Browsing NHH Brage by Author "Bütikofer, Aline"
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An empirical analysis of health effects from electrification : evidence from Norway 1900-1921
Hveem, Ellen Balke; Rognsås, Lotte Leming (Master thesis, 2016)Does access to electricity from hydroelectricity plants affect the health of a population? The aim of this thesis is to analyze the health effects from hydroelectricity at a time when electrification was more or less ... -
An empirical analysis of health effects from electrification: evidence from Norway 1900-1921
Hveem, Ellen Balke; Rognsås, Lotte Leming (Master thesis, 2016)Does access to electricity from hydroelectricity plants affect the health of a population? The aim of this thesis is to analyze the health effects from hydroelectricity at a time when electrification was more or less ... -
Arbeidsutprøving hos egen arbeidsgiver for langtidssykemeldte : en effektevaluering
Skeie, Eivind; Stokke, Ole Magnus (Master thesis, 2017)Helserelatert arbeidsfravær påfører samfunnet og det enkelte individ store kostnader og omtales ofte som en av de største utfordringene for velferdsstaten Norge. Sykefravær er derfor av stor offentlig interesse og har ... -
Breaking the Links: Natural Resource Booms and Intergenerational Mobility
Bütikofer, Aline; Dalla-Zuanna, Antonio; Salvanes, Kjell G. (DP SAM;19/2018, Working paper, 2018-09)Do large economic shocks increase intergenerational earnings mobility through creating new economic opportunities? Alternatively, do they reduce mobility by reinforcing the links between generations? In this paper, we ... -
Building Bridges and Widening Gaps: Efficiency Gains and Equity Concerns of Labor Market Expansions
Bütikofer, Aline; Løken, Katrine V.; Willén, Alexander (DP SAM;19/2019, Working paper, 2019-10-20)We exploit the opening of a large bridge to study how access to a larger labor market affects economic efficiency, and how these potential efficiency gains are distributed across workers. The bridge we study connected the ... -
Childhood Nutrition and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from a School Breakfast Program
Bütikofer, Aline; Mølland, Eirin; Salvanes, Kjell G. (DP SAM;15/2016, Working paper, 2016-11-29)While a growing literature documents the short-term effects of public programs providing children with nutritious food, there is scarce evidence of the long-term eects of such programs. This paper studies the long-term ... -
Disease Control and Inequality Reduction: Evidence from a Tuberculosis Testing and Vaccination Campaign
Bütikofer, Aline; Salvanes, Kjell G.This paper examines the economic impact of a tuberculosis control program launched in Norway in 1948. In the 1940s, Norway had one of the highest tuberculosis infection rates in Europe, affecting about 85 percent of the ... -
Does education foster voter participation? : an empirical study using a Norwegian school reform
Husby, Tirill Larsen; Raanaa, Anne Grete Ulvestad (Master thesis, 2016)There is a common agreement that education is an essential part of a stable democracy. This is based on the belief that education encourages citizens to participate in democratic processes, and provides them with the ... -
Dynamic complementarities in infant health
Semb, Ingrid Mikkelsen (Master thesis, 2017)A large literature documents that early-life shocks may substantially affect health and labor market outcomes. However, we do not know much about how different shocks interact. In theoretical work, the idea of dynamic ... -
Eldre i arbeidslivet : hvordan vil økonomiske insentiver påvirke etterspørselen etter eldre arbeidskraft?
Taraldset, Monika; Lien, Marthe Sogn (Master thesis, 2016)I debatten om yrkesdeltakelse blant eldre har hovedfokuset de siste årene vært på tilbudet av arbeidskraft, nærmere bestemt hvordan man kan få eldre til å ville stå lenger i arbeid. Det er blitt viet lite oppmerksomhet til ... -
Eldre i arbeidslivet : hvordan vil økonomiske insentiver påvirke etterspørselen etter eldre arbeidskraft?
Taraldset, Monika; Lien, Marthe Sogn (Master thesis, 2016)I debatten om yrkesdeltakelse blant eldre har hovedfokuset de siste årene vært på tilbudet av arbeidskraft, nærmere bestemt hvordan man kan få eldre til å ville stå lenger i arbeid. Det er blitt viet lite oppmerksomhet ... -
Employment Effects of Healthcare Policy: Evidence from the 2007 FDA Black Box Warning on Antidepressants
Bütikofer, Aline; Cronin, Cristopher; Skira, Meghan (DP SAM;01/2019, Working paper, 2019-01-04)Public policies aimed at improving health may have indirect effects on outcomes such as education and employment. We study the labor market effects of a 2007 regulatory action by the US Food and Drug Administration, in ... -
Labour economic outcomes and the returns to language acquisition : a comparative study of refugees and economic immigrants in Germany
Becker, Beverly Faye; Vignold-Majal, Lorenz (Master thesis, 2017)This paper analyses the differences in labour economic and language outcomes between refugees and economic immigrants in Germany. We use data from the German Socioeconomic Panel (GSOEP), a yearly household survey of the ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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. ...