Curriculum Vitae

Name: Karin Monstad

Born: 1959

Academic degree: Ph.D.

Tel: +47 55589772 Fax: +47 55 58 97 11

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Postal address: Uni Research Rokkan Centre, Nygårdsgt.5, 5015 Bergen, Norway

Current position: Research Manager

Major research interests: Health economics, family economics, labour economics.

Education:

2007Ph.D. at the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, Bergen

2001-03Cand.oecon (equivalent to M.Sc. in Economics) from The Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration

Working experience:

2012-Uni Research Rokkan Centre. Research Manager.

2010-Uni Research Rokkan Centre. Senior Researcher.

2007-10The University of Bergen, Department of Economics, Post Doc.

2003-07The Norwegian School of Economics and Business, Department of Economics, Research scholar

1983-2001Experience from financial management, (Hordaland county, Lindås municipality, SMP Marine Produkter AS, University of Bergen), financing and project evaluation (Den norske Industribank AS).

Articles in international peer-reviewed journals:

  • Worried Sick? Worker Responses to a Financial Shock. Forthcoming Labour Economics. With Espen Bratberg.
  • Protocol for the effect evaluation of Individual Placement and Support (IPS): a randomized controlled multicenter trial of IPS versus treatment as usual for patients with moderate to severe mental illness in Norway. BMC psychiatry, 14(1), 307. With V.Sveinsdottir, C.Løvvik, T.Fyhn, K. Ludvigsen, S. Øverland, S. Endresen Reme.
  • Waiting time and socio-economic status - an individual-level analysis. With Lars Birger Engesæter and Birgitte Espehaug. Health Economics 2013, DOI: 10.1002/hec.2924.
  • Inequity in the use of physician services in Norway before and after introducing patient lists in primary care. International Journal of Equity in Health, 10:25, 2011. With Astrid Grasdal.
  • Education and Fertility: Evidence from a Natural Experiment. Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2008, 110, pp. 827-852. With Carol Propper and Kjell G. Salvanes.

Other publications:

  • Innsatsstyrt finansiering og sjukefråvær på norske sjukehus. Forthcoming Tidsskrift for velferdsforskning 2015.
  • Sosial ulikhet i fordelingen av helsetjenester – målemetoder og empiriske funn. Book chapter in Haug, Kaarbøe og Olsen (eds.): Et helsevesen uten grenser? Cappelen Akademisk Forlag, 2009. With Astrid Grasdal.
  • Låg fertilitet blant dei høgt utdanna: Teoretiske forklaringar og internasjonal empiri (2008). [Low Fertility among highly Educated: Theoretical Explanations and International Empirics], Samfunnsøkonomen 62(3), pp. 36-46.

Awards:

European Association of Labour Economists, Best Poster Award, Bonn 2012 for the poster “Worried Sick? Worker Response to Organizational Turmoil”

Referee:

Journal of Population Economics, Health Economics, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Economics Letters, Journal of Development Studies

Working papers and work in progress:

  • “Do treatment decisions depend on physicians’ financial incentives?” With Kurt Brekke, Tor Helge Holmås and Odd Rune Straume.
  • “Evaluating the Effect of a National Labour and Welfare Administration Reform (Nav-reform) on Employment, Social Insurance and Social Assistance”. With Arild Aakvik and Tor Helge Holmås. Working paper 4/2014, Uni Research Rokkan Centre.
  • "Is teenage motherhood contagious? Evidence from a Natural Experiment". CEPR DP 8505/2011. With Carol Propper and Kjell G. Salvanes.

Ongoing projects:

  • Evaluation of Independent Medical Evaluation after six months’ sick leave, a Randomized Controlled Trial. With Silje Mæland (Principal investigator (PI)) and others. Financed by The Norwegian Labour and Welfare Service.
  • Sickness Absence and Working Life Conditions. PI, Norwegian Research Council grant given June 2014. With Espen Bratberg, Tor Helge Holmås and Maarten Lindeboom.
  • Aging, Health and Labour market participation. With Arild Aakvik (PI), Tor Helge Holmås, Maarten Lindeboom and Egil Kjerstad. Norwegian Research Council, grant given May 2014.
  • Sickness absence: Using random assignment of GPs in emergency centers as a natural experiment. With Tor Helge Holmås (PI) and others, Norwegian Research Council grant given June 2014.
  • Evaluation of Individual Placement and Support, a Labour Market Sector Randomized Controlled Trial. With Silje Endresen Reme (PI) and others. Financed by The Norwegian Directorate of Health and The Norwegian Labour and Welfare Service.
  • Evaluation of the Coordination Reform in the Norwegian Health Care Sector – better health, better health care, better use of resources? With Sverre Kittelsen (PI) and others. Norwegian Research Council grant.
  • The Coordination Reform in the Norwegian Health Care Sector - Consequences for the elderly. With Benedicte Carlsen (PI) and others. Norwegian Research Council grant.