ARNA VARDARDOTTIR

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1 ARNA VARDARDOTTIR Assistant Professor, Ph.D. Copenhagen Business School Porcelænshaven 16 A, 1. fl., 1.88 DK-2000, Frederiksberg, Denmark Tel EMPLOYMENT May Assistant Professor of Economics, Copenhagen Business School RESEARCH INTERESTS Fields: Household Finance, Consumer Finance, Family Economics, and Applied Microeconomics. EDUCATION Visiting Student Researcher (Sponsor: David Card), UC Berkeley, Center of Labor Economics Visiting Ph.D. Student,, UC Berkeley Ph.D. in Economics. Advisors and references: Magnus Johannesson, Paolo Sodini, David Card and Juanna Joensen B.Sc. in Economics - University of Iceland (Summa Cum Laude) PUBLICATIONS Peer Effects and Academic Achievement: Regression Discontinuity Approach Economics of Education Review, 2013, 36 (0), WORKING PAPERS Bargaining over Risk: The Impact of Decision Power on Household Portfolios (with Tomas Thörnqvist, ) Gender Identity and Assortative Mating (with Andreas Steinhauer, University of Edinburgh) Household Financial Distress and Initial Endowments: Evidence from the 2008 Financial Crisis How Does Daddy at Home Affect Marital Stability? (with Herdis Steingrimsdottir, Copenhagen Business School)

2 The Effects of Classroom Peers in an Early Tracking System - Revise and Resubmit at the Economics of Education Review Do Children Crowd out Entrepreneurial Activity (with Tobin Hanspal and Jimmy Martinez-Correa, Copenhagen Business School) WORK IN PROGRESS Domestic Violence and Gender Identity (with David Card, UC Berkeley and Gordon Dahl, UC San Diego) It s Double the Giggles and Double the Grins, How to Manage Your Portfolio When You Have Twins? (with Tobin Hanspal and Jimmy Martinez-Correa, Copenhagen Business School) This project has been awarded a grant of $270,000 from The Carlsberg Foundation A Life-Cycle Model of Consumption, Savings and Investment Choices Using Register Data (with Marco Angrisani, University of Southern California). Causes and Consequences of the Gender Gap in Educational Choices - This project has been awarded a grant of $270,000 from The Danish Social Sciences Research Council (FSE). (with Herdis Steingrimsdottir, Copenhagen Business School) Power of Parties on Local Labor Markets: Evidence from U.S. Counties (with Louis-Philippe Beland, University of Montreal) TEACHING EXPERIENCE Fall 2014 Spring 2012 Spring 2011 Fall 2010 Fall 2008 Fall 2008 Spring 2008 Fall 2007 Microeconomics Course Coordinator and Instructor, Copenhagen Business School. Applied Econometric Time Series (masters) Teaching Assistant, Stockholm School of Economics. Econometrics (PhD) Teaching Assistant, and Stockholm University. Microeconomics (undergraduate) Teaching Assistant, Stockholm School of Economics. Econometrics II (undergraduate) Teaching Assistant, University of Iceland. Macroeconomics III (undergraduate) Teaching Assistant, University of Iceland. Microeconomics II (undergraduate) Teaching Assistant, University of Iceland. Macroeconomics I (undergraduate) Teaching Assistant, University of Iceland. Microeconomics, market failure and the role of government (masters) Teaching Assistant, University of Iceland. Microeconomics II (undergraduate) Teaching Assistant, University of Iceland. Macroeconomics I (undergraduate) Teaching Assistant, University of Iceland.

3 RELEVANT POSITIONS 2009 Special Investigation Commission (SIC), established by the Icelandic Parliament to investigate and analyse the processes leading to the collapse of the three main banks in Iceland. The commission delivered its report to the parliament on April : Central Bank of Iceland, economic research at the Research and Forecasting Division of the Economics Department at the Bank University of Iceland, research assistance Central bank of Iceland, summer position Institute of Economic Studies, University of Iceland, research assistant. FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS Research grant from the Carlsberg Foundation. Project: Household Risk Management and Family Composition Jan Wallander Research Grant 2013 Inga och Sixten Holmquist stipendiefond for studies abroad 2013 Stiftelsen Siamon conference grant 2012 Iceland Chamber of Commerce Scholarship awarded to graduate students abroad Tom Hedelius Research Grant for studies abroad Jan Wallander Research Grant 2012 Fraenckel Scholarship for research travel 2011 Fraenckel Scholarship for conference participation 2012 Stiftelsen Siamon conference grant scholarship for Ph.D. studies Fraenckel Scholarship for research travel 2011 Landsbankinn scholarship awarded by an Icelandic bank Fulbright Scholarship from the Icelandic Fulbright Commission for the academic year (declined) Glitnir Bank scholarship awarded by an Icelandic bank Kaupthing Bank scholarship awarded by an Icelandic bank Economics Department at the University of Iceland Most outstanding undergraduate award Economics department at the University of Iceland award for highest GPA after completing the first year of undergraduate study Commercial College of Iceland Most outstanding student award Icelandic Mathematical Society award for excellence in mathematics Science fund of the Commercial College of Iceland award for excellence in physics The German Embassy in Iceland award for excellence in German The Danish Embassy in Iceland award for excellence in Danish Walter's Fund Most outstanding student award, The Commercial College of Iceland.

4 CONFERENCES AND PRESENTATIONS (including scheduled) Arna Vardardottir 2015 Royal Economic Society Annual Conference, Aarhus University, Lund University Goethe University Frankfurt, Lund University 2014 University of Alberta, Ryerson University, Simon Fraser University, Dartmouth College, University of Pittsburgh, Copenhagen Business School, Norwegian School of Economics (NHH), Uppsala University, the Melbourne Institute, Stockholm University (IIES), Society of Labor Economists - SOLE - Annual Meeting,, FINet/HCEO/CEAR/IFS - Risk and Family Economics Conference, 26 th Annual Conference of the European Association of Labour Economists EALE, Lund University 2013 Spring School in Behavioral Economics, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, IFAU Seminar, Uppsala University, Stockholm School of Economics, All-California Labor Economics, University of California, Berkeley, Labor Lunch Seminar, ZEW Workshop on Family Economics and Family Policy 2012, Royal Economic Society Annual Conference, The Arne Ryde Workshop in Financial, SIFR, 15 th IZA European Summer School in Labor Economics, Nordic Finance Network (NFN) Research Workshop in Finance 24 th Annual Conference of the European Association of Labour Economists - EALE 2011 Tilburg University, Enter Jamboree, (discussant), Stockholm School of Economics 6 th Nordic Summer Institute in Labor Economics, The Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI), University of Iceland - annual Social Science Conference PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES Co-founder and board member of the Female Economist Network of Stockholm and Uppsala (FENSU) Affiliate, Household Economics and Finance (HEF) network, Copenhagen Business School Affiliate, Pension Research Center (PeRCent), Copenhagen Business School Referee for Labour Economics, Economics of Education Review, Journal of Family and Economic Issues PERSONAL INFORMATION Citizenship: Language skills: Icelandic Icelandic (native), English (fluent), Swedish (advanced), Danish (good), German (good) REFERENCES Magnus Johannesson

5 Paolo Sodini Department of Finance David Card UC Berkeley Juanna Juensen