Rolf Aaberge

Research Fellow

Statistics Norway

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Rolf Aaberge is Senior Research Fellow (professor equivalent position) at the Research Department of Statistics Norway and has a part-time position as professor at the centre of excellence ESOP, University of Oslo. He is a graduate in mathematics and statistics at the University of Oslo. His current research activities are concerned with labour supply and taxation, public finance, income distribution and social welfare, poverty, econometrics and statistical methods, and include management of a four years international research program on evaluation of welfare and tax policies in welfare states. He has published in economic journals such as Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Journal of Population Economics, Social Choice and Welfare, Theory and Decision, Journal of Economic Surveys, Journal of Economic Inequality, Review of Income and Wealth, Public Choice, and in statistical journals such as Biometrika, Metrika, Scandinavian Journal of Statistics and Biometrics.

He joined IZA as a Research Fellow in September 2005.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17458
How Business Income Measures Affect Income Inequality and the Tax Burden
Rolf Aaberge, Jorgen Heibo Modalsli, Marco Francesconi, Ola L. Vestad
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11562
Structural Labour Supply Models and Microsimulation
Rolf Aaberge, Ugo Colombino
revised version published in: International Journal of Microsimulation, 2018, 11 (1), 162 - 197
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11522
From Classes to Copulas: Wages, Capital, and Top Incomes
Rolf Aaberge, Anthony B. Atkinson, Sebastian Königs
published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2018, 16 (2), 295–320.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10574
On the Measurement of Long-Run Income Inequality: Empirical Evidence from Norway, 1875-2013
Rolf Aaberge, Tony Atkinson, Jorgen Heibo Modalsli
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8833
A Centralized Approach to Modelling Collective Household Decisions: Some Preliminary Results
Rolf Aaberge, Ugo Colombino, Federico Perali
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8692
Political Uncertainty and Household Savings
Rolf Aaberge, Kai Liu, Yu Zhu
published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 45 (2017): 154-170
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7738
A Theory for Ranking Distribution Functions
Rolf Aaberge, Tarjei Havnes, Magne Mogstad
published as 'Ranking intersecting distribution functions' in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2021,36 (6), 639 - 662
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7729
The Ins and Outs of Top Income Mobility
Rolf Aaberge, Tony Atkinson, Jorgen Heibo Modalsli
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7706
U.S. versus Sweden: The Effect of Alternative In-Work Tax Credit Policies on Labour Supply of Single Mothers
Rolf Aaberge, Lennart Flood
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6589
A Counting Approach for Measuring Multidimensional Deprivation
Rolf Aaberge, Eugenio Peluso
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4826
The Distributional Impact of Public Services When Needs Differ
Rolf Aaberge, Manudeep Bhuller, Audun Langørgen, Magne Mogstad
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2010, 94 (9-10), 549-562
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4769
Robust Inequality Comparisons
Rolf Aaberge, Magne Mogstad
published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2011, 9 (3), 353-371
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4714
Measuring Long-Term Inequality of Opportunity
Rolf Aaberge, Magne Mogstad, Vito Peragine
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2011, 95 (3-4), 193-204
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4699
On the Measurement of Long-Term Income Inequality and Income Mobility
Rolf Aaberge, Magne Mogstad
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4598
Accounting for Family Background when Designing Optimal Income Taxes: A Microeconometric Simulation Analysis
Rolf Aaberge, Ugo Colombino
published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2012, 25 (2), 741-761
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3852
Ranking Intersecting Lorenz Curves
Rolf Aaberge
published in: Social Choice and Welfare, 2009, 33 (2), 235-259
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3736
Evaluation of an In-Work Tax Credit Reform in Sweden: Effects on Labor Supply and Welfare Participation of Single Mothers
Rolf Aaberge, Lennart Flood
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3686
The Impact of Local Public Services and Geographical Cost of Living Differences on Poverty Estimates
Rolf Aaberge, Audun Langørgen, Magne Mogstad, Marit Østensen
published as 'The Distributional Impact of Public Services When Needs Differ' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2010, 94 (9-10), 549 - 562
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2659
On the Definition and Measurement of Chronic Poverty
Rolf Aaberge, Magne Mogstad
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2468
Designing Optimal Taxes with a Microeconometric Model of Household Labour Supply
Rolf Aaberge, Ugo Colombino
revised version published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2013, 115 (2), 449-475
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1986
Evaluating Alternative Representations of the Choice Sets in Models of Labour Supply
Rolf Aaberge, Ugo Colombino, Tom Wennemo
revised version published in: Journal of Economic Surveys, 2009, 23 (3), 586-612
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