Economics of Education in Europe (EENEE)

Torberg Falch and his Colleagues at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Name:	Assoc. Prof. Torberg Falch, PhD
Postal Address:	Department of Economics NTNU Draqgvoll, 7491 Trondheim Norway
Homepage:	http://www.sv.ntnu.no/iso/Torberg.Falch/default.htm
Regional Coverage:	Norway
Current position:	Associate Prof. at Department of Economics at Trondheim University
Area of Expertise	Public sector economics, labour markets

Torberg Falch is Professor at the Department of Economics at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, Norway. He is also the Chairman of the Department of Economics at NTNU. He holds a Master Degree in economics from NTNU and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Oslo. Since 2004 he has been CESifo Research Network fellow. Several of his research projects have been financed by the Norwegian Research Council, and he has written several reports on education policy issues for the Norwegian Ministry of Education, jointly with colleagues. His wide-ranging work in the economics of education has been published in such journals as the European Economic Review, Economics of Education Review, Education Economics and the European Journal of Political Economy, and also in different Norwegian outlets. The sub-fields of the economics of education he covers include education production function studies, analysing the effects of purchased inputs, peer groups, families and institutions; teacher labour markets, analysing the sorting of teachers across schools, teacher demand and teacher wage determination; and school costs and cost effectiveness, analysing the determinants of school cost components and the political economy of resource allocation.

At NTNU, Falch’s collaboration with a group of further well-known researchers in the economics of education, Hans Bonesrønning, Associate Professor and Bjarne Strøm, Professor, ensures competent expertise from this part of Europe. Geographically, Falch will cover Norway, Finland and Sweden.