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Factoring the environmental Kuznets curve evidence from Norway
(Discussion Papers;No. 275, Working paper, 2000)The environmental Kuznets curve theory suggests that economic growth may reduce environmental problems. In this article, we analyze the changes in environmentally damaging emissions to air in Norway from 1980 to 1996. In ... -
Family composition and transitions into long-term care services among the elderly
(Discussion Paper;No. 954, Working paper, 2021-05)Elderly’s use of long-term care (LTC) services are likely to be influenced by family members, but there is scarce research on the role played by partners and/or adult children, especially taking geographic proximity into ... -
Family formation, fatherhood and crime : an invitation to a broader perspectives on crime and family transitions
(Discussion Papers; 579, Working paper, 2009)Using large-scale individual-level Norwegian administrative register data on the total population of men, we study the offending rates five years prior to and after five different family-related transitions. Leading ... -
Family policies and fertility : parents' parental leave use, childcare availability, the introduction of childcare cash benefit and continued childbearing in Norway
(Discussion Papers;No 564, Working paper, 2008)Abstract: We address the relationship between family policies and fertility in Norway, including three somewhat different policies: parental leave, formal childcare, and the childcare cash benefit. Norwegian family policy ... -
Family welfare cultures
(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 ... -
Faustmann and the Climate
(Discussion papers;701, Working paper, 2012-08)This paper presents an adjusted Faustmann Rule for optimal harvest of a forest in the presence of a social cost of carbon emissions. A contribution of the paper is to do this within theoretical and numerical frameworks ... -
Female labour participation rates in Norway - trends and cycles
(Discussion Papers;No. 253, Working paper, 1999)Norwegian female labour participation rates have increased steadily since the beginning of the seventies. This paper address several issues concerning female labour participation series for the period 1972-1997. The main ... -
Field of study, earnings and selfselection
(Discussion papers;794, Working paper, 2015-01)Why do individuals choose different types of post-secondary education, and what are the labor market consequences of those choices? We show that answering these questions is difficult because individuals choose between ... -
The financial accelerator : evidence using a procedure of structural model design
(Discussion Papers;569, Working paper, 2008)We find empirical evidence of a financial accelerator using a data based procedure of Structural Model Design. Credit to firms, asset prices and aggregate economic activity interact over the business cycle in our empirical ... -
The Financial accelerator and the real economy. Self-reinforcing feedback loops in a core macro econometric model for Norway
(Discussion Papers;No. 668, Working paper, 2011)Abstract: This paper gives a brief description and studies the salient features of a core macro-econometric model that allows for self-reinforcing co-movements between credit, asset prices and real economic activity, often ... -
Financial deregulation and consumer behavior: the Norwegian experience
(Discussion Papers;No. 156, Working paper, 1995)The present paper uses the model by Campbell and Mankiw (1991) to examine the Norwegian consumer behavior and the role of the financial deregulation during the 1980s. For quarterly data on non-durables and services, we ... -
Financial deregulation and household saving : the Norwegian experience revisited
(Discussion Papers;No. 361, Working paper, 2003)Abstract: I use new micro data to study the effects of credit deregulation on the Norwegian household savings decline in the mid-1980s. This paper has three main findings. First, the decline in saving started in 1983, ... -
Financial incentives and study duration in higher education
(Discussion papers;714, Working paper, 2012-11)This paper investigates to which extent students in higher education respond to financial incentives by adjusting their study behavior. Students in Norway who completed certain graduate study programs between autumn 1990 ... -
First union formation among the children of immigrants in Norway: Timing and choice of union type
(Discussion papers;917, Working paper, 2019-09)Using Norwegian register data on all individuals born 1985 to 2000 who were either nativeborn or who immigrated as children or teens (N=1,013,734), the current study investigated timing of first co-residential union and ... -
Fiscal and spending behavior of local governments : an empirical analysis based on Norwegian data
(Discussion Papers;No. 196, Working paper, 1997)This paper treats local governments as utility maximizing agents when they allocate resources among different service sectors. We present estimates for eight service sectors, based on a modified version of the extended ... -
Fiscal effects of the Norwegian pension reform – A micro-macro assessment
(Discussion Papers;No. 821 (2015), Working paper, 2015)The main goal of the Norwegian pension reform of 2011 is to improve long run fiscal sustainability, not least through stronger labour supply incentives. We assess to what extent the reform is likely to live up to these ... -
Fiscal expansion, the budget deficit and the economy: Norway 1988-91
(Discussion Paper;No. 91, Working paper, 1993-08)From 1989 fiscal policy in Norway has been expansionary. With the aid of the econometric model MODAG we estimate the size of the change in policy from 1988 to 1991, its final effect on the central government budget, and ... -
Fiscal policy, macroeconomic performance and industry structure in a small open economy
(Discussion Paper;No. 984, Working paper, 2022-07)We analyse how fiscal policy affects both the macroeconomy and the industry structure, using a multi-sector macroeconomic model of the Norwegian economy with an inflation targeting monetary policy. Our simulations show ... -
Fiscal sustainability: Must the problem be diminished before we can see it?
(Discussion Papers;No. 499, Working paper, 2007)Abstract: Assessments of fiscal sustainability (FS) problems should be based on present values of government revenues and expenditures over an infinite horizon. The paper shows that realistic assumptions imply that the ... -
Flexible empirical Bayes estimation of local fertility schedules: reducing small area problems and preserving regional variation
(Discussion Paper;No. 953, Working paper, 2021-04)Reliable local demographic schedules are in high demand, but small area problems pose a challenge to estimation. The literature has directed little attention to the opportunities created by increased availability of ...