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Arild Aakvik
| Stilling: | Førsteamanuensis |
| Kontor: | 414 |
| Adresse: | Fosswinckelsgate 14, N-5007 Bergen |
| Telefon: |
| Kontor: | (+47) 55 58 92 39 |
| E-post: | arild.aakvik@econ.uib.no |
Main research interests
- Social Program Evaluation (C31
and H43), Econometrics (C2 and C3), Early Retirement (J26),
Education Economics (I21), Health Economics (I12), Welfare Programs
(I38), Vocational Rehabilitation (J14), Environmental Economics
(Q5), Intergenerational Mobility (J62)
- My Erdös Number is 5
Teaching
- ECON 340 Econometrics
(Økonometri)
- ECON 220 Intermediate public
economics (Velferdsstatens økonomi)
- ECON 210 Undergraduate
microeconomics (Velferd og økonomisk politikk)
- ECON 290
Bacheloroppgave
- Health economics (Etter- og
videreutdanning i helseøkonomi)
Selected international publications
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papers:
- "Measuring Heterogeneity in
the Returns to Education in Norway." European Economic
Review. With Kjell Gunnar Salvanes and Kjell
Vaage.
- "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. With Tor Helge
Holmås and M. Kamrul Islam.
- "Variation in practice: A questionnaire survey of
how congruence in attitudes between doctors and patients influence
referral decisions." Medical Decision Making,
28, pp. 262-268, 2008. With Benedicte Carlsen and Ole Frithjof
Norheim.
- "Access to Primary Health Care and Health Outcomes:
The Relationships between GP Characteristics and Mortality
Rates." Journal of Health Economics, 25,
1139-1153, 2006. With Tor Helge Holmås.
- "Patient involvement in clinical decision-making:
The effect of GP attitude on patient satisfaction."
Health Expectations, 9, pp. 148-157, 2006. With
Benedicte Carlsen.
- "Transitions to employment from labour market
enterprises in Norway." International Journal of
Social Welfare, 15: 121-130, 2006. With Svenn-Åge
Dahl.
- "Late careers and career exits in Norway." In
H.-P. Blossfeld, S. Buchholz and D. Hofäcker (eds):
Globalization, Uncertainty and Late Careers in
Society. London: Routledge, 235-254, 2006. With Kjell
Vaage and Svenn-Åge Dahl.
- "Educational Attainment and Family Background."
German Economic Review, 6(3), pp. 377-394, 2005.
With Kjell G. Salvanes and Kjell Vaage.
- "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. 15-51, 2005. With JJ Heckman
and EJ Vytlacil.
- "Estimating the employment effects of education for
disabled workers in Norway." Empirical
Economics 28(3), pp. 515-533, 2003. Reprinted in (ed.)
Badi Baltagi, Panel Data, Theory and Applications,
Physica-Verlag, A Springer-Verlag Company, 2004.
- "A low-key social insurance reform - effects of
multidisciplinary outpatient treatment for back pain patients in
Norway." Journal of Health Economics, 22(5),
pp. 747-762, 2003. With TH Holmås and E
Kjerstad.
- "Skill formation among vocational rehabilitation
clients - public policy versus private incentives."
Education Economics, 11(3), pp. 219-237, 2003.
With Egil Kjerstad.
- "Bounding a matching estimator: the case of a
Norwegian training program." Oxford Bulletin of
Economics and Statistics, 63(1), pp. 115-143,
2001. Becker and Caliendo
(2007) has written a Stata program for this
estimator.
- "Three training parameters within a semiparametric
factor model." Bulletin of the International
Statistical Institute, 52 (Conference Journal), pp.
461-464, 1999. With JJ Heckman and EJ Vytlacil.
Selected publications in Norwegian
- 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).
- Inkluderende arbeidsliv og pensjoneringsatferd for eldre
arbeidstakere, i Pål Schøne (red.), Det nye
arbeidsmarkedet. Norges forskningsråd, 77-87,
2005.
- Tidligpensjoneringsatferd - hvilke forhold avgjør?
Søkelys på arbeidsmarkedet 2004. Fellesarbeid med
Svenn-Åge Dahl og Kjell Vaage.
- Velferdsstatens økonomi. Bokanmeldelse.Sosiologisk
tidsskrift 2004; 12(1):103-108
- Frafallsproblemet: Hvor blir det
av studentene? I: Formo, Ivar, red. Universitetspedagogisk
utviklingsarbeid i Bergen. Program for læringsforskning;
2004. s. 165-173.
- Økonomisk evaluering av
legemidler - En nytte- kostnadsanalyse av Visudyne-terapi.
HEB-rapport. Fellesarbeid med Astrid Grasdal og Oddvar Solli.
2002.
- 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.
- Samfunnsøkonomisk evaluering av legemidler.
Bokkapittel i Jan Erik Askildsen og Kjell Haug (red), Helse,
økonomi og politikk - Utfordringer for det norske
helsevesenet, Cappelen Akademisk Forlag, 2001.
- Legemiddeløkonomi.
Artikkel i HEB-Nytt nr. 1, 2000.
- Evaluering av Arbeidsmarkedsbedriftene (AMB) som
attføringstiltak. SNF-rapport nr. 29/2000. Fellesarbeid med
Svenn-Åge Dahl .
Work in
progress
- "Do Collective Actions Clear Common Air? The Effect
of International Environmental Protocols on Sulphus Emissions"
with S. Tjotta.
- "Educational reforms and labor outcomes" with
K. Vaage and K.G.
Salvanes
- "Does variation in GP practice really matter for the
length of sickness absenteeism? A multilevel analysis based on
Norwegian GP--patient data" with Tor Helge Holmås and M.
Kamrul
Islam.
- "Impacts of the health worker shortage on the
quality of health care in rural Tanzania" with Ottar
Mæstad and Gaute
Torsvik.
- "Patient mobility" with Egil Kjerstad.
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