Jo Thori Lind Associate professor ESOP and Department of economics
	PB 1095 Blindern N-0317 Oslo, Norway Phone: (+47) 22 84 40 27 Telefax: (+47) 22 85 50 35 E-mail: j.t.lind@econ.uio.no	Room 1016 Eilert Sundts hus Moltke Moes vei 31

Teaching: ECON4160, ECON4310, PECOS4020

Vita

Published work

• With or without U? The appropriate test for a U shaped relationship Forthcoming, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics (with H. Mehlum). Associated Stata module utest
• Religion, welfare state politics, and church-state separation. Journal of Ecumenical Studies 42: 42-52 (2007). (with Daniel L. Chen)
• Fractionalization and the size of government. Journal of Public Economics 91, 51-76 (2007).Working paper version
• Does permanent income determine the vote? B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics: Vol. 7(1) , Article 19 (2007). Working paper version
• Fractionalization and inter-group differences. Kyklos 60, 123-39 (2007).Working paper version
• Why is there so little redistribution? Nordic Journal of Political Economy 31: 111-125 (2005).
• Repeated surveys and the Kalman filter. The Econometrics Journal 8, 418-27 (2005).Working paper version
• Aggregation of utility and equivalence scales: A solution to the Pangloss critique. Review of Income and Wealth 49 (4), 555-568 (2003). Working paper version. (as Tout est au mieux dans ce meilleur des ménages possibles. The Pangloss critique of equivalence scales)

• Division and Distribution. Three essays on the political economy of redistribution. PhD dissertation, University of Oslo
• The use of household welfare functions to estimate equivalence scales. Documents 2000/16, Statistics Norway. Slightly revised version of my cand. polit. thesis

Unpublished papers

• Do the rich vote Conservative because they are rich?
• The Political Economy of Beliefs: Why Fiscal and Social Conservatives and Liberals Come Hand-in-Hand (with D. L. Chen)
• The number of organizations in heterogeneous societies
• Miserly Developments (with K. Moene)
• Income, Information and the Extent of Redistribution (with D. Rohner)
• Measuring unfair (in)equality (with I. Almås, A. W. Cappelen, E. Ø. Sørensen, and B. Tungodden)
• Opium for the Masses? Conflict-induced narcotics production in Afghanistan. (with K. Moene and F. Willumsen)
• Playing with the Good Guys. A Public Good Game with Endogenous Group Formation. (with K. A. Brekke, K. E. Hauge, and K. Nyborg)