Blar i Discussion Papers på forfatter "Fiva, Jon Hernes"

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    • Access to treatment and educational inequalities in cancer survival 

      Fiva, Jon Hernes; Hægeland, Torbjørn; Rønning, Marte; Syse, Astri (Discussion papers;735, Working paper, 2013-02)
      The public health care systems in the Nordic countries provide high quality care almost free of charge to all citizens. However, social inequalities in health persist. Previous research has, for example, documented substantial ...

    • Causal effects of paternity on children and parents 

      Cools, Sara; Fiva, Jon Hernes; Kirkebøen, Lars Johannessen (Discussion Papers;No. 657, Working paper, 2011)
      Abstract: In this paper we use a parental leave reform directed towards fathers to identify the causal effects of paternity leave on children's and parents' outcomes. We document that paternity leave causes fathers to ...

    • Does the housing market react to new information on school quality? 

      Fiva, Jon Hernes; Kirkebøen, Lars Johannessen (Discussion Papers;No. 541, Working paper, 2008)
      Abstract: This paper analyzes housing market reactions to the release of previously unpublished information on school quality. Using the sharp discontinuity in the information environment allows us to study price changes ...

    • Does welfare policy affect residential choices? : evidence from a natural experiment 

      Fiva, Jon Hernes (Discussion Papers;No. 503, Working paper, 2007)
      Abstract: This paper studies how changes in welfare benefit levels affect welfare recipients’ residential choices. Although several empirical studies have stressed that welfare policy may affect residential choices of ...

    • 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 ...

    • The Incentive effects of property taxation: Evidence from Norwegian school districts 

      Fiva, Jon Hernes; Rønning, Marte (Discussion Papers;No. 484, Working paper, 2006)
      Abstract: Recent theoretical contributions indicate favorable incentive effects of property taxation on public service providers. The object of this paper is to confront these theories with data from Norwegian school ...