• Can Female Doctors Cure the Gender STEMM Gap? Evidence from Randomly Assigned General Practitioners 

  Riise, Julie; Willage, Barton; Willen, Alexander (DP SAM;18/2019, Working paper, 2019-10)

  We use random assignment of general practitioners (GPs) to provide the first evidence on the effects of female role models in childhood on the long-run educational outcomes of girls. We find that girls who are exposed to ...

• Going Fast or Going Green? Evidence from Environmental Speed Limits in Norway 

  Folgerø, Ingrid Kristine; Harding, Torfinn; Westby, Benjamin S. (DP SAM;17/2019, Working paper, 2019-10-03)

  This paper studies the impact of speed limits on local air pollution using a series of datespecific speed limit reductions in Oslo over the 2004-2011 period. We find that lowering the speed limit from 80 to 60 km/h reduces ...

• Incarceration, Recidivism, and Employment 

  Bhuller, Manudeep; Mogstad, Magne; Dahl, Gordon Boyack; Løken, Katrine Vellesen (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)

  Using a random judge design and panel data from Norway, we estimate that imprisonment discourages further criminal behavior, with re-offense probabilities falling by 29 percentage points and criminal charges dropping by ...

• The impact of international tax information exchange agreements on the use of tax amnesty: evidence from Norway 

  Andersson, Jonas; Schroyen, Fred; Torsvik, Gaute (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 ...

• Financial instability, institutional development and economic crisis in Eastern Europe 

  Grytten, Ola Honningdal; Koilo, Viktoriia (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)

• Evidence that prenatal testosterone transfer from male twins reduces the fertility and socioeconomic success of their female co-twins 

  Buetikofer, Aline; Figlio, David; Karbownik, Krzysztof; Kuzawa, Christopher W; Salvanes, Kjell Gunnar (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)

• Ethnically Biased? Experimental Evidence from Kenya 

  Berge, Lars Ivar Oppedal; Bjorvatn, Kjetil; Galle, Simon; Miguel, Edward; Posner, Daniel; Tungodden, Bertil; Zhang, Kelly (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)

• The Blue Maritime Cluster Crisis: Financial Instability and Supply Chain Management Effects 

  Koilo, Viktoriia; Grytten, Ola Honningdal (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 ...

• Motivating Low-Achievers—Relative Performance Feedback in Primary Schools 

  Hermes, Henning; Huschens, Martin; Rothlauf, Franz; Schunk, Daniel (DP SAM;14/2019, Working paper, 2019-06-23)

  Relative performance feedback (RPF) has often been shown to improve effort and performance in the workplace and educational settings. Yet, many studies also document substantial negative effects of RPF, in particular for ...

• Self-regulation Training and Job Search Behavior: A Natural Field Experiment Within an Active Labor Market Program 

  Berger, Eva M; Hermes, Henning; Koenig, Guenther; Schmidt, Felix; Schunk, Daniel (DP SAM;13/2019, Working paper, 2019-06)

  Existing evidence suggests that self-regulation plays an important role in the job search process and labor market reintegration of unemployed persons. We conduct a randomized natural field experiment embedded in an ...

• Robust Information Aggregation Through Voting 

  Midjord, Rune; Rodríguez Barraquer, Tomás; Valasek, Justin (DP SAM;12/2019, Working paper, 2019-06-10)

  Numerous theoretical studies have shown that information aggregation through voting is fragile. We consider a model of information aggregation with vote-contingent payoffs and generically characterize voting behavior in ...

• Bør den indirekte pressestøtten gis som momsfritak eller skattefradrag? : 

  Kind, Hans Jarle; Møen, Jarle (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)

  Papiraviser er fritatt for moms. Dette representerer en indirekte subsidie i størrelsesorden 1,5 milliarder kroner per år. Skattefradrag for redaksjonelle kostnader har vært foreslått som et supplerende virkemiddel i en ...

• Relative purchasing power parity and the European monetary union: Evidence from eastern Europe 

  Findreng, Jon Håkon (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)

  This paper examine whether relative purchasing power parity holds for Albania, Bulgaria, Croatia, FYR Macedonia, Romania and Turkey versus Germany over the period January 1999 to May 2013. We investigate the real ...

• The public procurement of information systems: dialectics in requirements specification 

  Moe, Carl Erik; Newman, Michael; Sein, Maung Kyaw (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)

  When acquiring information systems, public entities face a dilemma. On the one hand, they want to procure the system that best suits their needs, which often requires lengthy dialogues with vendors. At the same time, they ...

• The Effect of Fast and Slow Decisions on Financial Risk Taking 

  Kirchler, Michael; Andersson, David; Bonn, Caroline; Johannesson, Magnus; Sørensen, Erik Øiolf; Stefan, Matthias; Tinghög, Gustav; Västfjell, Daniel (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)

  We experimentally compare fast and slow decisions in a series of Experiments on financial risk taking in three countries involving over 1700 subjects. To manipulate fast and slow decisions, subjects were randomly allocated ...

• Spillovers from US monetary policy: evidence from a time varying parameter global vector auto-regressive model 

  Crespo Cuaresma, Jesus; Doppelhofer, Gernot Peter; Feldkircher, Martin; Huber, Florian (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)

  The paper develops a global vector auto-regressive model with time varying parameters and stochastic volatility to analyse whether international spillovers of US monetary policy have changed over time. The model proposed ...

• Reducing Early Pregnancy in Low-Income Countries : a literature review and new evidence 

  Berge, Lars Ivar Oppedal; Bjorvatn, Kjetil; Maalim, Amina Mohamed; Somville, Vincent; Tungodden, Bertil (Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2018)

• Risk Taking and Fiscal Smoothing with Sovereign Wealth Funds in Advanced Economies 

  Mork, Knut A.; Lindset, Snorre (Peer reviewed, 2019)

  In an economy with a sovereign wealth fund (SWF), the government may draw on the fund to supplement other government revenues. If the fund is invested in risky assets, this introduces a new stochastic element into the ...

• Generational links between entrepreneurship, management and puritanism 

  Grytten, Ola Honningdal; Minde, Kjell Bjørn (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)

  This paper deals with relationships between puritanism, management and entrepreneurship. As this is an on-going debate among economic historians, it focuses on the period from the early 1800s until present times, where ...

• Public finances, governance control and economic growth: a macroeconomic history approach 

  Grytten, Ola Honningdal (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)

  The size of the public sector is an important tool in public governance. Public sector size may fuel both economic growth and political influence over the economy. By compiling and processing data from different sources ...

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