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    • Sampling errors and cross-country comparisons of income inequality 

      Aaberge, Rolf (Discussion Papers;No. 252, Working paper, 1999)
      The growing interest in cross-national comparisons of income inequality is primarily a result of the establishment of the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) database and the wide range of studies on income inequality based on ...

    • Saving and portfolio allocation before and after job loss 

      Basten, Christoph; Fagereng, Andreas; Telle, Kjetil (Discussion Papers;672, Working paper, 2012)
      Using administrative panel data from Norway, we investigate the development of household labor income, financial wealth and asset holdings over a nine-year period surrounding job loss. Consistent with a simple theoretical ...

    • The Scandinavian contribution to national accounting 

      Aukrust, Odd (Discussion Paper;No. 73, Working paper, 1992-06)
      This paper surveys developments in national accounting theory and methodology in Scandinavia, with the focus on the period from around 1930 to around 1955 when modern national accounting was born. Sections 2-4 provide a ...

    • School accountability: Incentives or sorting? 

      Gjefsen, Hege Marie; Gunnes, Trude (Discussion papers;815, Working paper, 2015-07)
      We exploit a nested school accountability reform to estimate the causal effect on teacher mobility, sorting, and student achievement. In 2003, lower-secondary schools in Oslo became accountable to the school district ...

    • School value-added and longterm student outcomes 

      Kirkebøen, Lars Johannessen (Discussion Paper;No. 970, Working paper, 2021-11)
      Several recent studies find that interventions in schools can have important lasting consequences for students, and that schools differ in their contribution to students' learning. However, there is less research investigating ...

    • Scope elasticity and economic significance in discrete choice experiments 

      Dugstad, Anders; Grimsrud, Kristine; Kipperberg, Gorm; Lindhjem, Henrik; Navrud, Ståle (Discussion Paper;No. 942, Working paper, 2020-11)
      Sensitivity to scope in nonmarket valuation refers to the property that people are willing to pay more for a higher quality or quantity of a nonmarket public good. Establishing significant scope sensitivity has been an ...

    • Search behavior, aggregate rationality and the discouraged worker effect 

      Dagsvik, John K.; Kornstad, Tom; Skjerpen, Terje (Discussion papers;906, Working paper, 2019-04)
      Discouraged workers are those who have given up search due to (perceived) low chances of obtaining work. In this paper we first develop a model for the probability of being in the labor force as a function of the probability ...

    • Searching for basic consumption patterns : is the Engel elasticity of housing unity? 

      Larsen, Erling Røed (Discussion Papers;No. 323, Working paper, 2002)
      Abstract: We estimate Engel elasticities of housing expenditures for each independent cross-section of the Consumer Expenditure Surveys in the period 1986-1998, and find that the elasticity remains close to unity for all ...

    • Secondary Benefits of the EC Carbon/Energy Tax 

      Alfsen, Knut H.; Birkelund, Hugo; Aaserud, Morten (Discussion papers;104, Working paper, 1993-11)
      Emissions of CO2, SO2 and NO are all closely linked to burning of fossil fuels. Here we report on simulations done by linking a Sectoral European Energy Model (SEEM) covering energy demand in nine Western European countries ...

    • Sectoral and regional expansion of emissions trading 

      Böhringer, Christoph; Dijkstra, Bouwe; Rosendahl, Knut Einar (Discussion Papers;No. 654, Working paper, 2011)
      Abstract: We consider an international emissions trading scheme with partial sectoral and regional coverage. Sectoral and regional expansion of the trading scheme is beneficial in aggregate, but not necessarily for ...

    • Sectoral labor supply, choice restrictions and functionalform 

      Dagsvik, John K.; Strøm, Steinar (Discussion Papers;No. 388, Working paper, 2004)
      Abstract: In this paper we discuss a general framework for analyzing labor supply behavior in the presence of complicated budget- and quantity constraints of which some are unobserved. The individual’s labor supply ...

    • Selection in Surveys 

      Dutz, Deniz; Huitfeldt, Ingrid; Lacouture, Santiago; Mogstad, Magne; Torgovitsky, Alexander; Dijk, Winnie van (Discussion Paper;No. 971, Working paper, 2021-12)
      We evaluate how nonresponse affects conclusions drawn from survey data and consider how researchers can reliably test and correct for nonresponse bias. To do so, we examine a survey on labor market conditions during the ...

    • Self-delusion in the pursuit of happiness 

      Sommervoll, Dag Einar (Discussion Papers;604, Working paper, 2010)
      The paper explores how repeated revisions of consumption plans increase long-run utility. If agents value present anticipations of future consumption, some revisions may be viewed as a benign form of self-delusion. We ...

    • Self-reinforcing effects between housing prices and credit. Evidence from Norway 

      Anundsen, André Kallåk; Jansen, Eilev S. (Discussion Papers;No. 651, Working paper, 2011)
      Abstract: The interaction between housing prices and household borrowing in Norway is estimated in a simultaneous setting in the long and the short run. The long run dependence is analyzed within a cointegrated vector ...

    • Self-reinforcing effects between housing prices and credit: an extended version 

      Anundsen, André Kallåk; Jansen, Eilev S. (Discussion papers;756, Working paper, 2013-10)
      The financial crisis has brought the interaction between housing prices and household borrowing into the limelight of economic policy debate. This paper examines the nexus of housing prices and credit in Norway within a ...

    • Shifts in organizational form under a dual income tax system 

      Thoresen, Thor Olav; Alstadsæter, Annette (Discussion Papers;No. 529, Working paper, 2008)
      Abstract: Evidence of owners of small businesses engaging in tax motivated shifts in organizational form is scarce. The main reason is lack of micro data enabling us to track tax-payers’ movements across organizational ...

    • Short run effects of bleaker prospects for oligopolistic producers of a non-renewable resource 

      Grimsrud, Kristine; Rosendahl, Knut Einar; Storrøsten, Halvor Briseid; Tsygankova, Marina (Discussion papers;733, Working paper, 2013-01)
      In a non-renewable resource market with imperfect competition, the resource owners’ supply is governed both by current demand and by the resource rent. New information regarding future market conditions will typically ...

    • Short- and long-term allocation of power in liberalized electricity markets 

      Ericson, Torgeir; Halvorsen, Bente (Discussion Papers;612, Working paper, 2010)
      Abstract: The experience of liberalized electricity markets’ ability to allocate scarce energy resources has been mixed. In this paper, we analyze how liberalized markets allocate power in the short and long run through ...

    • Should economists listen to educational psychologists? Some economics of student motivation 

      Donze, Jocelyn; Gunnes, Trude (Discussion Papers;No. 662, Working paper, 2011)
      Abstract: This paper sheds light on the role of student motivation in the success of schooling. We develop a model in which a teacher engages in the management of student motivation through the choice of the classroom ...

    • Sick leave before, during and after pregnancy 

      Telle, Kjetil; Rieck, Karsten Marshall Elseth (Discussion Papers;No. 690, Working paper, 2012)
      Med data for alle sysselsatte kvinner som fikk sitt første barn i perioden 1995-2008 studerer vi sykefraværsmønstre før, under og etter graviditeten. Ved å følge de samme kvinnen over tid kan vi undersøke hvordan det ...