Blar i NHH Brage på emneord "Samfunnsvitenskap"
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School Selectivity, Peers, and Mental Health
(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 ... -
A Second Chance? Labor Market Returns to Adult Education Using School Reforms
(DP SAM;14/2020, Working paper, 2020-08)Roughly one third of a cohort drop out of high school across OECD countries, and developing effective tools to address prime-aged high school dropouts is a key policy question. We leverage high quality Norwegian register ... -
Self-regulation Training and Job Search Behavior: A Natural Field Experiment Within an Active Labor Market Program
(DP SAM;13/2019, Working paper, 2019-10)Recent evidence suggests that self-regulation abilities play an important role for the job finding success of unemployed persons. We conduct a randomized controlled trial embedded in an established labor market reactivation ... -
Size-based input price discrimination under endogenous inside options
(DP SAM;06/2021, Working paper, 2021-03)Individual retailers may choose to invest in a substitute to a dominant supplier’s products (inside option) as a way of improving its position towards the supplier. Given that a large retailer has stronger investment ... -
Smartphone Bans, Student Outcomes and Mental Health
(DP SAM;01/2024, Working paper, 2024-02)How smartphone usage affects well-being and learning among children and adolescents is a concern for schools, parents, and policymakers. Combining detailed administrative data with survey data on middle schools’ smartphone ... -
Solidarity and Fairness in Times of Crisis
(DP SAM;06/2020, Working paper, 2020-05-14)In a large-scale pre-registered survey experiment with a representative sample of more than 8,000 Americans, we examine how the COVID-19 pandemic causally affects people’s solidarity and fairness. We randomly manipulate ... -
Spillovers from US monetary policy: Evidence from a time-varying parameter GVAR model
(DP SAM;31/2018, Working paper, 2018-12-21)This paper develops a global vector autoregressive (GVAR) model with time-varying parameters and stochastic volatility to analyze whether international spillovers of US monetary policy have changed over time. The proposed ... -
The Blue Maritime Cluster Crisis: Financial Instability and Supply Chain Management Effects
(DP SAM;15/2019, Working paper, 2019-08)The present paper investigates the offshore crisis 2015-2017 and its impact on one of the most complete maritime clusters, more precise the Blue Maritime Cluster, located at Møre og Romsdal at the North Western Coast of ... -
The Boy Crisis: Experimental Evidence on the Acceptance of Males Falling Behind
(DP SAM;06/2019, Working paper, 2019-03-01)The ‘boy crisis’ prompts the question of whether people interpret inequalities differently depending on whether males or females are lagging behind. We study this question in a novel large-scale distributive experiment ... -
The Financial Instability Hypothesis and the Financial Crisis in Eastern European Emerging Economies
(DP SAM;08/2019, Working paper, 2019-04)The present paper applies the financial instability hypothesis in order to explain the financial crises of 2008-2010 in eleven emerging Eastern European economies Also, it seeks to map if institutional frameworks of these ... -
The impact of international tax information exchange agreements on the use of tax amnesty: evidence from Norway
(DP SAM;16/2019, Working paper, 2019-09)In this paper we develop a model for tax amnesty applications in a multi-period setting. One key insight from the model is that applying for amnesty becomes more attractive at the moment when stricter enforcement is ... -
Understanding the Decline in Private Sector Unionization: A Skill-based Approach
(DP SAM;07/2021, Working paper, 2021-03)Private-sector unionization rates have fallen precipitously in the United States over the past half century, from 25% in 1973 to only 7% in 2018. We take a skill-based approach to studying this decline, using data from the ... -
Unemployment shocks, cyclical prices and shopping behavior
(DP SAM;03/2021, Working paper, 2021-01)We use rich data from Norway’s biggest grocery chain to show how households and grocery stores react to changing economic conditions. We exploit the regional nature of a recession following the drop in the oil price in ... -
Universal Childcare for the Youngest and the Maternal Labour Supply
(DP SAM;03/2019, Working paper, 2019-02)In this paper, we investigate whether the expansion of childcare leads to an increase in the female labour supply. We measure female labour supply at both the extensive and intensive margin. For identification, we exploit ... -
Unleveling the Playing Field? Experimental Evidence on Parents’ Willingness to Give Their Child an Advantage
(DP SAM;21/2023, Working paper, 2023-12)Parents play a pivotal role in shaping the opportunities and outcomes of their children. This paper provides unique evidence on parents’ willingness to give their child an advantage. I report from a large-scale lab-in-the-field ... -
The Wealth of a Nation: Norways Road to Prosperity
(DP SAM;17/2020, Working paper, 2020-09)The present paper discusses Norway’s way to prosperity during the two last centuries. The main reason for its wealth seems to have been the ability to meet international demand by utilizing its rich natural resources, ... -
Weber revisited: A literature review on the possible Link between Protestantism, Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth
(DP SAM;08/2020, Working paper, 2020-06)The present paper looks at the Weber-Tawney thesis on the positive link between Protestant ethic and economic growth. Both scholars observed that Protestant areas in the Western world seemed to gain faster and more wealth ... -
Why 1990 international Geary-Khamis dollars cannot be a foundation for reliable long run comparisons of GDP
(DP SAM;25/2018, Working paper, 2018-11)Using a large, new dataset of agricultural prices and quantities for many countries and regions, we create five new international Geary-Khamis pounds – for 1870, 1845, 1775, 1705, and a superior chained series. We show ... -
Will Artificial Intelligence Get in the Way of Achieving Gender Equality?
(DP SAM;03/2024, Working paper, 2024-03-14)The promise of generative AI to increase human productivity relies on developing skills to become proficient at it. There is reason to suspect that women and men use AI tools differently, which could result in productivity ...