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    • Earnings, disposable income, and consumption of allowed and rejected disability insurance applicants 

      Kostøl, Andreas Ravndal; Mogstad, Magne (Discussion papers;803, Working paper, 2015-03)
      Two key questions in thinking about the size and growth of the disability insurance program are to what extent it discourages work, and how valuable the insurance is to individuals and families. These questions motivate ...

    • Estimating occupational mobility with covariates 

      Modalsli, Jørgen (Discussion papers;804, Working paper, 2015-03)
      The Altham statistic is often used to calculate intergenerational associations in occupations in studies of historical social mobility. This paper presents a method to incorporate individual covariates into such estimates ...

    • Family welfare cultures 

      Dahl, Gordon B.; Kostøl, Andreas Ravndal; Mogstad, Magne (Discussion papers;782, Working paper, 2014-06)
      Strong intergenerational correlations in various types of welfare use have fueled a long-standing debate over whether welfare receipt in one generation causes welfare participation in the next generation. Some claim a ...

    • Improving educational pathways to social mobility. Evidence from Norway’s “Reform 94” 

      Bertrand, Marianne; Mogstad, Magne; Mountjoy, Jack (Discussion papers;916, Working paper, 2019-09)
      High school vocational education has a controversial history in the United States, largely due to a perceived tradeoff between teaching readily deployable occupational skills versus shunting mostly disadvantaged students ...

    • Intergenerational mobility in Norway, 1865-2011 

      Modalsli, Jørgen (Discussion papers;798, Working paper, 2015-02)
      There are large differences in intergenerational mobility between countries. However, little is known about how persistent such differences are, and how they evolve over time. This paper constructs a data set of 835,537 ...

    • 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) ...

    • When subsidized R&D-firms fail, do they still stimulate growth? Tracing knowledge by following employees across firms 

      Møen, Jarle (Discussion Papers;No. 399, Working paper, 2004)
      Public R&D subsidies aim to target particularly risky R&D and R&D with large externalities. One would expect many such projects to fail from a commercial point of view, but they may still produce knowledge with social ...

    • Why children of college graduates outperform their schoolmates : a study of cousins and adoptees 

      Hægeland, Torbjørn; Kirkebøen, Lars Johannessen; Raaum, Oddbjørn; Salvanes, Kjell G. (Discussion papers;No. 628, Working paper, 2010)
      Abstract: There is massive cross-sectional evidence that children of more educated parents outperform their schoolmates on tests, grade repetition and in educational attainment. However, evidence for causal interpretation ...