• Education and cancer risk 

      Leuven, Edwin; Plug, Erik; Rønning, Marte (Discussion papers;777, Working paper, 2014-04)
      There exists a strong educational gradient in cancer risk, which has been documented in a wide range of populations. Yet relatively little is known about the extent to which education is causally linked to cancer incidence ...
    • Health status after cancer : does It matter which hospital you belong to? 

      Fiva, Jon Hernes; Hægeland, Torbjørn; Rønning, Marte (Discussion Papers;590, Working paper, 2009)
      Survival rates are widely used to compare quality of health care. In this paper we introduce post-illness employment as a supplemental indicator of successful treatment of serious diseases. Utilizing rich register based ...
    • Social Interaction Effects in Disability Pension Participation. Evidence from Plant Downsizing 

      Rege, Mari; Telle, Kjetil; Votruba, Mark (Discussion Papers;No. 496, Working paper, 2007)
      Abstract: We estimate the magnitude of social interaction effects in disability pension participation among older workers in Norway. Specifically, we investigate how a worker’s propensity to draw disability benefits is ...
    • The Effect of plant downsizing on disability pension utilization 

      Rege, Mari; Telle, Kjetil; Votruba, Mark (Discussion Papers;No. 435, Working paper, 2005)
      Abstract: We investigate the impact of plant downsizing on disability pension utilization in Norway. Plant downsizing substantially increases the disability entry rate of workers in affected plants. Workers originally ...
    • 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) ...
    • Transitions to disability and rehabilitation 

      Andreassen, Leif; Kornstad, Tom (Discussion Papers;641, Working paper, 2010)
      The discrete choice model of McFadden (1973) is used to quantify the desire for going into rehabilitation or disability among fully employed married women in Norway. Predictions using the model indicate that as much as 60 ...