Overview
Andreas Ravndal Kostøl is a Norwegian economist. At the time of the Autor-Kostøl-Mogstad (2015/2019) paper he was affiliated with Statistics Norway and the University of Bergen. He works on labor economics and program evaluation, with a focus on disability insurance, household labor supply, and consumption insurance.
Key Contributions
- Kostøl, Andreas Ravndal, and Magne Mogstad. (2014). "How Financial Incentives Induce Disability Insurance Recipients to Return to Work." American Economic Review 104(2): 624–655. Uses Norwegian DI program variation to identify the causal effect of financial return-to-work incentives, demonstrating that linking DI benefits to earnings-based bonuses substantially increases labor supply among recipients.
- Autor, David H., Andreas Ravndal Kostøl, and Magne Mogstad. (2015/2019). "Disability Benefits, Consumption Insurance, and Household Labor Supply." NBER Working Paper No. 23466; published American Economic Review 109(9): 2905–2946. Co-developer of the household-level welfare analysis using Norwegian judge-lottery IV; primary architect of the consumption imputation methodology using Norwegian administrative registers; identification of the causal spousal Added Worker Effect in a DI context.
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