Blar i Discussion Papers på forfatter "Rønning, Marte"

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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 ...

    • Child care center staff composition and early child development 

      Drange, Nina; Rønning, Marte (Discussion Papers;No. 870, Working paper, 2017-12-13)
      We estimate effects of child care center staff composition on early child development. During the years our data covers, child care centers in Oslo were oversubscribed, and child care slots were allocated through a ...

    • Classroom grade composition and pupil achievement 

      Leuven, Edwin; Rønning, Marte (Discussion papers;722, Working paper, 2012-12)
      This paper exploits discontinuous grade mixing rules in Norwegian junior high schools to estimate how classroom grade composition affects pupil achievement. Pupils in mixed grade classrooms are found to outperform pupils ...

    • Didactic methods and small-group instruction for low-performing adolescents in mathematics: Results from a randomized controlled trial 

      Kirkebøen, Lars Johannessen; Gunnes, Trude; Lindenskov, Lena; Rønning, Marte (Discussion Paper;No. 957, Working paper, 2021-06)
      Can high-dosage tutoring help low-performing adolescents? We implement a randomized experiment to test a twofold intervention: A teacher training program customized for instructing 8th graders who perform poorly in mathematics ...

    • Distance and choice of field: Evidence from a Norwegian college expansion reform 

      Knutsen, Tora K.; Modalsli, Jørgen; Rønning, Marte (Discussion Paper;No. 932, Working paper, 2020-06)
      How can geographical proximity to college explain field of study choices? We empirically address this question using the major expansion of university colleges in Norway in the second half of the twentieth century, when ...

    • Education and cancer risk 

      Leuven, Edwin; Plug, Erik; Rønning, Marte (Discussion papers;777, Working paper, 2014-04)
      There exists a strong educational gradient in cancer risk, which has been documented in a wide range of populations. Yet relatively little is known about the extent to which education is causally linked to cancer incidence ...

    • Financial incentives and study duration in higher education 

      Gunnes, Trude; Kirkebøen, Lars Johannessen; Rønning, Marte (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 ...

    • 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 ...

    • Homework assignment and student achievement in OECD countries 

      Falch, Torberg; Rønning, Marte (Discussion papers;711, Working paper, 2012-10)
      This paper analyzes the effect of assigning homework on student achievement using data from 16 OECD countries that participated in TIMSS 2007. The model exploits withinstudent variation in homework across subjects in a ...

    • The effect of working conditions on teachers’sickness absence 

      Rønning, Marte (Discussion papers (Statistisk sentralbyrå. Forskningsavdelingen);No. 684, Working paper, 2012)
      This paper investigates the effect of working conditions on the amount of teachers’sickness absence in Norway. Exploiting intertemporal variation within teachers who have not changed schools, the findings indicate that ...

    • 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 ...

    • The relative contribution of genetic and environmental factors to cancer risk and cancer mortality in Norway 

      Leuven, Edwin; Plug, Erik; Rønning, Marte (Discussion papers;776, Working paper, 2014-04)
      Using Norwegian cancer registry data we study twin and non-twin siblings to decompose variation in cancer at most common sites and cancer mortality into a genetic, shared environment and individual (unshared environmental) ...

    • Who benefits from homework assignments? 

      Rønning, Marte (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 do wealthy parents have wealthy children? 

      Fagereng, Andreas; Mogstad, Magne; Rønning, Marte (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 ...