• How linear models can mask non-linear causal relationships : an application to family size and children's education 

      Mogstad, Magne; Wiswall, Matthew (Discussion Papers;586, Working paper, 2009)
      Many empirical studies specify outcomes as a linear function of endogenous regressors when conducting instrumental variable (IV) estimation. We show that commonly used tests for treatment effects, selection bias, and ...
    • Imperfect competition, compensating differentials and rent sharing in the U.S. labor market 

      Lamadon, Thibaut; Mogstad, Magne; Setzler, Bradley (Discussion papers;918, Working paper, 2019-10)
      The primary goal of our paper is to quantify the importance of imperfect competition in the U.S. labor market by estimating the size of rents earned by American firms and workers from ongoing employment relationships. To ...
    • Improving educational pathways to social mobility. Evidence from Norway’s “Reform 94” 

      Bertrand, Marianne; Mogstad, Magne; Mountjoy, Jack (Discussion papers;916, Working paper, 2019-09)
      High school vocational education has a controversial history in the United States, largely due to a perceived tradeoff between teaching readily deployable occupational skills versus shunting mostly disadvantaged students ...
    • Incarceration, Recidivism and Employment 

      Løken, Katrine Vellesen; Dahl, Gordon B.; Mogstad, Magne; Bhuller, Manudeep (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-02-10)
      Using a random judge design and panel data from Norway, we estimate that imprisonment discourages further criminal behavior, with reoffense probabilities falling by 29 percentage points and criminal charges dropping by 11 ...
    • Income mobility as an equalizer of permanent income 

      Aaberge, Rolf; Mogstad, Magne (Discussion papers;769, Working paper, 2014-01)
      Do market-orientated economies with relatively large cross-sectional levels of inequality have higher income mobility and therefore less permanent inequality? To answer this question, we introduce a formal representation ...
    • Inequality in current and lifetime income 

      Aaberge, Rolf; Mogstad, Magne (Discussion papers;726, Working paper, 2012-12)
      Standard theory of intertemporal choice predicts that people smooth out life-cycle changes in income by borrowing and saving, such that their standard of living in any given year depends more on lifetime income than on ...
    • Inequality in current and lifetime income 

      Aaberge, Rolf; Mogstad, Magne (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014-08-14)
      To gauge inequality in living standards, the distribution of lifetime income is likely to be more relevant than the distribution of current income. Yet, empirical studies of income inequality are typically based on ...
    • Is universal child care leveling the playing field? 

      Havnes, Tarjei; Mogstad, Magne (Discussion papers;774, Working paper, 2014-03)
      We assess the case for universal child care programs in the context of a Norwegian reform which led to a large-scale expansion of subsidized child care. We use non-linear difference-in-differences methods to estimate the ...
    • Life-cycle bias and the returns to schooling in current and lifetime earnings 

      Bhuller, Manudeep; Mogstad, Magne; Salvanes, Kjell G. (Discussion Papers;no. 666, Working paper, 2011)
      Abstract: This paper uses a unique data set with nearly career-long earnings histories to provide evidence on the returns to schooling in current and lifetime earnings. We use these results to assess the importance of ...
    • Local governments, in-kind transfers, and economic inequality 

      Aaberge, Rolf; Eika, Lasse; Langørgen, Audun; Mogstad, Magne (Discussion papers;888, Working paper, 2018-11)
      We examine how in-kind transfers provided by local governments affect economic inequality. The allocation of in-kind transfers to households and the adjustment for differences in needs are derived from a model of local ...
    • Lønner det seg å arbeide? 

      Mogstad, Magne; Solli, Ingeborg Foldøy; Wist, Arne Kolbeinstveit (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2006)
      Det er et uttalt politisk mål i den norske arbeids- og sosialpolitikken at det skal lønne seg å være i arbeide framfor å være stønadsmottaker. Utformingen av det norske skatte- og stønadssystemet er imidlertid slik at ...
    • Measuring income inequality under restricted interpersonal comparability 

      Mogstad, Magne (Discussion Papers;No. 498, Working paper, 2007)
      Abstract: The standard approach in empirical analyses of income distributions is to estimate income inequality in a country under the assumption of full interpersonal comparability of income. To be meaningful, this method ...
    • Measuring long-term inequality of opportunity 

      Aaberge, Rolf; Mogstad, Magne; Peragine, Vito (Discussion Papers;No. 620, Working paper, 2010)
      Abstract: In this paper, we introduce and apply a general framework for evaluating long-term income distributions according to the Equality of Opportunity principle (EOp). Our framework allows for both an ex-ante and an ...
    • Measuring long-term inequality of opportunity 

      Aaberge, Rolf; Mogstad, Magne; Peragine, Vito (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011)
      Abstract In this paper, we introduce a new family of rank-dependent measures of inequality and social welfare consistent with the equality of opportunity (EOp) principle. The proposed framework can be used to measure ...
    • No child left behind : universal child care and children's long-run outcomes 

      Havnes, Tarjei; Mogstad, Magne (Discussion Papers;582, Working paper, 2009)
      There is a heated debate in the US and Canada, as well as in many European countries, about a move towards subsidized, universally accessible child care. At the same time, studies on universal child care and child development ...
    • Older or Wealthier? : the Impact of Age Adjustments on the Wealth Inequality Ranking of Countries 

      Almås, Ingvild; Mogstad, Magne (Discussion Papers;583, Working paper, 2009)
      Differences in individual wealth holdings are widely viewed as a driving force of economic inequality. However, as this finding relies on cross-section data, we may confuse older with wealthier. We propose a new method to ...
    • On the definition and measurement of chronic poverty 

      Aaberge, Rolf; Mogstad, Magne (Discussion Papers;No. 497, Working paper, 2007)
      Abstract: As an alternative to the conventional methods for measuring chronic poverty, this paper proposes an interpersonal comparable measure of permanent income as a basis for defining and measuring chronic poverty. ...
    • On the measurement of long-term income inequality and income mobility 

      Aaberge, Rolf; Mogstad, Magne (Discussion Papers;No. 622, Working paper, 2010)
      Abstract: This paper proposes a two-step aggregation method for measuring long-term income inequality and income mobility, where mobility is defined as an equalizer of long-term income. The first step consists of aggregating ...
    • Ranking intersecting distribution functions 

      Aaberge, Rolf; Havnes, Tarjei; Mogstad, Magne (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Second-degree dominance has become a widely accepted criterion for ordering distribution functions according to social welfare. However, it provides only a partial ordering, and it may fail to rank distributions that ...
    • Region-Specific versus country-specific poverty lines in analysis of poverty 

      Mogstad, Magne; Langørgen, Audun; Aaberge, Rolf (Discussion Papers;No. 408, Working paper, 2005)
      Abstract: The standard practice in most OECD countries is to measure and evaluate poverty on the basis of a poverty line defined as a specific proportion of the median equivalent income within a country. However, this ...