Kalle Moene, Professor at the Department of Economics and leader of the ESOP centre, has been awarded membership in Academia Europaea, the most prestigious scientific organization in Europe.
2012
Centre for the study of Equality, Social Organization and Performance has up to seven scholarships for master students writing their thesis in the spring 2013. The application deadline is October 20th.
ESOP is pleased to announce that Raquel Fernández is visiting our centre from Tuesday October 2 - Friday October 5.
A jury appointed by the newspaper Morgenbladet has chosen Professor Bård Harstad as one of the ten foremost of outstanding young scientists in Norway. Morgenbladet will host a meeting with Bård Harstad and the nine other outstanding scientists at Blå, Thursday September 20.
The ESOP Scholarship in Gender and Economics for 2012 has been awarded to Ella Getz Wold.
Professor Michael Hoel from ESOP wins the prize for the best article of the year in Scandinavian Journal of Economics.
M.Phil. Marte Strøm at the Department of Economics will defend her dissertation for the Ph.D. degree: "Double Income Households - 4 Essays on Children, Votes and Parents' Labor Supply"
Nina Drange will defend her dissertation for the Ph.D. degree ”Childcare in the Welfare State", on June 1st at the University of Stavanger.
When working at ESOP, Pernille Parmer will be in room 1003.
There are 4-5 vacant positions as research assistants at the Department of Economics. Application deadline expired. (May 14, 2012)
ESOP is pleased to announce that Eshita Gupta is visiting our centre from Tuesday April 10 - Thursday May 10. She will be in room 1003.
ESOP has the priviledge of hosting a visiting researcher from Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Mr. Miguel Serrano Lopez has joined us for a three month internship at ESOP and PRIO.
ESOP is proud to launch its new web page today - as the first Centre of Excellence at the University of Oslo.
Ingvild Almås' article "International Income Inequality: Measuring PPP Bias by Estimating Engel Curves for Food" is forthcoming in the prestigious journal American Economic Review.
Kjell Arne Brekke has together with Snorre Kverndokk received the prize for the best paper published in Samfunnsøkonomen in 2011.
4-7 research fellowships in economics availabe at ESOP and the Department of Economics, Faculty of Social Sciences.
The application deadline is 01.03.2012
3-5 availabe positions as Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics, Faculty of Social Sciences.
The application deadline is 01.02.2012
On December 18 – 19 2011, ESOP arranged a research workshop in New Delhi on 'Social Networks and Urban Labour Markets in Developing Countries'.