article 19
(2007).
“Fractionalization and the size of government.” Journal of Public Economics 91: 51-76 (2007).
“Religion, welfare politics, and church-state separation.” Journal of Ecumenical Studies 42(1): 42-52
(2007) (with D. L. Chen).
“Fractionalization and inter-group differences.” Kyklos 60: 123-39 (20007).
“Why is there so little redistribution?” Nordic Journal of Political Economy 31: 111-125 (2005).
“Repeated surveys and the Kalman filter.” Econometrics Journal 9: 1-10 (2005).
“Aggregation of utility and equivalence scales. A solution to the Pangloss critique.” Review of Income
and Wealth 49: 555-568 (2003).
Work in progress
“The political economy of beliefs: Why do fiscal and social conservatives/liberals come hand-inhand?” (with D. L. Chen)
“Knowledge is power. A theory of information, income, and welfare spending” (with D. Rohner)
“The inequality of equal mating” (with R. Aaberge and K. Moene)
“Rainy day politics. An instrumental variables approach to the effect of parties on political outcomes”
“Spurious weather effects”
Publications in Norwegian
“Gnierindeksen - et mål på verdens gjerrighet” (med K. Moene). In B. Halsaa and A. Hellum (eds.):
Rettferdighet, Oslo: Universitetsforlaget (2010)
“Den skandinaviske modellen og økonomisk ulikhet” (med E. Barth, I. Krueger, K. Moene og H.
Mehlum). Vedlegg 3 til NOU 2009:10 (Fordelingsutvalget)
“Samfunnsøkonomi” in E. Balsvik and S. M. Solli (eds.): Introduksjon til Samfunnsvitenskapene. En
Antologi. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget (2008)
“Ulikhet og økonomisk vekst.” RØST 2006-2 (2006).
“Hva blir konsekvensene av en flertallsregjering?” Økonomisk forum 2005-9 (2005).
Reports
“Fiscal Policy and Equity in Advanced Economies: Lessons for Asia.” EGC Report No: 2014/14 (with
G. Estrada, J. Angresano, N Määttänen, W. McBride, D. Park, M. Sato, and K. SvanborgSjövall)
“Norway, Asia and the Global Value Chains. Asia’s Growth and Norway’s Economic Links to Asia”
NUPI Report 2013 (with A. Melchior and C. M. Lie)
“Evaluering av tilskuddsordningen for organisasjoner for personer med nedsatt funksjonsevne.” Report
3/2006, Ragnar Frisch Centre for Economic Research (with R. Golombek).
Honours
His Majesty, The King of Norway’s Gold medal from the University of Oslo for the Ph.D. dissertation,
2005.
2004 EEA Young Economist Award
2002-03 Graduate Student Fellowship from the “Network on the Effects of Inequality on Economic
Performance”, MacArthur Foundation.
Refereeing
American Political Science Review, Annals of Applied Statistics, B.E. Journals of Macroeconomics,
China Economic Review, Economic Inquiry, Economic Systems, Economics & Politics, European
Economic Review, European Journal of Development Research, European Journal of Political
Economy, Forum for Development Studies, International Review of Economics and Finance, Journal
of Applied Econometrics, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Economic Behavior and
Organization, Journal of Economic Inequality, Journal of the European Economic Association, Journal
of Peace Research, Magma, MIT Press (book), Nordic Journal of Political Economy, Public Choice,
Review of Economic Studies, Review of Economics and Statistics, Review of Income and Wealth,
Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Social Science Quarterly, Southern Economic Journal, Tidsskrift
for Samfunnsforskning, Universitetsforlaget (book), World Development, Økonomisk forum.
Other professional duties
Editor, Samfunnsøkonomen 2012-present
Editorial Committee member, Journal of Peace Research 2012-present
Forskermøtet for økonomer (Annual meeting of the Norwegian economic association): Program
committee member 2006-2008 (head of committee 2008)