• Modelling multilevel data under complex sampling designs: An empirical likelihood approach 

  Oguz-Alper, Melike; Berger, Yves G. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)

  Data used in social, behavioural, health or biological sciences may have a hierarchical structure due to the population of interest or the sampling design. Multilevel or marginal models are often used to analyse such ...

• Urban green. Integrating ecosystem extent and condition data in urban ecosystem accounts. Examples from the Oslo region 

  Garnåsjordet, Per Arild; Steinnes, Margrete; Cimburova, Zofie; Nowell, Megan Sara; Barton, David Nicholas; Aslaksen, Iulie (Journal article, 2021)

  The article enhances the knowledge base for the assessment of urban ecosystem services, within the United Nations System of Environmental-Economic Accounting Ecosystem Accounting (SEEA EA), recently adopted as an international ...

• Changes in the Educational Gradient of Fertility Not Driven by Changes in Preferences 

  Daniel, Ciganda; Angelo, Lorenti; Dommermuth, Lars (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 ...

• Revisions in the Norwegian National Accounts: accuracy, unbiasedness and efficiency in preliminary figures. 

  Helliesen, Magnus Kvåle; Hungnes, Håvard; Skjerpen, Terje (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)

  This paper investigates the quality of preliminary figures in the Norwegian National Accounts. To address the problem of few observations in such analyses, we use some recently developed system tests for forecast evaluation. ...

• Assessing income tax perturbations 

  Christiansen, Vidar; Jia, Zhiyang; Thoresen, Thor Olav (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)

  We present a scheme for analysing income tax perturbations, applied to a real Norwegian tax reform during 2016–2018. The framework decomposes the reform into a structural reform part and a tax level effect. The former ...

• Emission targets and coalition options for a small, ambitious country: An analysis of welfare costs and distributional impacts for Norway 

  Fæhn, Taran; Yonezawa, Hidemichi (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)

  We theoretically and numerically analyse the impacts for a small, open country with carbon abatement ambitions of joining a coalition with allowance trading. Besides welfare impacts for both the coalition and the small, ...

• Predicting poverty trends by survey-to-survey imputation: The challenge of comparability 

  Mathiassen, Astrid; Wold, Bjørn K. Getz (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)

  Poverty in low-income countries is usually measured using large and infrequent household consumption surveys. The challenge is to find methods to measure poverty rates more frequently. This study validates a survey-to-survey ...

• Flere eldre innvandrere i framtidens arbeidsstyrke 

  Tønnessen, Marianne; Syse, Astri (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)

  Antall innvandrere i Norge vil øke framover, men utelukkende i de eldre aldersgruppene. I aldersgruppen 55-66 år vil det bli nesten tre ganger så mange innvandrere de neste 20 årene. Hva vil dette bety for norsk arbeids- ...

• Modeling R&D spillovers to productivity: The effects of tax credits 

  von Brasch, Thomas Rolf Lydersen Lystad; Cappelen, Ådne; Hungnes, Håvard; Skjerpen, Terje (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)

  How much stimuli that should be attributed to R&D investments crucially depends on how the benefits of R&D reverberate throughout the economy. An extensive literature has found major spillover effects from R&D investments ...

• Buy to let housing investors in the Nordic countries 

  Bø, Erlend Eide (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)

  The last few decades have seen high population and housing price growth in the Nordic capital cities. The high prices have led to concerns about affordability of housing and unsustainable mortgage levels. Policy makers and ...

• Øremerking kan styrke aksepten for klimaavgifter 

  Lindhjem, Henrik; Bruvoll, Annegrete; Grimsrud, Kristine (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)

  Klimaavgifter møter motstand i Norge og i andre land, selv om klimaavgifter er det mest kostnadseffektive virkemidlet og helt nødvendig for å oppnå klimamålene. I dag avviker norsk klimaavgiftspolitikk fortsatt kraftig fra ...

• Who and how many can work from home? Evidence from task descriptions 

  Holgersen, Henning; Jia, Zhiyang; Svenkerud, Simen (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-02)

  The Covid-19 crisis has forced great societal changes, including forcing many to work from home (WFH) in an effort to limit the spread of the disease. The ability to work from home has long been considered a perk, but we ...

• The role of human capital in structural change and growth in an open economy Innovative and absorptive capacity effects 

  Bye, Brita; Fæhn, Taran (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)

• Politikk på politikk – derfor koster klimapolitikken 

  Bye, Brita; Fæhn, Taran; Kaushal, Kevin Raj; Storrøsten, Halvor Briseid; Yonezawa, Hidemichi (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)

  Norge har ambisiøse mål i klimapolitikken for ikke-kvotepliktig sektor. Kuttene kan gjennomføres billigst mulig ved å stille alle utslippskildene overfor samme utslippspris. Imidlertid oppstår en stor del av de samfunnsøkonomiske ...

• Fordelingseffekter av offentlig tjenesteproduksjon i Europa. 

  Aaberge, Rolf; Langørgen, Audun; Lindgren, Petter Y. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)

  Formålet med denne artikkelen er å belyse hvordan inntektsulikhet og fattigdom varierer mellom europeiske land, når verdien av offentlige tjenester inngår i inntektsbegrepet. De tradisjonelle fordelingsstudiene basert på ...

• Cultural norms and financial incentives: A model of how to fund universities 

  Gunnes, Trude (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)

  This paper derives the optimal compensation contract when two asymmetrically verifiable tasks are tied together, a cultural norm of behavior coexists with a financial incentive, and public funding is also a concern. To ...

• Not Just Later, but Fewer: Novel Trends in Cohort Fertility in the Nordic Countries 

  Hellstrand, Julia; Nisén, Jessica; Miranda, Vitor F.O.; Fallesen, Peter; Dommermuth, Lars; Myrskylä, Mikko (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)

  With historically similar patterns of high and stable cohort fertility and high levels of gender equality, the Nordic countries of Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark, and Iceland are seen as forerunners in demographic behavior. ...

• Interrelationships among fertility, internal migration, and proximity to nonresident family: A multilevel multiprocess analysis 

  Thomas, Michael J.; Dommermuth, Lars (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)

  Past research has found that relations to nonresident family can influence individual fertility and migration behaviors separately. However, fertility and migration outcomes may also be interrelated, suggesting potential ...

• Predicting the path of labor supply responses when state dependence matters. 

  Vattø, Trine Engh; Jia, Zhiyang (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)

  The standard labor supply model ignores possible inertia originating from individuals’ previous labor supply decisions and assumes immediate adjustments to policy reforms. In this study we develop a model where past labor ...

• Migration after union dissolution in the United States: The role of non-resident family 

  Spring, Amy; Mulder, Clara H.; Thomas, Michael J.; Cooke, Thomas J. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-02)

  Separation from a spouse or cohabiting partner is associated with a high likelihood of moving, even over long distances. In this paper, we use longitudinal data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics for the United States ...

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