• Effects of norms, warm-glow and time use on household recycling 

      Halvorsen, Bente (Discussion Papers;No. 389, Working paper, 2004)
      Abstract: The aim of this paper is to quantify the relative importance of motivations based on warm-glow, social and moral norms and cost of time used recycling on household recycling efforts. We also test for crowding-out ...
    • Making Sen’s capability approach operational. A random scale framework 

      Dagsvik, John K. (Discussion papers;710, Working paper, 2012-10)
      Amartya Sen has developed the so-called capability approach to meet the criticism that income alone may be insufficient as a measure of economic inequality. This is because knowledge about people’s income does not tell us ...
    • Means-testing the child benefit 

      Kornstad, Tom; Thoresen, Thor Olav (Discussion Papers;No. 262, Working paper, 1999)
      Improving the distributional impact of transfers may be costly if it reduces labour supply. In this paper we show how effects of changes in the design of the child benefit programme can be examined by deriving information ...
    • Multinomial choice and selectivity 

      Dagsvik, John K. (Discussion Papers;No 264, Working paper, 2000)
      In this paper we discuss two types of selection problems. The first problem is motivated by labor market analyses such as the estimation of sector-specific wage equations where the sector for which the wages are observed ...
    • Prevalence and substitution effects in tobacco consumption: A discrete choice analysis of panel data 

      Wangen, Knut Reidar; Biørn, Erik (Discussion Papers;No. 312, Working paper, 2001)
      Abstract: This paper analyzes tobacco demand within a discrete choice framework. Using binomial and multinomial logit models with random effects, and an unbalanced panel data set of Norwegian households over a twenty year ...
    • Primary schooling in Zambia squeezed at community and household level 

      Belsby, Liv; Wold, Bjørn K. Getz (Discussion Papers;No. 191, Working paper, 1997)
      A part of the current economic reform program in Zambia, is to increase standard, efficiency and equity in the primary school sector. This paper studies primary school attendance. A logistic regression analysis is used to ...
    • Transitions to disability and rehabilitation 

      Andreassen, Leif; Kornstad, Tom (Discussion Papers;641, Working paper, 2010)
      The discrete choice model of McFadden (1973) is used to quantify the desire for going into rehabilitation or disability among fully employed married women in Norway. Predictions using the model indicate that as much as 60 ...