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    • The Incentive effects of property taxation: Evidence from Norwegian school districts 

      Fiva, Jon Hernes; Rønning, Marte (Discussion Papers;No. 484, Working paper, 2006)
      Abstract: Recent theoretical contributions indicate favorable incentive effects of property taxation on public service providers. The object of this paper is to confront these theories with data from Norwegian school ...
    • The relative contribution of genetic and environmental factors to cancer risk and cancer mortality in Norway 

      Leuven, Edwin; Plug, Erik; Rønning, Marte (Discussion papers;776, Working paper, 2014-04)
      Using Norwegian cancer registry data we study twin and non-twin siblings to decompose variation in cancer at most common sites and cancer mortality into a genetic, shared environment and individual (unshared environmental) ...
    • Who benefits from homework assignments? 

      Rønning, Marte (Discussion Papers;No. 566, Working paper, 2008)
      Abstract: Using Dutch data on pupils in elementary school this paper is the first empirical study that analyzes whether assigning homework has an heterogeneous impact on pupil achievement. Addressing potential biases that ...
    • Why do wealthy parents have wealthy children? 

      Fagereng, Andreas; Mogstad, Magne; Rønning, Marte (Discussion papers;813, Working paper, 2015-06)
      Strong intergenerational correlations in wealth have fueled a long-standing debate over why children of wealthy parents tend to be well off themselves. We investigate the role of family background in determining children's ...