MANUDEEP BHULLER

MANUDEEP BHULLER
Updated: November 2015
Postal address:
Department of Economics
University of Chicago
1126 E. 59th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
United States of America
Website: sites.google.com/site/manudeepbhuller
Phone: (+1) 312 973-9248
Email: bhuller@uchicago.edu
Personal information:
Date of birth: November 6, 1985
Place of birth: Amritsar, India
Citizenship: Norwegian & O.C.I.
Family status: Married, one child
CURRENT EMPLOYMENT
Post-Doctoral Scholar
Department of Economics, University of Chicago
2014 – present
Areas of interest: Labor Economics
Economics of Education
Economics of Crime
APPOINTMENTS & AFFILIATIONS
Research Fellow
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn, Germany
2015 – present
Researcher (Forsker II)
Research Department, Statistics Norway (SSB)
2012 – present
Research Economist
Research Department, Statistics Norway (SSB)
2009 – 2012
Teaching Instructor
Department of Economics, University of Oslo, Norway
2006 – 2008
Courses: Introductory Microeconomics (ECON1210)
Introductory Macroeconomics (ECON1310)
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Economics
Department of Economics, University of Oslo, Norway
2010 – 2014
Doctoral dissertation: Five Essays on Applied Microeconomics
Advisors: Rolf Aaberge & Magne Mogstad
Committee: Pedro Carneiro, Eva Mörk & Knut Røed
M.A. in Economic Theory & Econometrics
Department of Economics, University of Oslo, Norway
2004 – 2009
RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS & WORKING PAPERS
Published/forthcoming:
[1] “Time Aggregation and State Dependence in Welfare Receipt” (with C. N. Brinch & S.
Königs). Economic Journal, forthcoming.
[2] “Life Cycle Earnings, Education Premiums and Internal Rates of Return” (with M. Mogstad
& K. G. Salvanes). Journal of Labor Economics, forthcoming.
[3] “Broadband Internet: An Information Superhighway to Sex Crime?” (with T. Havnes, E.
Leuven & M. Mogstad), Review of Economic Studies, 80, 1237-1266, Oct 2013. URL.
[4] “The Distributional Impact of Public Services When Needs Differ (with R. Aaberge, A.
Langørgen & M. Mogstad), Journal of Public Economics, 94, 549-562, Oct 2010. URL.
Working papers/work in progress:
[5] “Decomposing Labor Supply: Preferences, Skills and Opportunities”
[6] “How the Internet Changed the Market for Print Media” (with Havnes, McCauley & Mogstad).
[7] “The Social Costs of Incarceration” (with G. B. Dahl, K. V. Løken & M. Mogstad).
[8] “Incarceration, Recidivism and Employment” (with G. B. Dahl, K. V. Løken & M. Mogstad).
[9] “Worker Skill Composition and Technology Adoption in Firms” (with I. Gaarder).
[10] “Productivity Spillovers, Fiscal Externalities and Social Returns to Education”(with M.Mogstad).
[11] “Signaling Productivity and Job Selection” (with G. Aryal).
[12] “Identifying the Option Value of Investments in Education”
POLICY REPORTS & RELATED PUBLICATIONS (in Norwegian)
[1] “Fattig i fjor – fattig iår? Tilstandsavhengighet i innvandrerfattigdom” (with E. E. Brandsås),
Søkelys på arbeidslivet, 31:3, 209-228, Oct 2014.
[2] “Fattigdomsdynamikk blant innvandrere. En empirisk analyse for perioden 1993-2011” (with
E. E. Brandsås), SSB Reports, 2013:40, 1-59, Sept 2013.
[3] “Arbeidstilbud blant innvandrere. Effektivitets- og fordelingsvirkninger av skattereformer”
(with R. Aaberge), SSB Reports, 2012:30, 1-52, Nov 2012.
[4] “Utviklingen av arbeidstilbudet i Norge” (with R. Aaberge), SSB Økonomiske analyser,
2012:5, 24-32, Oct 2012.
[5] “Innvandrere blir værende i fattigdom” (with R. Aaberge), SSB Samfunnsspeilet, 2011:1,
28-33, Feb 2011.
[6] “Økonomisk fattigdom blant innvandrere” (with R. Aaberge), Søkelys på arbeidslivet,
27:4, 263-290, Oct 2010.
[7] “Vedvarende økonomisk fattigdom blant innvandrere. En empirisk analyse for perioden 19932007” (with R. Aaberge), SSB Reports, 2010:32, 1-69, June 2010.
[8] “Inndeling av Norge i arbeidsmarkedsregioner”, SSB Notes, 2009:24, 1-30, April 2009.
PRESENTATIONS
2015: [including scheduled] Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), Mannheim, Research
Seminar, December 18; 4th SOLE/EALE World Conference, Montréal, June 26-28.
2014: 68th European Meeting of the Econometric Society, TSE, Toulouse, August 25-29; 29th
Annual Congress of the European Economic Association, TSE, Toulouse, August 25-29; 16th
ZEW Summer Workshop for Young Economists, Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW),
Mannheim, June 30 - July 4; 19th Annual Meeting of the Society of Labor Economists, Arlington,
May 2-3; Annual Conference of the Royal Economic Society, Manchester, April 7-9; Institute for
Social Research, Oslo, Institute Seminar, February 6.
2013: Professor James J. Heckman Workshop at Statistics Norway, Oslo, December 13; Dynamics
of Low Wage, Low Pay and Transfer Receipt, IAB, Nuremberg, November 15-16; Department of
Economics, University of Oslo, Norway, ESOP Seminar, May 27; Department of Economics, University of Bergen, Norway, Department Seminar, May 16.
2012: University College London, Department of Economics, CReAM Seminar, October 15; 17th
Annual Meeting of the Society of Labor Economists, Chicago, May 4-5.
2011: 23rd EALE Conference in Labor Economics, Paphos, Cyprus, September 22-24; 26th
Congress of the European Economic Association, University of Oslo, August 25-29; 14th IZA European Summer School in Labor Economics, Munich, May 16-22; Educational Systems and Human
Capital, Department of Economics, NTNU, March 28-29; Department of Economics, Norwegian
School of Economics, Bergen, Labor Seminar, March 16; Norwegian Social Research Institute, Oslo,
Social Policy Seminar, February 9.
2010: Swedish Institute for Social Research, University of Stockholm, Labor Seminar, December
9; Department of Economics, Catholic University Leuven, Public Economics Seminar, June 29;
Workshop in Public Economics; Uppsala Institute for Fiscal Studies, June 7-11.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Supervision:
Eirik Eylands Brandsås, M.A. student
Department of Economics, University of Oslo, Norway
2013 – 2014
Master’s thesis: Monte Carlo Evaluation of Common State Dependence Estimators
Current graduate enrollment: Wisconsin School of Business, UW-Madison
Joint Ph.D. Program in Finance & Economics, 2015 -
Referee assignments:
Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of European Economic Association, Economic Journal,
Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Economics of Education Review, Economics Letters,
Frontiers of Economics in China
REFERENCES
Magne Mogstad
Department of Economics
University of Chicago
mogstad@uchicago.edu
Tarjei Havnes
Department of Economics
University of Oslo
tarjei.havnes@econ.uio.no
Rolf Aaberge
Research Department
Statistics Norway (SSB)
rolf.aaberge@ssb.no