ARNSTEIN AASSVE

Born June 19th, 1968. Cand. Mag. Molde College (Norway), MSc and PhD in Economics from University of Bristol (UK).

Arnstein Aassve received his undergraduate degree in Law, Economics and Computer Science at Molde College in 1992, before attending postgraduate studies at University of Bristol in 1993. He received his MSc in Economics in 1995 and his PhD in Economics in 2000, after having worked on poverty issues in the US. Since receiving his PhD he has worked as a lecturer in Economics at University of Bristol and University of Leicester. From 2000 to 2002 Aassve worked at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock with Professor Billari. In 2004 he received two research grants, the first from the ESRC to study poverty and fertility in developing countries and the second, from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, to analyze youth poverty using European longitudinal data sets. He is now moving from Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), University of Essex, to take up a position at the Institute of Quantitative Methods, Bocconi University. He is a fellow of Centre for Social Exclusion at London School of Economics and a fellow at Statistics Norway. Dr Aassve has since his PhD published in a range of scientific journals, including economics, social policy, demography, applied statistics and family planning. He has taught several PhD courses in panel regression as well as event history modeling. He is currently the lead instructor of the European Doctoral School of Demography in Paris, and has supervised several PhD students, both in statistics and Demography. He is also a member of the Gender and Generations Program (GGP) consortium, Theme convenor Data and Methods at the European Population Conference to be held in Barcelona 2008, and have presented his work at a range of institutions, including University of Vigo, the Royal Statistical Society open lecture, University of Florence, Vienna Institute of Demography, Vienna, Bocconi University, Centre for Market and Public Organisation (CMPO), University of Bristol, Centre d'Etudes de Populations, de Pauvreté et de Politiques Socio-Economiques, RAND Corporation, Los Angeles, University of Gothenburg, University of Manchester, University of Southampton, Pompeu Fabra University, ISEG, Statistics Norway, Australian National University, and Social Policy Research Institute, Sydney.

Economic demography, poverty and deprivation, comparative social policy, micro-econometrics, event history modelling, simulations.

"Marital Disruption and Economic Wellbeing: A comparative analysis", Journal of Royal Statistical Society Series A, 2007 (with G. Betti, S. Mazzuco and L. Mencarini); "Strings of Adulthood: Analyzing work-family trajectories using sequence analysis", European Journal of Population 2007, (with F.C. Billari, and R. Piccarreta); "Does leaving home make you poor? Evidence from 13 countries", European Journal of Population, 2007 (with M. Davia, M. Iacovou and S. Mazzuco); "An empirical investigation into the effect of childbearing on economic wellbeing in Europe" Statistical Methods and Applications 2006 Vol 15(2): 209 227 (with S. Mazzuco and L. Mencarini); "Societal Transition, Policy Changes and Family Formation: Evidence from Hungary", Journal of European Population 2006 (22):127 152, (with F.C. Billari and Z. Speder); "Fertility and poverty in developing countries: a comparative analysis", Population Review 2006 45(2), (with H. Engelhardt, F. Francavilla, A. Kedir, J. Kim, F. Mealli, L. Mencarini, S. Pudney and A. Prskawetz); "Youth poverty in Europe: What do we know?" Demographic Research 2006 15(3): p21 50 (with M. Iacovou, and L. Mencarini); "Employment, Family Union, and Childbearing Decisions in Great Britain", Journal of Royal Statistical Society Series A 2006 Vol 169(4):781 804 (with S. Burgess, C. Propper, and M. Dickson); "Childbearing and wellbeing: A Comparative Analysis of Welfare Regimes in Europe", Journal of European Social Policy, 2005 n.3, vol.15 (with A. Aassve, S. Mazzuco, L. Mencarini); "Sequence analysis of BHPS life course data", in M. Vichi, P. Monari, S. Magnani, A. Montanari (Eds.), New Developments in Classification and Data Analysis, Springer, Berlin, 2005 (with F.C. Billari, R. Piccarreta); "Social Policies and Lifecourse Outcomes: The Impact of Cohabitation and Marriage on first Births in Germany and Sweden", Population and Environment 2004 Vol. 25(6) 531 561 (with P. Baizán, and F. C. Billari); "Sequence analysis of BHPS life course data, in CLADAG 2003. Book of Short Papers, CLUEB, Bologna (with F.C. Billari and R. Piccarreta); Incomes and the Transition to Independent Living, Marriage and Divorce among Young Americans, Journal of Population Economics 2003 Vol 16(3): 250 267 (with S. Burgess, and C. Propper); The Impact of Economic Resources on Premarital Childbearing and Subsequent Marriage Among Young American Women, Demography, 40(1):125 126; Cohabitation, marriage, first birth: The interrelationship of family formation events in Spain. European Journal of Population 2003 Vol 19: 147 169 (with P. Baizán, and F. C. Billari); "Leaving Home: A Comparative Longitudinal Analysis of ECHP data", Journal of European Social Policy, 2002 12(4):259 275 (with F.C.  Billari, S. Mazucco, and F. Ongaro); "Transitions from Home to Marriage among Young Americans", Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2003 17(1):1 23 (with A. Aassve, S. Burgess, A. Chesher and C. Propper); "Changing Patterns of Marriage and Fertility Behaviour in a Time of Social and Economic Change: Evidence from ". Studies in Family Planning, 2002 33(2):165-172 (with G. Altankhuyag); "Das Verlassen des Elternhauses durch junge Erwachsene in Europa und seine demografischen Konsequenzen", in Max-Planck-Gesellschaft Jahrbuch, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Monaco di Baviera, 2002: 727-729 (with P. Baizán and F.C. Billari); "The Impact of Income and Occupational Status on Leaving Home: Evidence from the Italian ECHP sample", LABOUR: Review of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations, 2001 15:501-529 (with F. Billari and F. Ongaro); "Income and Assets", chapter 6 in "The ECE/PAU Generations and Gender Programme: Concepts for a second round of Fertility and Family Surveys in Europe, with particular attention paid to persons of reproductive/working age", edited by J. Hoem, report commissioned by the Population Activities Unit, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe.