AGNAR F. HELGASON
Ph.D. Student in Political Science
I am a second year Ph.D. student in the Department of Political Science at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. I hail from Reykjavik, Iceland, where I lived for most of my life. Before moving to the US, I completed degrees in Economics and in International Affairs at the University of Iceland and in Comparative Politics at the London School of Economics. For now there isn't much to see here, but hopefully I will have some working papers up in the near future.
Research Interests
Comparative Politics
Taxation and Redistribution
Electoral Institutions
Accountability and Representation
Politics of Advanced Democracies
Political Methodology
Econometrics
Causal Inference
Natural Experiments
Education
September 2010 - Present
The Ohio State University
Ph.D. Student in Political Science
- Major: Comparative Politics
- Minor: Political Methodology
September 2008 - August 2009
London School of Economics and Political Science
M.Sc. Comparative Politics, with distinction
- Stream: Politics & Markets
- Thesis: Retrenchment or Resilience? The Development of the Icelandic Welfare State, 1995-2007
August 2007 - May 2008
University of Iceland
Diploma, International Affairs, with distinction
- 30 ECTS part-time program
August 2002 - May 2006
University of Iceland
B.Sc. Economics
- Thesis: The Momentum Effect on Stock Markets
Skills
Languages
- Icelandic
- Danish
- Spanish
Software/Programming
- Stata
- R
- LaTeX
- Excel
- HTML
Awards, Grants and Fellowships
- Frances Aumann Grant, April 2011
Department of Political Science, The Ohio State University - Behavioral Sciences Fellowship, 2010-
College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, The Ohio State University - University Fellowship, 2010-2011
Graduate School, The Ohio State University - Bill Letwin Prize for Best Performance in the Politics & Markets Stream
Department of Government, LSE
Related Work Experience
January 2010 - July 2010
Ministry of Social Affairs and Social Security, Iceland
Policy Advisor
Area of focus: Housing policy and household debt restructuring
June 2006 - August 2008
Landsbankinn Bank, Iceland
Junior Analyst, Corporate Banking
Area of focus: Housing market
Non-academic Publications
Helgason, Agnar F. and Gudjon I. Eiriksson (2005). Chelsea 1905-2005: frá Feita-Willie til Eiðs Smára [Chelsea 1905-2005: from Fat-Willie to Eidur Smari]. Iceland:Holar Publishing.
Helgason, Agnar F. and Gudjon I. Eiriksson (2004). Bestu knattspyrnulið Evrópu [Best Football Clubs of Europe]. Iceland:Holar Publishing.
Helgason, Agnar F. and Gudjon I. Eiriksson (2001). Rauði herinn: saga Liverpool 1892-2001 [The Red Army: The History of Liverpool 1892-2001]. Iceland:Holar Publishing.
Helgason, Agnar F. and Gudjon I. Eiriksson (2000). Rauðu djöflarnir: knattspyrnustjörnurnar í sögu Manchester United [The Red Devils: The Football Legends in History of Manchester United]. Iceland:Holar Publishing.
Helgason, Agnar F. and Gudjon I. Eiriksson (1999). Rauðu djöflarnir: saga Manchester United 1878-1999 [The Red Devils: The History of Manchester United 1878-1999]. Iceland:Holar Publishing.
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