Employee Profile

Ingrid Hjort

Postdoctoral Fellow

Department of Economics

Room number B3I-022
Phone +4797757227
E-mail ingrid.hjort@bi.no

Biography

Ingrid Hjort is postdoctoral fellow at BI Norwegian Business School. Her main research area is within cost benefit analysis, public health and environmental economics. Personal webpage

https://sites.google.com/view/ingridhjort

Area of Expertise

Climate economics
Cost benefit analysis
Covid-19
Game Theory
Environmental economics
Health economics
Microeconomics

Publications

Shows 4 of 4 publication(s)

Article Ingrid Hjort, Gry Østenstad (2025)

Will women save the planet? Correlation, causality, and common causes

Global Environmental Change 95 Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2025.103077

While evidence suggests a strong positive cross-country correlation between women’s empowerment and progress on environmental and climate issues, the causal mechanisms remain unclear. This article critically examines the assumption that women’s empowerment drives climate action and environmental protection. By exploring possible causal channels and existing empirical evidence, we highlight the need to distinguish causality from correlation in this domain. We call for an exploration into whether advancements in women’s empowerment and environmental issues are determined by shared underlying factors connected to economic, political and institutional aspects. A more nuanced understanding of these complex interrelations is essential for developing effective and evidence-based environmental and gender policies.

Article Martin Henrik Hunting, Ingrid Hjort, Hege Marie Gjefsen (2023)

Covid-19 blant gjestearbeidere i Norge

Tidsskrift for samfunnsforskning (TfS) 64(4) p. 303-319 Doi: https://doi.org/10.18261/tfs.64.4.1

COVID-19 among guestworkers in Norway

Review article Ingrid Cathrine Hjort (2016)

Potential Climate Risks in Financial Markets: Report from a workshop, January 20, 2016

Memorandum from Department of Economics, University of Oslo

Review article Ingrid Cathrine Hjort (2016)

Potential Climate Risks in Financial Markets: A Literature Overview

Memorandum from Department of Economics, University of Oslo

Shows 5 of 19 publication(s)

Feature article Ingrid Hjort, Eline Aas, Gudrun Maria Waaler Bjørnelv, Christina Hansen Edwards (2025)