Browsing NHH Brage by Subject "VDP::Samfunnsvitenskap: 200"

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    • The Role of Parenthood on the Gender Gap among Top Earners 

      Bütikofer, Aline; Jensen, Sissel; Salvanes, Kjell G. (DP SAM;9/2018, Working paper, 2018-04)
      Is the wage penalty due to motherhood larger among highly qualified women? In this paper, we study the effect of parenthood on the careers of high-achieving women relative to high-achieving men in a set of high-earning ...

    • The Supply of Skill and Endogenous Technical Change: Evidence From a College Expansion Reform 

      Carneiro, Pedro; Liu, Kai; Salvanes, Kjell G. (DP SAM;16/2018, Working paper, 2018-08)
      We examine the labor market consequences of an exogenous increase in the supply of skilled labor in several cities in Norway, resulting from the construction of new colleges in the 1970s. We find that skilled wages ...

    • Time-Dependency in Producers’ Price Adjustments: Evidence from Micro Panel Data. 

      Nilsen, Øivind Anti; Pettersen, Per Marius; Bratlie, Joakim (DP SAM;12/2018, Working paper, 2018-06)
      Existing micro evidence of firms’ price changes tends to show a downward sloping hazard rate – the longer the price of a product has remained the same, the less likely it is that the price will change. Using a panel of ...

    • War of attrition with affiliated values. 

      Chi, Chang Koo; Murto, Pauli; Välimäki, Juuso (DP SAM;16/2017, Working paper, 2017)
      We study the war of attrition between two players when the players’ signals are binary and affiliated. Our model covers both the case of common values and affiliated private values. We characterize the unique symmetric ...

    • What limits the powerful in imposing the morality of their authority? 

      Schøyen, Øivind (DP SAM;18/2017, Working paper, 2017-10)
      This paper models a game between an authority, seeking to implement its preferred morality, and a parental generation, seeking to socialize a younger generation into the their own morality. The authority chooses a coercion ...

    • Why do committees work? 

      Breitmoser, Yves; Valasek, Justin (DP SAM;18/2023, Working paper, 2023-11-21)
      We report on the results of an experiment designed to disentangle behavioral biases in information aggregation of committees. Subjects get private signals about the state of world, send binary messages, and finally vote ...

    • You’ve got mail: A randomised field experiment on tax evasion. 

      Bott, Kristina M.; Cappelen, Alexander W.; Sørensen, Erik Ø.; Tungodden, Bertil (DP SAM;10/2017, Working paper, 2017-06)
      We report from a large-scale randomized field experiment conducted on a unique sample of more than 15 000 taxpayers in Norway, who were likely to have misreported their foreign income. We find that the inclusion of a ...