• If You Could Read My Mind—An Experimental Beauty-Contest Game with Children 

  Hermes, Henning; Schunk, Daniel (DP SAM;23/2019, Working paper, 2019-11)

  We develop a new design for the experimental beauty-contest game (BCG) that is suitable for children in school age and test it with 114 schoolchildren aged 9–11 years. In addition, we collect measures on cognitive skills ...

• Maritime Financial Instability and Supply Chain Management Effects 

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

  The paper investigates the offshore crisis 2015–2017 and its impact on central international offshore oil and gas related maritime cluster, the Blue Maritime Cluster, located at the North-Western coast of Norway. This ...

• You’ve Got Mail: A Randomized Field Experiment on Tax Evasion 

  Bott, Kristina; Cappelen, Alexander Wright; Sørensen, Erik Øiolf; Tungodden, Bertil (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)

  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. By randomly manipulating a letter ...

• Tax-free digital news? 

  Foros, Øystein; Kind, Hans Jarle; Wyndham, Timothy G.A. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)

  News platforms are struggling. Their printed readership is predominantly old, and their digital product struggles to win the attention of the young. For several decades tax reductions have been used in Europe to increase ...

• Evaluating Carbon Capture and Storage in a Climate Model with Endogenous Technical Change 

  Durmaz, Tunç; Schroyen, Fred (DP SAM;22/2019, Working paper, 2019-10-16)

  We assess the extent to which Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) and R&D on this abatement technology are part of a socially efficient solution to the problem of climate change. For this purpose, we extend the intertemporal ...

• Hump-shaped cross-price effects and the extensive margin in cross-border shopping 

  Friberg, Richard; Steen, Frode; Ulsaker, Simen A. (DP SAM;20/2019, Working paper, 2019-09-23)

  This paper examines the effect of cross-border shopping on grocery demand in Norway using monthly store×category sales data from Norway’s largest grocery chain 2011-2016. The sensitivity of demand to foreign price is ...

• Market Power in Retail Gasoline Markets 

  Nguyen-Ones, Mai; Steen, Frode (DP SAM;21/2019, Working paper, 2019-07)

  We estimate a structural model to uncover the degree of competition in retail gasoline markets using daily station-level data on quantity and price from the Swedish market. The structural model enables us to consider key ...

• 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 ...

• 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, 2019-11)

  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 ...

• 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 ...

• 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, 2019-10)

  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 ...

• 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 ...

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