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What Causes the Child Penalty? Evidence from Same Sex Couples and Policy Reforms
(Discussion Paper;No. 902, Working paper, 2019-03-29)Women experience significant reductions in labor market income following the birth of children, while their male partners experience no such income drops. This “relative child penalty” has been well documented and accounts ... -
What makes full-time employed women satisfied with their working hours?
(Discussion Papers;632, Working paper, 2010)In spite of extended parental leaves, tremendous improvement in day-care availability, and a cultural climate that is supportive of women's full-time work, Norwegian women still have one of the highest female part-time ... -
When can micro properties be used to predict aggregate demand?
(Discussion Papers;No. 452, Working paper, 2006)Abstract: Heterogeneity in consumer behaviour creates differences in demand responses, which may create problems with aggregation across consumers. If aggregation problems exist, results from estimation based on aggregate ... -
When is mighty Gazprom good for Russia?
(Discussion Papers;No 526, Working paper, 2007)Abstract: In the late 1990s, several proposals for a structural reform that would bring competition and market prices to the Russian gas industry were intensely debated. Splitting up Russian gas monopolist Gazprom into ... -
When subsidized R&D-firms fail, do they still stimulate growth? Tracing knowledge by following employees across firms
(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 ... -
Who and how many can work from home in Norway? - Evidence from task descriptions
(Discussion Paper;No. 935, Working paper, 2020-06)The COVID-19 crisis has forced great societal changes, including forcing many to work remotely (work from home) in an effort to increase social distancing. The ability to work fromhome has long been considered a perk, but ... -
Who benefited from industrialization? The local effects of hydropower technology adoption
(Discussion Papers;No. 874, Working paper, 2018-05-02)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 ... -
Who benefits from homework assignments?
(Discussion Papers;No. 566, Working paper, 2008)Abstract: Using Dutch data on pupils in elementary school this paper is the first empirical study that analyzes whether assigning homework has an heterogeneous impact on pupil achievement. Addressing potential biases that ... -
Why are there so few female entrepreneurs? An examination of gender differences in entrepreneurship using Norwegian registry data
(Discussion papers;790, Working paper, 2014-11)Women make up almost 50 percent of the employed population in Norway, but only about 25 percent of the entrepreneurs. Using registry data on the whole population we address gender differences in the propensity to become ... -
Why children of college graduates outperform their schoolmates : a study of cousins and adoptees
(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 ... -
Why do wealthy parents have wealthy children?
(Discussion papers;813, Working paper, 2015-06)Strong intergenerational correlations in wealth have fueled a long-standing debate over why children of wealthy parents tend to be well off themselves. We investigate the role of family background in determining children's ... -
Why educated mothers don't make educated children? : a statistical study in the intergenerational transmission of schooling
(Discussion Papers;No. 563, Working paper, 2008)Abstract: More educated parents are observed to have better educated children. From a policy point of view, however, it is important to distinguish between causation and selection. Researchers trying to control for ... -
Why has the Norwegian krone exchange rate been persistently weak? A fully simultaneous VAR approach
(Discussion Paper;No. 981, Working paper, 2022-05)We identify variables that help explain the persistent weakness of the Norwegian krone since 2016 within a fully simultaneous model of the underlying process driving the krone-euro exchange rate. In addition to a set of ... -
Why some corporations pay more tax than necessary
(Discussion Papers;No. 211, Working paper, 1998)It has been noticed in several countries that many corporations do not claim all of their allowable tax depreciation deductions, despite incurring a higher tax cost. There are several possible explanations. First, the ... -
Will it float? The New Keynesian Phillips curve tested on OECD panel data
(Discussion Papers;No. 463, Working paper, 2006)Abstract: Galí, Gertler and Lòpez-Salido (2005), GGL, assert that the hybrid New Keynesian Phillips curve, NPC, is robust to different choices of estimation procedure and so some forms of specification bias. Specifically, ... -
Will restrictive demand policy improve public sector balances?
(Discussion Paper;No. 66, Working paper, 1991-10)A policy simulation on the Norwegian macroeceometric model MODAG indicates that there are large automatic stabilizers in the system of government revenues and expenditure in Norway, especially in the short and medium term. ... -
Will the Norwegian pension reform reach its goals? : an integrated micro-macro assessment
(Discussion Papers;No. 557, Working paper, 2008)Abstract: The Norwegian pension reform of 2006 intends to (1) improve long run fiscal sustainability by reducing the growth in public old-age expenditures, (2) strengthen labour supply incentives, and (3) maintain the ... -
Willingness to pay for dental fear treatment : is supplying fear treatment socially beneficial?
(Discussion Papers;No. 334, Working paper, 2002)Abstract: The aim of this paper is to discuss the social desirability of a treatment program for patients with dental fear. The program consisted of three different fear treatments, cognitive therapy, applied relaxation ... -
Women’s wages and fertility revisited. Evidence from Norway
(Discussion papers;784, Working paper, 2014-06)Since the 1960s, Beckers’ New Home Economics has provided a central theoretical framework for studies of fertility behaviour. New Home Economics predict a negative effect of female wages on fertility. This prediction has ... -
Work less but stay longer - Mature worker response to a flexibility reform
(Discussion Paper;No. 937, Working paper, 2020-08)Reducing the eligibility age for pension benefits is considered by many as a policy that will discourage labor supply by mature workers. This paper analyzes a recent Norwegian pension reform which effectively lowered the ...