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Directed technical change and the resource curse
(Discussion Paper;No. 991, Working paper, 2022-09)The "resource curse" is a potential threat to all countries relying on export income from abundant natural resources such as fossil fuels. The early literature hypothesized that easily accessible natural resources would ... -
Social security pension generosity and the effect on household saving
(Discussion Paper;No. 989, Working paper, 2022-09)This paper examines the substitution between pension wealth and household saving by studying Norway’s 2011 pension reform. The analysis identifies the effect of reductions in social security pension generosity on household ... -
Structural break in the Norwegian LFS due to the 2021 redesign
(Discussion Paper;No. 987, Working paper, 2022-08)The labour force surveys (LFSs) on all Eurostat countries underwent a substantial redesign in January 2021. To ensure coherent labour market time series for the main indicators in the Norwegian LFS, we model the impact ... -
Gender or class – What determines voting? Lessons from expanding the suffrage in early 1900s Norway
(Discussion Paper;No. 988, Working paper, 2022-09)Previous literature has found that extending the suffrage to both females and poorer voters increases the supply of public goods. This paper investigates whether the difference in voting between men and women can be ... -
Dynamics of first-time patenting firms
(Discussion Paper;No. 986, Working paper, 2022-08)This paper investigates firm dynamics in the period before, during, and after an event consisting of a first published patent application. The analysis is based on patent data from the Norwegian Industrial Property Office ... -
Early retirement provision for elderly displaced workers
(Discussion Paper;No. 985, Working paper, 2022-08)This paper studies the economic effects on re-employment and program substitution behavior among elderly displaced workers who exogenously lose eligibility for their early retirement option. We use detailed Norwegian ... -
Can the child penalty be reduced? - Evaluating multiple policy interventions
(Discussion Paper;No. 983, Working paper, 2022-07)Children cause large earnings drops for mothers but not fathers, a stylized fact known as the “child penalty” that explains a substantial portion of remaining gender income gaps. Can policy reduce the child penalty? We ... -
Fiscal policy, macroeconomic performance and industry structure in a small open economy
(Discussion Paper;No. 984, Working paper, 2022-07)We analyse how fiscal policy affects both the macroeconomy and the industry structure, using a multi-sector macroeconomic model of the Norwegian economy with an inflation targeting monetary policy. Our simulations show ... -
Why has the Norwegian krone exchange rate been persistently weak? A fully simultaneous VAR approach
(Discussion Paper;No. 981, Working paper, 2022-05)We identify variables that help explain the persistent weakness of the Norwegian krone since 2016 within a fully simultaneous model of the underlying process driving the krone-euro exchange rate. In addition to a set of ... -
Do funds for more teachers improve student outcomes?
(Discussion Paper;No. 982, Working paper, 2022-06)We investigate the effects of a large-scale Norwegian reform that provided extra teachers to 166 lower secondary schools with relatively high student-teacher ratios and low average grades. We exploit these two margins using ... -
Understanding the positive effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on women’s fertility in Norway
(Discussion Paper;No. 979, Working paper, 2022-05)This study examines the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on fertility in Norway at the individual level. Studies using data at the macro level have found a positive short-term effect of the pandemic on fertility level in ... -
A european equivalence scale for public in-kind transfers
(Discussion Paper;No. 977, Working paper, 2022-05)This paper introduces a theory-based equivalence scale for public in-kind transfers, which justifies comparison of distributions of extended income (cash income plus the value of public services) between European countries. ... -
Policies for electrification of the car fleet in the short and long run – subsidizing electric vehicles or subsidizing charging stations?
(Discussion Paper;No. 980, Working paper, 2022-05)Abatement can be performed by measures that have an impact on present emissions, but no lasting effect, and by long-lived infrastructure investments. We study the optimal combination of short and long-lived options for ... -
Compensated discrete choice and the Slutsky equation
(Discussion Paper;No. 978, Working paper, 2022-05)Consumers often face choice settings in which alternatives are discrete. Examples include choices between variants of differentiated products, modes of urban transportation, residential locations, etc. In this paper ... -
Identifying the elasticity of substitution between capital and labour: a pooled GMM panel estimator
(Discussion Paper;No. 976, Working paper, 2022-03)Simultaneity represents a fundamental problem when estimating the elasticity of substitution between capital and labour. To overcome this problem, a wide variety of external instruments has been applied in the literature. ... -
Public disclosure of tax information: Compliance tool or social network?
(Discussion Paper;No. 975, Working paper, 2022-03)We conduct the first-ever study of actual searches done in a public tax disclosure system, analyzing about one million searches done in 2014 and 2015 in Norway. We characterize the social network these searches comprise, ... -
Marriage before children? First family formation among the children of immigrants in Norway
(Discussion Paper;No. 973, Working paper, 2021-12)Differences in the timing and pathway into family life provide insights into the social distance between majority and immigrant-background groups. Increasing similarity in these processes across immigrant generations may ... -
The road to a low emission society: Costs of interacting climate regulations
(Discussion Paper;No. 972, Working paper, 2021-12)Transportation is one of the main contributors to greenhouse gas emissions. Climate regulations on transportation are often a mix of sector-specific regulations and economy-wide measures (such as emission pricing). In this ... -
Selection in Surveys
(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 ... -
School value-added and longterm student outcomes
(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 ...