Blar i Discussion Papers på forfatter "Mogstad, Magne"

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    • A theory for ranking distribution functions 

      Aaberge, Rolf; Havnes, Tarjei; Mogstad, Magne (Discussion papers;763, Working paper, 2013-11)
      When is one distribution (of income, consumption, or some other economic variable) more equal or better than another? This question has proven difficult to answer in situations where distribution functions intersect and ...

    • Are lone mothers responsive to policy changes? : the effects of a Norvegian workfare reform on earnings, education, and poverty 

      Mogstad, Magne; Pronzato, Chiara (Discussion Papers;No. 533, Working paper, 2008)
      Abstract: The generous Nordic model of welfare is commonly viewed as an exceptional success both in terms of equality and economic growth. However, it has recently become evident that subgroups of the population with weak ...

    • Beyond LATE with a discrete instrument. Heterogeneity in the quantity-quality interaction of children 

      Brinch, Christian N.; Mogstad, Magne; Wiswall, Matthew (Discussion papers;703, Working paper, 2012-09)
      The interpretation of instrumental variables (IV) estimates as local average treatment effects (LATE) of instrument-induced shifts in treatment raises concerns about their external validity and policy relevance. We examine ...

    • Broadband internet and the stock market investments of individual investors 

      Hvide, Hans K.; Meling, Tom G.; Mogstad, Magne; Vestad, Ola Lotherington (Discussion Paper;No. 946, Working paper, 2021-01)
      We study the effects of broadband internet use on the portfolio selection of individual investors. A public program in Norway provides plausibly exogenous variation in internet use. Our instrumental variables estimates ...

    • College as a Marriage Market 

      Kirkebøen, Lars Johannessen; Leuven, Edwin; Mogstad, Magne (Discussion Paper;No. 950, Working paper, 2021-04)
      Recent descriptive work suggests the type of college education (field or institution) is an important but neglected pathway through which individuals sort into homogeneous marriages. These descriptive studies raise the ...

    • The Distributional impact of public services when needs differ 

      Aaberge, Rolf; Bhuller, Manudeep; Langørgen, Audun; Mogstad, Magne (Discussion Papers;No. 621, Working paper, 2010)
      Abstract: Despite a broad consensus on the need to take into account the value of public services in distributional analysis, there is little reliable evidence on how the inclusion of such non-cash income actually affects ...

    • Divorced Fathers’ Proximity and Children’s Long Run Outcomes : evidence from Norwegian Registry Data 

      Kalil, Ariel; Mogstad, Magne; Rege, Mari; Votruba, Mark (Discussion Papers;No 589, Working paper, 2009)
      This study examines the link between divorced nonresident fathers’ proximity and children’s long-run outcomes using high-quality data from Norwegian population registers. We follow (from birth to young adulthood) 15,992 ...

    • Do employees benefit from worker representation on corporate boards? 

      Blandhol, Christine; Mogstad, Magne; Nilsson, Peter; Vestad, Ola Lotherington (Discussion Paper;No. 947, Working paper, 2021-01)
      Do employees benefit from worker representation on corporate boards? Economists and policymakers are keenly interested in this question – especially lately, as worker representation is widely promoted as an important way ...

    • Earnings, disposable income, and consumption of allowed and rejected disability insurance applicants 

      Kostøl, Andreas Ravndal; Mogstad, Magne (Discussion papers;803, Working paper, 2015-03)
      Two key questions in thinking about the size and growth of the disability insurance program are to what extent it discourages work, and how valuable the insurance is to individuals and families. These questions motivate ...

    • Family welfare cultures 

      Dahl, Gordon B.; Kostøl, Andreas Ravndal; Mogstad, Magne (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 ...

    • Field of study, earnings and selfselection 

      Kirkebøen, Lars Johannessen; Leuven, Edwin; Mogstad, Magne (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 ...

    • How financial incentives induce disability insurance recipients to return to work 

      Kostøl, Andreas Ravndal; Mogstad, Magne (Discussion papers (Statistisk sentralbyrå. Forskningsavdelingen);No. 685, Working paper, 2012)
      Disability Insurance (DI) programs have long been criticized by economists for apparent work disincentives. Some countries have recently modified their programs such that DI recipients are allowed to keep some of their ...

    • How linear models can mask non-linear causal relationships : an application to family size and children's education 

      Mogstad, Magne; Wiswall, Matthew (Discussion Papers;586, Working paper, 2009)
      Many empirical studies specify outcomes as a linear function of endogenous regressors when conducting instrumental variable (IV) estimation. We show that commonly used tests for treatment effects, selection bias, and ...

    • Imperfect competition, compensating differentials and rent sharing in the U.S. labor market 

      Lamadon, Thibaut; Mogstad, Magne; Setzler, Bradley (Discussion papers;918, Working paper, 2019-10)
      The primary goal of our paper is to quantify the importance of imperfect competition in the U.S. labor market by estimating the size of rents earned by American firms and workers from ongoing employment relationships. To ...

    • Improving educational pathways to social mobility. Evidence from Norway’s “Reform 94” 

      Bertrand, Marianne; Mogstad, Magne; Mountjoy, Jack (Discussion papers;916, Working paper, 2019-09)
      High school vocational education has a controversial history in the United States, largely due to a perceived tradeoff between teaching readily deployable occupational skills versus shunting mostly disadvantaged students ...

    • Income mobility as an equalizer of permanent income 

      Aaberge, Rolf; Mogstad, Magne (Discussion papers;769, Working paper, 2014-01)
      Do market-orientated economies with relatively large cross-sectional levels of inequality have higher income mobility and therefore less permanent inequality? To answer this question, we introduce a formal representation ...

    • Inequality in current and lifetime income 

      Aaberge, Rolf; Mogstad, Magne (Discussion papers;726, Working paper, 2012-12)
      Standard theory of intertemporal choice predicts that people smooth out life-cycle changes in income by borrowing and saving, such that their standard of living in any given year depends more on lifetime income than on ...

    • Is universal child care leveling the playing field? 

      Havnes, Tarjei; Mogstad, Magne (Discussion papers;774, Working paper, 2014-03)
      We assess the case for universal child care programs in the context of a Norwegian reform which led to a large-scale expansion of subsidized child care. We use non-linear difference-in-differences methods to estimate the ...

    • Life-cycle bias and the returns to schooling in current and lifetime earnings 

      Bhuller, Manudeep; Mogstad, Magne; Salvanes, Kjell G. (Discussion Papers;no. 666, Working paper, 2011)
      Abstract: This paper uses a unique data set with nearly career-long earnings histories to provide evidence on the returns to schooling in current and lifetime earnings. We use these results to assess the importance of ...

    • Local governments, in-kind transfers, and economic inequality 

      Aaberge, Rolf; Eika, Lasse; Langørgen, Audun; Mogstad, Magne (Discussion papers;888, Working paper, 2018-11)
      We examine how in-kind transfers provided by local governments affect economic inequality. The allocation of in-kind transfers to households and the adjustment for differences in needs are derived from a model of local ...