Assistant Professor About Ingvil Gaarder Ingvil Gaarder is an Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy. Her research applies microeconomic theory and microdata to study the differential effects of government policies on individuals. In one paper, she uses a natural experiment in Norway to examine the incidence and distributional effects of consumption taxes across households. A second strand of research has studied the effect on wage and employment outcomes resulting from the interaction of new technology with different worker skill levels. Ingvil graduated in 2014 from the European University Institute in Florence with a Ph.D. in Economics. She earned her MSc from University of Oslo. Prior to Harris, Ingvil held positions as Visiting Researcher at the Institute for Fiscal Studies in London and Research Associate at the Department of Economics, University of Chicago. Contact Information Room 2043 igaarder@uchicago.edu Curriculum Vitae Website Recent News Alumni Profile: Shruti Kapoor, AM’19 Thu., June 01, 2023 Sudan’s “Peculiar Political History”: 2023 Pearson Annual Lecture Tue., May 30, 2023 More news Upcoming Events PKU-UChicago Summer School Faculty Spotlight: Mini Class with Professor Yao Tang (Peking University) Thu., June 01, 2023 | 8:00 PM Graduation: University Convocation and Harris Hooding Ceremony Sat., June 03, 2023 | 9:00 AM University of Chicago Main Quadrangle Chicago, IL 60637 United States More events
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