• Naturregnskap ser økonomi, klima og naturgoder i sammenheng 

      Aslaksen, Iulie; Bye, Brita; Garnåsjordet, Per Arild; Grimsrud, Kristine; Randen, Trine Heil Braathu; Rognerud, Live Margrethe; Rørholt, Anne; Steinnes, Margrete (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023-09)
      Norge har ambisiøse mål i klimapolitikken og politikken for naturforvaltning. Endret arealbruk er den viktigste årsaken til tap av naturmangfold og har også negativ klimaeffekt. Å se klima og natur i sammenheng er viktig ...
    • NEET Status and Early versus Later Skills among Young Adults: Evidence from linked register-PIAAC data 

      Barth, Erling; Keute, Anna-Lena; Schøne, Pål; von Simson, Kristine; Steffensen, Kjartan (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      Do skills protect against exclusion in adult ages, and how important are the skills acquired before the age of 16 years versus those acquired later on? We match the scores on numeracy and literacy skills from the 2011 PIAAC ...
    • Norway's 2022 national population projections: Results, methods and assumptions 

      Thomas, Michael J.; Tømmerås, Ane Margrete (Rapporter;2022/28, Report, 2022)
      This report presents results from the 2022 national population projections, along with a detailed account of the underlying assumptions. It also describes how Statistics Norway produces the Norwegian national population ...
    • Not Just Later, but Fewer: Novel Trends in Cohort Fertility in the Nordic Countries 

      Hellstrand, Julia; Nisén, Jessica; Miranda, Vitor F.O.; Fallesen, Peter; Dommermuth, Lars; Myrskylä, Mikko (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      With historically similar patterns of high and stable cohort fertility and high levels of gender equality, the Nordic countries of Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark, and Iceland are seen as forerunners in demographic behavior. ...
    • Official statistics: Quo vadis? 

      Sæbø, Hans Viggo; Hoel, Marit (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      The data revolution has resulted in discussions in the statistical community on the future of official statistics. Will official statistics survive as a brand, or will such statistics drown in the flow of data and statistics ...
    • On the Effects of Linking Cap‑and‑Trade Systems for CO2 Emissions 

      Holtsmark, Bjart; Weitzman, Martin L. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-01-23)
      Linkage of national cap-and-trade systems is typically advocated by economists on a general analogy with the beneficial linkage of free-trade areas and on the specific grounds that linkage will ensure cost effectiveness ...
    • Optimal Climate Policy in the Presence of Another Country's Climate Policy 

      Kaushal, Kevin R. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-03-25)
      The allowances in an emission trading system (ETS) are commonly allocated for free to the emission-intensive and trade-exposed sector, e.g., in the form of output-based allocation (OBA). Recently an approach combining OBA ...
    • Pandemic babies? Fertility in the aftermath of the first COVID-19 wave across European regions 

      Nitsche, Natalie; Jasilioniene, Aiva; Nisén, Jessica; Li, Peng; Kniffka, Maxi S.; Schöley, Jonas; Andersson, Gunnar; Bagavos, Christos; Berrington, Ann; Čipin, Ivan; Clemente, Susana; Dommermuth, Lars; Fallesen, Peter; Galdauskaite, Dovile; Jemna, Dănuţ-Vasile; Lerch, Mathias; McDonnell, Cadhla; Muller, Arno; Neels, Karel; Pötzsch, Olga; Ramiro, Diego; Riederer, Bernhard; te Riele, Saskia; Szabó, Laura; Toulemon, Laurten; Vignoli, Daniele; Zeman, Kryštof; Žnidaršič, Tina (Working paper, 2022)
      Early evidence demonstrates that the fertility response to the COVID-19 pandemic has varied across European countries. Yet, prior research indicates that fertility responses to disasters are often localized sub-nationally. ...
    • Parental leave policies and continued childbearing in Iceland, Norway, and Sweden 

      Duvander, Ann-Zofie; Lappegård, Trude; Andersen, Synøve Nygaard; Gardarsdóttir, Ólöf; Neyer, Gerda; Viklund, Ida (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      Demographic theories maintain that family policies that support gender equality may lead to higher fertility levels in postindustrial societies. This phenomenon is often exemplified by the situation in the Nordic countries. ...
    • Parenthood and Couples’ Relative Earnings in Norway 

