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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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. ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
A calibrated imputation method for secondary data analysis of survey data
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-11-21)In practical survey sampling, missing data are unavoidable due to nonresponse, rejected observations by editing, disclosure control, or outlier suppression. We propose a calibrated imputation approach so that valid point ... -
A financial accelerator in the business sector of a macro-econometric model of a small open economy
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)We have incorporated afinancial accelerator mechanism operating through investments in thebusiness sector in a dynamic macroeconometric model of the Norwegian economy. In this newand amended model aggregated credit and ... -
Information preserving regression-based tools for statistical disclosure control
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-01)This paper presents a unified framework for regression-based statistical disclosure control for microdata. A basic method, known as information preserving statistical obfuscation (IPSO), produces synthetic data that preserve ... -
Moving (back) to greener pastures? Social benefits and costs of climate forest planting in Norway
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-12-27)Norway is considering a national afforestation program for greenhouse gas sequestration on recently abandoned semi-natural pastureland. However, the program may have negative impacts on landscape aesthetics and biodiversity. ... -
A Variance Estimation R-package for Repeated Surveys - Useful for Estimates of Changes in Quarterly and Annual Averages
(Journal article, 2016)This paper presents a newly developed R-package for calculation of variances of estimates based on data from several waves of a repeated survey with partly overlapping samples. Development of the package is a part of ... -
Methods library of embedded R functions at Statistics Norway
(Journal article, 2017)Statistics Norway is modernising the production processes. An important element in this work is a library of functions for statistical computations. In principle, the functions in such a methods library can be programmed ... -
Trade and foreign direct investment‐related impacts of Brexit
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-08)We offer a general-equilibrium analysis of Brexit incorporating the state-of-the-art differences in productivity and firms' selection within manufacturing sectors a la Melitz (Econometrica, 2003, 71, 1695) and multinationals ...