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Articles (SAM) [105]
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Competitiveness, gender and handedness: a large-sample intercultural study
(DP SAM;02/2020, Working paper, 2020-01)We conduct a large-scale intercultural experiment to elicit competitiveness and ask whether individual and gender differences in competitiveness are partially determined by nature. We use being a “lefty” (i.e., having ... -
Entitled to Leave: the impact of Unenployment Insurance Eligibility on Employment Duration and Job Quality
(DP SAM;01/2020, Working paper, 2020-01-13)Entitlement conditions are a little explored dimension of unemployment insurance (UI) schemes. In this paper, we provide a comprehensive evaluation of a reform that softened the minimum employment record condition to qualify ... -
Having a Daughter Reduces Male Violence Against a Partner
(DP SAM;24/2019, Working paper, 2019-12-28)In a global sample of around 310,000 couples, men whose firstborn child is a girl (instead of a boy) are 10 percent less likely to strangle their partner each year. The probability that they kick, punch, or slap her also ... -
The Declining Role of Western Europe in Shipping and Shipbuilding, 1900–2000
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Conclusion - Shipping and Globalization in the Post-War Era
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Shipping and Globalization in the Post-War Era: Contexts, Companies, Connections
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If You Could Read My Mind—An Experimental Beauty-Contest Game with Children
(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
(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
(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?
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
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Evidence that prenatal testosterone transfer from male twins reduces the fertility and socioeconomic success of their female co-twins
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
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