BIO

N. Anders Klevmarken is professor of Econometrics at Uppsala University. He holds a PhD in statistics from Stockholm University. 1976-1985 he held the chair in Statistics at Gothenburg University, 1985-1994 he was professor of Econometrics at the Swedish Council for Humanities and Social sciences. He has also had research positions at Statistics Sweden and The Industrial Institute for Economic and Social Research (IUI), been department head at the National Social Insurance Board (RFV) and visiting professor/scholar to the University of Georgia and the University of Michigan. In 1992 Klevmarken was the president of the European Society for Population Economics. 1990-1995 he served as a member of the Swedish Council for Social Research. He is currently a member of the scientific council of Statistics Sweden and of the standing committee for the consumer price index. In the beginning of the 1980s Klevmarken initiated the Swedish household panel survey Household Market and Nonmarket Activities (HUS), a project for which he was the director until 1993. He is currently leader of the Swedish team of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). He has more than twenty years of experience with data collection including time-use data and survey research. Most of Klevmarken’s economic research falls within the area of applied micro econometrics including applications to labor economics, demand analysis, time-use, distributional issues, and micro simulation.