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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Second-degree dominance has become a widely accepted criterion for ordering distribution functions according to social welfare. However, it provides only a partial ordering, and it may fail to rank distributions that ...

We analyse two mechanism designs for refunding emission payments to polluting firms: output-based refunding (OBR) and expenditure-based refunding (EBR). In both instruments, emission fees are returned to the polluting ...

The increase in cohabitation and nonmarital childbearing across Europe has raised questions about who still marries either before or after having a child. Although prior studies have addressed the sequence of marriage and ...

This paper investigates the quality of preliminary figures in the Norwegian National Accounts. To address the problem of few observations in such analyses, we use some recently developed system tests for forecast evaluation. ...

Statistical disclosure control is important for the dissemination of statistical outputs. There is an increasing need for greater confidentiality protection during data collection and processing by National Statistical ...

Skatteutvalget anbefaler avgifter på bilkjøring tilsvarende de eksterne marginale kostnadene ved bilkjøring i et fremtidig bilavgiftssystem. Anbefalingen er godt forankret i forskningen. Utvalget anbefaler at slike avgifter ...

Fordelingseffekter av pensjonsreformen i 2011 er analysert ved hjelp av Statistisk sentralbyrås modell MOSART. Resultatene viser at den opprinnelige sterke omfordelingen gjennom folketrygdens alderspensjon er videreført. ...