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Regional variation in health care utilization and mortality
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-02-19)Geographic variation in health care utilization has raised concerns of possible inefficiencies in health care supply, as differences are often not reflected in health outcomes. Using comprehensive Norwegian microdata, we ... -
Who benefited from industrialization? The local effects of hydropower technology adoption in Norway
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)This paper studies the impact of the construction of hydropower facilities on labor market outcomes in Norway at the turn of the twentieth century (1891–1920). The sudden breakthrough in hydropower technology provides a ... -
Optimal Climate Policy in the Presence of Another Country's Climate Policy
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-03-25)The allowances in an emission trading system (ETS) are commonly allocated for free to the emission-intensive and trade-exposed sector, e.g., in the form of output-based allocation (OBA). Recently an approach combining OBA ... -
Productivity Dispersion and Measurement Error
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-11-11)Several reasons have been put forward to explain the high dispersion of productivity across establishments: quality of management, different input usage and market distortions, to name but a few. Although it is acknowledged ... -
Job displacement and crime: Evidence from Norwegian register data
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-09)We estimate the job displacement effect on criminal behavior for young adult Norwegian men separated from their plant of employment during a mass layoff. Displaced workers experience a 20 percent increase in criminal charge ... -
The impacts of the EU ETS on Norwegian plants’ environmental and economic performance
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-02-28)This paper examines the impacts of the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) on the environmental and economic performance of Norwegian plants. The ETS is regarded as the cornerstone climate policy in the EU and Norway, but ... -
Internal Migration and the Role of Intergenerational Family Ties and Life Events
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-03-14)Objective This article examines how the migration behavior of older parents and adult children might be influenced by the geographical configuration of nonresident family networks and the emergence of “linked” life events. ... -
On the Effects of Linking Cap‑and‑Trade Systems for CO2 Emissions
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-01-23)Linkage of national cap-and-trade systems is typically advocated by economists on a general analogy with the beneficial linkage of free-trade areas and on the specific grounds that linkage will ensure cost effectiveness ... -
Using the generalised Q method in ecological economics: A better way to capture representative values and perspectives in ecosystem service management.
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-01-20)The Q-method identifies groups of people with similar or diverging perspectives and is increasingly used for analysing resource conflicts. However, it is uninformative on the prevalence of perspectives in the general ... -
How does temperature vary over time?: evidence on the stationary and fractal nature of temperature fluctuations
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-03-20)The paper analyses temperature data from 96 selected weather stations world wide, and from reconstructed northern hemisphere temperature data over the last two millennia. Using a non‐parametric test, we find that the ... -
Assortative labor matching, city size, and the education level of workers
(Working paper, 2020)Recent research shows that thicker labor markets display better assortative matching. Our contribution addresses identification challenges and heterogeneity of effects, in particular with respect to education. Using a rich ... -
Scheduled to gain: short- and longer-run educational effects of examination scheduling
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)This article presents findings concerning the effect of examination timing on high-stakes exam scores and longer-run outcomes. It shows that random variations in exam schedules that increase the time students have to ... -
Heterogeneity of the Carnegie Effect
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-08-15)The Carnegie effect is the harm inherited wealth does to a recipient's work effort. Carnegie effect estimates are few, reflecting that such effects are hard to trace. Most previous studies rely on data from limited-size ... -
Problematic response margins in the estimation of the elasticity of taxable income
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-10-30)The elasticity of taxable income (ETI) holds the promise of representing a summary measure of tax efciency costs, which means that further information about the behavioral components of the ETI is not required for its use ... -
Parental leave policies and continued childbearing in Iceland, Norway, and Sweden
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Demographic theories maintain that family policies that support gender equality may lead to higher fertility levels in postindustrial societies. This phenomenon is often exemplified by the situation in the Nordic countries. ... -
A Common Base Answer to the Question “Which Country is Most Redistributive?”
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)We believe that what most authors have in mind when referring to the “most redistributive country” is a tax/transfer schedule that is most redistributive across all pre‐tax/transfer income distributions. To measure each ... -
Parenthood and Couples’ Relative Earnings in Norway
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)With the advance of the gender revolution, income dynamics in couples are changing. Nonetheless, in most Western societies, parenthood still promotes specialized gender roles. Utilizing Norwegian register data on all married ... -
29 recommendations to combat social inequalities in health. The Norwegian Council on Social Inequalities in Health
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)All political parties in Norway agree that social inequalities in health comprise a public health problem and should be reduced. Against this background, the Council on Social Inequalities in Health has taken action to ... -
Environmental Sustainability Perspectives of the Nordic Diet
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)"The Nordic diet” is an umbrella term that compasses any interpretation that combines Food-Based Dietary Guidelines (FBDGs) with local Nordic foods. The five Nordic countries have collaborated on Nordic Nutrition Recommendations ... -
Incarceration, Recidivism and Employment
(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 ...
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