Kari Vea Salvanes is Head of Research for Work and Welfare and a Senior Research Fellow at ISF. She holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Oslo (2014).
Salvanes’ research focuses on various topics in the economics of education, such as educational transitions and school-based interventions, as well as young people’s transition from education to work. Her research combines causal methods, including natural experiments and field experiments, with register data.
Salvanes is the PI of the project Under Pressure: Student achievement and wellbeing in a changing school environment, funded by the Research Council of Norway (FRIPRO). She is also affiliated with CORE – Centre for Research on Gender Equality.