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Ingvild Almås holds the prestigious Larsson-Rosenquist Professorship of Economics of Child and Youth Development with a focus on breastfeeding at the University of Zurich, Department of Economics. She maintains significant academic appointments as a part-time Professor at the Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholm University, and as Professor II at the Department of Economics, Norwegian School of Economics. Almås serves on the Committee of Monetary Policy and Financial Stability at the Norwegian Central Bank and holds multiple distinguished affiliations including CEPR Research Fellow, International Research Fellow at the Institute for Fiscal Studies in London, and member of the European Standing Committee of the Econometric Society.
Almås earned her Ph.D. in Economics from the Norwegian School of Economics in 2008, following a Master's degree from the University of Oslo in 2004. Her academic trajectory shows steady progression from Assistant Professor (2008-2011) to Associate Professor (2012-2017) at the Norwegian School of Economics, then to full Professor positions at both Norwegian School of Economics and Stockholm University. She has held visiting appointments at numerous elite institutions including Princeton University, Yale University, University College London, and University of Oxford.
Her research program centers on understanding economic inequalities through multiple lenses - measurement challenges, household decision processes, gender disparities, and international comparisons. Almås has pioneered methods for addressing PPP bias in international income comparisons and has made significant contributions to understanding intra-household resource allocation, poverty measurement, and the behavioral aspects of economic decision-making. Her work increasingly integrates environmental factors like temperature with economic behavior, as seen in her recent publications.
Analysis of Almås's publication record reveals a strategic evolution from methodological contributions to inequality measurement toward more policy-relevant research on child development, poverty alleviation, and gender equality. Her current focus includes the Kizazi Kijacho research program, a major initiative examining household decision-making in developing contexts to identify scalable models for improving child development outcomes while addressing poverty and gender disparities.
Her scientific contributions have earned significant recognition:
- ERC Consolidator Grant (2020) for groundbreaking work on household inequality
- The Niels Klim prize (2013) from The Ludvig Holberg Memorial Fund
- Best PhD thesis in macroeconomics (2008-2011) awarded by Norges Bank (2012)
- Ingvar Wederwang's research prize for young researchers (2011)
- Nomination for the Distinguished CESifo Affiliate Award (2010)
As an academic mentor, Almås has supervised five doctoral students to completion across multiple institutions. Her research program is supported by substantial funding:
- FAIR center of excellence ($14 million from The Research Council of Norway, 2017-2027) as Principal Investigator
- New approaches to measuring income inequality ($600,000 from The Research Council of Norway, 2016-2019)
- Market integration and economic development ($768,000 from Ragnar Söderberg Foundation, 2016-2018)
- Inequality: From household decisions to global inequality ($193,000 from Swedish Research Council, 2016-2018)
Almås plays a central role in the FAIR center of excellence at the Norwegian School of Economics, contributing to research on fairness, inequality, and redistribution. She is a principal architect of the Kizazi Kijacho program, which combines experimental and observational methods to study household decision-making in child development contexts. Her editorial leadership includes serving as Editor of The Scandinavian Journal of Economics since 2017 and as Associate Editor for multiple leading journals in economics, philosophy, and public policy.
