Browsing NHH Brage by Author "Bütikofer, Aline"
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Long-Term Consequences of Access to Well-child Visits.
Bütikofer, Aline; Løken, Katrine V.; Salvanes, Kjell G. (SAM;29/2015, Working paper, 2015-12-02)A growing literature documents the positive long-term effects of policy-induced improvements in early-life health and nutrition. However, there is still scarce evidence on early-life health programs targeting a large share ... -
Natural Resources, Demand for Skills, and Schooling Choices
Bütikofer, Aline; Dalla-Zuanna, Antonio; Salvanes, Kjell G. (SAM DP;15/2023, Working paper, 2023-06-30)This paper studies the consequences of the buildup of a new economic sector—the Norwegian petroleum industry—on investment in human capital. We assess both short-term and long-term effects for a broad set of educational ... -
Parenthood and the Gender Gap in Commuting
Bütikofer, Aline; Karadakic, René; Willén, Alexander (SAM DP;11/2023, Working paper, 2023-05)Childbirth increases the opportunity cost of commuting and makes it difficult for both parents to work far away from home. Using detailed Norwegian register data, we show that the commuting patterns of men and women diverge ... -
Price matters: an empirical analysis of the effects of house prices on fertility in Norway
Riiser, Jon Espen; Rynning-Tønnesen, Markus (Master thesis, 2019)Since the late 1970s, the fertility rate in Norway has been relatively stable, slightly below replacement level. After a peak in 2009, fertility has declined, and in 2018 it dropped to the lowest level ever recorded. At ... -
Revisiting 'mothers and sons' preference formation and the female labor force in Switzerland
Bütikofer, Aline (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013-01)This paper analyzes the interrelation between men's gender role attitudes and female labor supply decision. Following Fernández, Fogli, and Olivetti (2004), I argue that the recent increases in the female labor market ... -
School Selectivity, Peers, and Mental Health
Bütikofer, Aline; Ginja, Rita; Landaud, Fanny; Løken, Katrine V. (DP SAM;21/2020, Working paper, 2020-10-14)Although many students suffer from anxiety and depression, and students often identify school pressure and concerns about their futures as the main reasons for their worries, little is known about the consequences of a ... -
Sickly Insecure? : a study of worker responses to reduced job security using the financial shock that hit the norwegian petroleum industry
Engebretsen, Pernille; Kjøle, Emilie Marie (Master thesis, 2017)A large body of literature has sought to examine how job loss a↵ects those who have been displaced following an economic downturn. However, far less e↵ort has been dedicated to investigate the fear-of-unemployment e↵ect ... -
Smarter without smartphones? : effects of mobile phone bans in schools on academic performance, well-being, and bullying
Guldvik, Maria Køber; Kvinnsland, Ingvild (Master thesis, 2018)Smartphones have become a crucial part of the everyday life of Norwegian children, at school as well as in their spare time. What effect this presence has, is widely debated. As a reaction to this debate, Norwegian schools ... -
Swallow this: Childhood and Adolescent Exposure to Fast Food Restaurants, BMI, and Cognitive Ability
Abrahamsson, Sara; Bütikofer, Aline; Karbownik, Krzysztof (SAM DP;07/2023, Working paper, 2023-05-06)Using spatial and temporal variation in openings of fast food restaurants in Norway between 1980 and 2007, we study the effects of changes in the supply of high caloric nutrition on the health and cognitive ability of young ... -
The Effects of Cognitive and Noncognitive Skills on Migration Decisions.
Bütikofer, Aline; Peri, Giovanni (DP SAM;17/2017, Working paper, 2017-09)There is growing evidence that cognitive and noncognitive skills affect the economic and social outcomes of individuals. In this paper, we analyze how they affect the migration decisions of individuals during their lifetimes. ... -
The effects of environmental regulation and technological advancement on labor Demand : evidence from the norwegian primary aluminum industry
Lindheim, Tora; Sværen, Nora Austad (Master thesis, 2019)The motivation to implement environmental regulations is to increase environmental quality, as well as to promote higher quality of life and health benefits, for citizens. But how do environmental regulations affect labor ... -
The long term impact of the 1918 influenza pandemic in Norway
Bakken, Magnus Røthe; Husøy, Sigrid Johanne (Master thesis, 2016)A growing literature show the negative effect of prenatal health shocks on childhood and adult outcomes. Several studies exploit disease outbreaks to find causal effects of in utero exposure on various outcomes. We build ... -
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 ... -
Using exogenous tax variation to identify the effect of municipalities’ financial condition on the integration outcome of refugees in Norway.
Guthe, Nora Kathrine; Solberg, Lene Bonesmo (Master thesis, 2016)The inflow of refugees to Europe in the past few years has motivated us to study the outcome of integration of refugees. The Norwegian settlement policy of refugees implies that refugees are assigned to municipalities ... -
When the economy is hit, so is she? : an empirical analysis of the consequences of the oil price shock in 2014 on domestic violence in Norway
Poots, Christopher Markhus; Råbu, Klara (Master thesis, 2018)This paper examines how the regional economic downturn following the oil price shock in 2014 affected domestic violence in Norway. In particular, we exploit the fact that the economic downturn in Norway following the oil ... -
Why women still can’t have it all : a causal analysis of the reduction in the paternity quota on mothers’ labor participation and career prospects
Grape, Margit Abel; Toset, Kaja Karinsdatter (Master thesis, 2017)The Norwegian paternity quota was reduced from 14 to 10 weeks in 2014. This resulted in an immediate fall in the average length of fathers’ parental leave. In this paper, we investigate what effect this has had on mothers’ ...