      Bergsvik, Janna; Kitterød, Ragni Hege; Wiik, Kenneth Aarskaug (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      With the advance of the gender revolution, income dynamics in couples are changing. Nonetheless, in most Western societies, parenthood still promotes specialized gender roles. Utilizing Norwegian register data on all married ...
    • Partner Choice and Economic Outcomes among the Children of Immigrants 

      Wiik, Kenneth Aarskaug; Bergsvik, Janna (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Several studies have shown that immigrants marrying natives experience better economic outcomes than those marrying other immigrants, but we know less about partner choice and the economic outcomes of the children of ...
    • Perceived Economic Uncertainty and Fertility Intentions in Couples: A Dyadic Extension of the Theory of Planned Behaviour 

      Matera, Camilla; Dommermuth, Lars; Bacci, Silvia; Bertaccini, Bruno; Minello, Alessandra; Vignoli, Daniele (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      By adopting a dyadic extension of the Theory of Planned Behavior (Ajzen, 1991), this study examined whether perceived economic uncertainty afects fertility intentions. Three-hundred thirty one heterosexual couples living ...
    • Politikk på politikk – derfor koster klimapolitikken 

      Bye, Brita; Fæhn, Taran; Kaushal, Kevin R.; Storrøsten, Halvor Briseid; Yonezawa, Hidemichi (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Norge har ambisiøse mål i klimapolitikken for ikke-kvotepliktig sektor. Kuttene kan gjennomføres billigst mulig ved å stille alle utslippskildene overfor samme utslippspris. Imidlertid oppstår en stor del av de samfunnsøkonomiske ...
    • Ponderous, Proficient or Professional? Survey experience and smartphone effects in stated preference research 

      Sandorf, Erlend Dancke; Grimsrud, Kristine; Lindhjem, Henrik (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022-03)
      New parenthood causes large decreases in labor market incomes for mothers but not fathers, a stylized fact known as the “child penalty.” We combine a simple household model with estimates of child penalties in heterosexual ...
    • Predicting poverty trends by survey-to-survey imputation: The challenge of comparability 

      Mathiassen, Astrid; Wold, Bjørn K. Getz (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Poverty in low-income countries is usually measured using large and infrequent household consumption surveys. The challenge is to find methods to measure poverty rates more frequently. This study validates a survey-to-survey ...
    • Predicting the path of labor supply responses when state dependence matters. 

      Vattø, Trine Engh; Jia, Zhiyang (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      The standard labor supply model ignores possible inertia originating from individuals’ previous labor supply decisions and assumes immediate adjustments to policy reforms. In this study we develop a model where past labor ...
    • Problematic response margins in the estimation of the elasticity of taxable income 

      Berg, Kristoffer; Thoresen, Thor Olav (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-10-30)
      The elasticity of taxable income (ETI) holds the promise of representing a summary measure of tax efciency costs, which means that further information about the behavioral components of the ETI is not required for its use ...
    • Productivity Dispersion and Measurement Error 

      von Brasch, Thomas; Iancu, Diana-Cristina; Skjerpen, Terje (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-11-11)
      Several reasons have been put forward to explain the high dispersion of productivity across establishments: quality of management, different input usage and market distortions, to name but a few. Although it is acknowledged ...
    • Public acceptance and willingness to pay cost-effective taxes on red meat and city traffic in Norway 

      Grimsrud, Kristine; Lindhjem, Henrik; Sem, Ingvild Vestre; Rosendahl, Knut Einar (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      The Norwegian Green Tax Commission proposes inter alia cost-effective taxes on red meat and city traffic to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and local air pollution. Implementation requires public support, but the acceptance ...
    • Public R&D support and firm performance: A multivariate dose-response analysis 

      Nilsen, Øivind Anti; Raknerud, Arvid; Iancu, Diana-Cristina (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      We analyse all the major sources of direct and indirect research and development (R&D) support to the business enterprise sector in a single country, Norway, for the period 2002–2013, treating the financial support for R&D ...