November 2020

VEGARD MOKLEIV NYGAARD

Personal Information
Address Contact Information
3623 Cullen Boulevard, Room 204 Cell: (612) 402-8450
216 McElhinney Hall E-mail: vmnygaard@uh.edu
Houston, TX 77204-5019 URL: sites.google.com/site/vegardmokleivnygaard

Current Employment

2019 - present Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Houston

Education

Degree Field Institution Year

PhD Economics University of Minnesota 2019
MA Economics University of Oslo 2012
BA Economics University of Oslo 2011

Major Fields of Concentration

Macroeconomics, Health Economics, Public Finance

Previous Employment and Visiting Positions

Summer 2018 Teaching Assistant, Department of Economics, University of Minnesota

2017 Visiting Graduate Student, T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University
2015 - 2019 Research Assistant, Department of Economics, University of Minnesota. Research assistant
to Professor Timothy J. Kehoe
2012 - 2013 Junior Researcher, Central Bank of Norway
2011 - 2012 Researcher, Statistics Norway
2010 - 2012 Research Assistant, University of Oslo. Research assistant to Professor Ragnar Nymoen

Honors and Awards

2020 New Faculty Research Program Award, University of Houston

2018 - 2019 Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, University of Minnesota
Summer 2018 Distinguished Teaching Assistant, Department of Economics, University of Minnesota
2013 - 2015 Torske Klubben Fellowship, University of Minnesota
2013 Norges Bank Ph.D. Scholarship
Peer reviewed publications

1. “Implications of increasing college attainment for aging in general equilibrium,” with J. C. Conesa, T. J.
Kehoe, and G. Raveendranathan, European Economic Review, 2020, 122. Special issue on “The Interface
Between Structural Micro and Macroeconomics” edited by Z. Eckstein, M. Keane, R. Rogerson, and R.
Sauer.
In the media: The Region (FRB Minneapolis); VOX EU

2. “Macroeconomic effects of Medicare,” with J. C. Conesa, D. V. Costa, P. Kamali, T. J. Kehoe, G.

Raveendranathan, and A. Saxena, Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 2018, 11: 27-40.

Non-peer reviewed publications

1. “Macroeconomic effects of ageing and healthcare policy in the United States,” with J. C. Conesa, T. J.
Kehoe, and G. Raveendranathan, in D. E. Bloom (ed.), Live long and prosper? The economics of ageing
populations, 2019, CEPR Press.

2. “Input-output analysis of the Norwegian economy,” Norges Bank Staff Memo 17, 2013.

3. “An almost ideal demand system analysis of non-durable consumption categories,” Statistics Norway Report
1, 2013.

Working Papers

1. “Optimal allocation of the COVID-19 stimulus checks,” with B. E. Sørensen and F. Wang.

2. “The impact of employer-sponsored insurance in 20th century United States,” with G. Raveendranathan.

3. “A comparison of living standards across the United States of America,” with E. Falcettoni.
In the media: Star Tribune; Heller-Hurwicz; FEDS Notes; Brookings; Blog post

4. “Causes and consequences of life expectancy inequality.”

Presentations (including scheduled)

2021: SED (Barcelona, Spain); McMaster University (Hamilton, Canada)

2020: Board of Governors (Washington, DC); Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge, LA); SEA (New
Orleans, LA); EEA Congress (Rotterdam, Netherlands); MD4SG (virtual due to COVID-19); University of
Houston (Houston, TX); Texas Camp Econometrics (Woodlands, TX)
2019: Board of Governors (Washington, DC); University of Oslo (Oslo, Norway); Central Bank of Norway
(Oslo, Norway); NHH Norwegian School of Economics (Bergen, Norway); University of New South Wales
(Sydney, Australia); University of Houston (Houston, TX); Penn Wharton Budget Model (Philadelphia, PA);
Ryerson University (Toronto, Canada)
2018: University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, MN); Workshop on Dynamic Macroeconomics (Vigo, Spain)
2017: MEA (Cincinnati, OH)
2016: Barcelona GSE Summer Forum (Barcelona, Spain); MEA (Chicago, IL)

Additional Qualifications

Special Sworn Status, U. S. Census Bureau