Professor Marjia Aartsen

Centre for Welfare and Labour Research, OsloMet, Norway

Fields of interest

Public Economics, Industrial Organization, Microeconomic Theory.

Current position

1993 –   Professor of Economics, Toulouse 1 Capitole University, France

Education

1987 – Ph.D. in Economics, University of Louvain

Grants and awards

2006 – 2011 – Senior Member of Institut Universitaire de France

2005 -Fellow of the Commission Economique de la Nation

1996 – Junior member of Institut Universitaire de France

Senior member of Institut universitaire de France (Promotion 2006), Chair of Public

Economics, since February 2007.

Fellow: CEPR, CESifo and IZA.

Editorial activities

Managing editor: German Economic Review (2006-2014)

Associate editor: Journal of Public Economics (1997-2012), Journal of Public Economic Theory (2002- ), BE Journals in Economic Analysis and Policy (2001-2010), Économie Publique (2008- ), Journal of Population Economics (2008- ), Finanzarchiv (2010 -), Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics (2016 -).

Editor: Berkeley Electronic Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy (2010 – 2012)

Publications

Selected Articles in refereed journals

Le, Giang Huong; Aartsen, Marja (2022). Understanding volunteering intensity in older volunteers. Ageing & Society.

Pavlidis, George; Motel-Klingebiel, Andreas; Aartsen, Marja (2022). Exclusion from social relations in later life: on the gendered associations of social networks with mental wellbeing. Aging & Mental Health.

Veenstra, Marijke; Aartsen, Marja (2022). Life-course income trajectories of men and women in Norway: Implications for self-rated health in later life. European Journal of Public Health. Vol. 32.

Pavlidis, George; Hansen, Thomas; Motel-Klingebiel, Andreas; Aartsen, Marja (2022). Network and solitude satisfaction as modifiers of disadvantages in the quality of life of older persons who are challenged by exclusion from social relations: a gender stratified analysis. Applied Research in Quality of Life. Vol. 17.

Orsholits, Dan; Cullati, Stéphane; Ghisletta, Paolo; Aartsen, Marja; Oris, Michel; Studer, Matthias; Maurer, Jürgen; Perna, Laura; Gouveia, Élvio; Marques, Adilson; Peralta, Miguel; Marconcin, Priscila; Kliegel, Matthias; Ihle, Andreas (2022). How Welfare Regimes Moderate the Associations Between Cognitive Aging, Education, and Occupation. The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences. Vol. 77.

Hansen, Thomas; Kafková, Marcela Petrová; Katz, Ruth; Lowenstein, Ariela; Naim, Sigal; Pavlidis, George; Villar, Feliciano; Walsh, Kieran; Aartsen, Marja (2021). Exclusion from social relations in later life: Micro-and macro-level patterns and correlations in a european perspective. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH). Vol. 18.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/2996610

Rapoliene, Grazina; Aartsen, Marja (2021). Lonely societies: low trust societies? Further explanations for national variations in loneliness among older Europeans. European Journal of Ageing.

Aartsen, Marja; Walsh, Kieran; Villar, Feliciano; Lowenstein, Ariela; Katz, Ruth; Naim, Sigal; Motel-Klingebiel, Andreas; Wanka, Anna; Urbaniak, Anna Maria; Hansen, Thomas; Vidovićová, Lucie (2021). Exclusion from Social Relations in Later Life and the Role of Gender: A Heuristic Model. Gender a výzkum. Vol. 22.

Waldegrave, Charles; Aartsen, Marja; Lowenstein, Ariela; Sepannen, Marjaana; Niemi, M; Melchiorre, G; Lamura, Giovanni (2021). Conflicting relations, abuse and discrimination experienced by older adults. Walsh, Kieran; Scharf, Thomas; Van Regenmortel, Sofie; Wanka, Anna (Ed.). Social exclusion in later life. Interdisciplinary and policy perspectives. Chapter 9. p. 119-132. Springer.

Morgan, Deborah; Dahlberg, Lena; Waldegrave, Charles; Mikulionienė, Sarmitė; Rapoliene, Grazina; Lamura, Giovanni; Aartsen, Marja (2021). Revisiting loneliness: Individual and country-level changes. Walsh, Kieran; Scharf, Thomas; Van Regenmortel, Sofie; Wanka, Anna (Ed.). Social exclusion in later life. Interdisciplinary and policy perspectives. Chapter 8. p. 99-117. Springer.