Katrine Loken
Research Fellow
Joined RFBerlin as a Research Fellow in August 2025
Research area
Labour Economics Crime Migration Education Family Economics
About Katrine Loken
Katrine V. Løken is Professor of Economics at the Norwegian School of Economics and FAIR (Centre for Experimental Research on Fairness, Inequality and Rationality).
Her research focuses on leveraging high-quality Norwegian register data to examine the impacts of family policies, the correctional system, and high-skilled migration on individuals and families.
She has her PhD from the University of Bergen in 2010. At 31 she became the youngest ever female professor of economics in Norway. In 2017, she received the ERC Starting Grant for the project "Criminality, Victimization and Social Interactions». In 2021 she started as a Managing editor at Review of Economics Studies.
Loken’s work has been published in leading economic journals, including American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Public Economics and American Economic Journal: Applied Economics.
Her research focuses on leveraging high-quality Norwegian register data to examine the impacts of family policies, the correctional system, and high-skilled migration on individuals and families.
She has her PhD from the University of Bergen in 2010. At 31 she became the youngest ever female professor of economics in Norway. In 2017, she received the ERC Starting Grant for the project "Criminality, Victimization and Social Interactions». In 2021 she started as a Managing editor at Review of Economics Studies.
Loken’s work has been published in leading economic journals, including American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Public Economics and American Economic Journal: Applied Economics.
