Lars Osberg

Lars Osberg (PhD. Yale) has been a member of the Economics Department at Dalhousie University (Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada) since 1977. He also worked for a brief period at the University of Western Ontario. He is well known internationally for his contributions in the field of economics. His major research interests are the measurement and determinants of inequality, social exclusion and poverty, measurement of economic well-being, leisure co-ordination and economic well-being, time use and economic development, economic insecurity.

Osberg is in the top five percent of authors in economics according to: number of works, number of distinct works, number of distinct works(weighted by number of authors), number of journal pages, number of journal pages (weighted by number of authors), number of abstracts viewed in RePEc Services over the past 12 months (also when weighted by number of authors).