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Cash-on-hand and the duration of job search : quasi-experimental evidence from Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014-05-23)We identify the causal effect of lump-sum severance payments on non-employment duration in Norway by exploiting a discontinuity in eligibility at age 50. We find that a payment worth 1.2 months’ earnings at the median ... -
Cash-on-Hand and the duration of job search. Quasi-experimental evidence from Norway
(Discussion Papers;679, Working paper, 2012)We identify the causal effect of lump-sum severance payments on non-employment duration in Norway by exploiting a discontinuity in eligibility at age 50. We find that a severance payment worth 1.2 months' earnings at the ... -
Causal effects of paternity on children and parents
(Discussion Papers;No. 657, Working paper, 2011)Abstract: In this paper we use a parental leave reform directed towards fathers to identify the causal effects of paternity leave on children's and parents' outcomes. We document that paternity leave causes fathers to ... -
Causes and effects of measurement errors in educational attainment: Experiences from The European Social Survey in Norway
(Notater/Documents;2020/35, Working paper, 2020-10)From 2002 – 2016 Statistics Norway conducted the fieldwork in the Norwegian edition of The European Social Survey (ESS). ESS is a cross-national survey program that has been conducted every two years since 2002, each ... -
Certainty equivalence procedures in decision making under uncertainty: an empirical application
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Certainty euivalence procedures in the macroeconomic planning of an oil economy
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Challenges in predicting poverty trends using survey to survey imputation. Experiences from Malawi
(Discussion Paper;No. 900, Working paper, 2019-03-23)Poverty in low-income countries is usually measured with large and infrequent household surveys. A challenge is to find methods to measure poverty more frequently. The objective of this study is to test a method for ... -
"The champions of the 1. and 2. moments" : Nobelprisen i økonomi 2003 tildelt
(Journal article, 2004)Nobels minnepris i økonomi for året 2003 gikk til to giganter innenfor økonometrifaget: Briten Clive W. J. Granger og amerikaneren Robert F. Engle. Granger fikk prisen for sine metoder til å analysere tidsrekkedata som ... -
Change in Regime and Markov Models
(Discussion papers;204, Working paper, 1997-11)In this paper we point out that using a two-state Markov chain to describe change in regime makes it difficult to interpret the model since there is a bias towards frequent shifts. However, by using a finite Markov chain ... -
Changes in inventories in the Norwegian National Accounts. Accounting data as a source for changes in inventories
(Notater / Documents;2017/13, Working paper, 2017-02-09)Changes in inventories in the Norwegian National Accounts (NNA) are estimated as a residual in the supply and use tables. Hence, the changes are a mix of actual changes in inventories and statistical errors, which makes ... -
Changes in the Educational Gradient of Fertility Not Driven by Changes in Preferences
(Working paper, 2021)Fertility levels have historically been negatively correlated with the amount of information and material resources available to individuals and families. The recent reversal of this trend has been interpreted as a ... -
Changes in the pattern of household electricity demand over time
(Discussion Papers;No. 255, Working paper, 1999)Empirical estimates of long run effects on residential electricity demand from changes in the electricity price are usually estimated by cross-sectional variation in the current stock of electric household appliances across ... -
Changing returns to education across cohorts : selection, school system or skills obsolescence?
(Discussion Papers;No. 302, Working paper, 2001)Abstract: This paper investigates whether economic returns to education in Norway differ across cohorts. Differences in returns to education may arise from selection effects - the large increase in educational attainment ... -
Characteristics of parents with shared residence and father sole custody. Evidence from Norway 2012
(Discussion papers;780, Working paper, 2014-06)Shared residence for children has increased considerably in recent years among parents living apart in Norway, while mother sole custody is less common than before and father sole custody is still practiced by a minority. ... -
Characterization and measurement of duration dependence in hazard rate models
(Discussion Papers;No. 319, Working paper, 2002)Abstract: As is known from the economic literature, the notion of negative/positive duration dependence defined in terms of a decreasing/increasing hazard function can solely be used as a basis for revealing whether ... -
Chemicals in Environmental pressure information system (EPIS)
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Child care before age two and the development of language and numeracy: Evidence from a lottery
(Discussion papers;808, Working paper, 2015-05)Young children are thought to be vulnerable to separation from the primary caregiver/s. This raises concern about whether early child care enrollment may harm children's development. We use child care assignment lotteries ... -
Child care center staff composition and early child development
(Discussion Papers;No. 870, Working paper, 2017-12-13)We estimate effects of child care center staff composition on early child development. During the years our data covers, child care centers in Oslo were oversubscribed, and child care slots were allocated through a ... -
Child care in the welfare state : a critique of the Rosen model
(Discussion Papers;No. 269, Working paper, 2000)A recent study of the welfare state in Sweden, Rosen (1995, 1996, 1997), concludes that child care subsidies may lead to substantial deadweight losses that may impede economic growth and the future of the welfare state. ... -
Child care, parental labor supply and tax revenue
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)We study the impact of child care for toddlers on the labor supply of mothers and fathers in Norway. For identification, we exploit the staggered expansion across municipalities following a large child care reform from ...