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Trygve Magnus Haavelmo was born in Skedsmo near Oslo in 1911. In 1930 he entered the University of Oslo and obtained a degree in economics in 1933. He had studied under Ragnar Frisch and began upon graduation as one of many assistants at Frisch’s newly founded Institute of Economics.

In 1935 he was appointed head of computations (chief computor) at the Institute.

His biography is available in 47 different languages on Wikipedia.

Trygve Haavelmo by Daniel B. Klein, Ryan Daza, and Hannah Mead.

Trygve Magnus Haavelmo (13 December – 28 July ), born in Skedsmo, Norway, was an economist whose research interests centered on econometrics.

Trygve Haavelmo was highly known as a fervent economist and a promising professor who garnered a Nobel Prize in the s.

Trygve Haavelmo, Ever since Sir William Petty began recording (and inventing) economic data in 17th Century Britain, empirical work.

In the autumn term 1936 Haavelmo studied at the Department of Statistics, London University College with Jerzy Neyman and Egon Pearson. In the spring of 1938 he made a study tour to Berlin, Geneva (Jan Tinbergen) and Oxford (Jakob Marschak).

In the academic year 1938-1939 Haavelmo was a lecturer in statistics at the University of Aarhus. In June 1939 Haavelmo left for the U.S. on a study trip meant to last 1 to 1 1/2 years. In 1940-41 Haavelmo had a Rockefeller Fellowship in New York and spent at Harvard University and travelling around.

In 1942-1944 Haavelmo worked as a statistician at Nortraship