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Articles (SAM) [158]
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Books [5]
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CELE - Master thesis [12]
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Discussion papers (SAM) [662]
Recent Submissions
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Essays on Equality, Intergenerational Mobility and Family Formation
(Doctoral thesis, 2024-11) -
Understanding Stress and Redistributive Choice: Evidence from Three Economic Experiments
(Doctoral thesis, 2024-11) -
Health dynamics, life expectancy heterogeneity, and the racial gap in Social Security wealth
(DP SAM;18/2024, Working paper, 2024-10-28)Using biennial data from the Health and Retirement Study, we estimate agedependent health dynamics and survival probabilities at annual frequency conditional on race, sex, self-reported health and other covariates. The ... -
Fairness in a Society of Unequal Opportunities
(DP SAM;17/2024, Working paper, 2024-10-21)Modern societies are characterized by widespread disparities in opportunities, creating income inequality between people whose choices were shaped by different circumstances. This paper investigates how people handle income ... -
Care or Cash? The Effect of Child Care Subsidies on Student Performance
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Sharing the Northeast Atlantic mackerel
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2013)The sharing of the Northeast Atlantic mackerel (Scomber scombrus) stock is analysed as a game between four parties: the European Union, Norway, the Faroe Islands, and Iceland. Consideration is given to how the outcome ... -
Essays on Conflict and Ethnic Tensions
(Doctoral thesis, 2024-10) -
Optimal hospital payment rules under rationing by waiting
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)We derive optimal rules for paying hospitals for non-emergency care when providers choose quality and capacity, and patient demand is rationed by waiting time. Waiting for treatment is costly for patients, so that hospital ... -
Going fast or going green? Evidence from environmental speed limits in Norway
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)This paper studies the impact of speed limits on local air pollution using a series of date-specific speed limit reductions in Oslo over the 2004–2011 period. We find that lowering the speed limit from 80 to 60 km/h reduces ... -
The Customer is King: Evidence on VAT Compliance in Tanzania
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Value Added Tax (VAT) has emerged as one of the main modes of raising tax revenue worldwide, but has significantly underperformed as a revenue source in African countries. To improve compliance, Tanzania has introduced ... -
Conflict or cooperation? Experimental evidence on intra-household allocations in Ethiopia
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Bayesian Model Averaging with the Integrated Nested Laplace Approximation
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The (un)compromise effect: How suggested alternatives can promote active choice
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Public R&D support and firm performance: A multivariate dose-response analysis
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020) -
The wealth of nations and sustainable development: energy intensity and the environmental Kuznets curve
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020) -
Consumption and Wage Inequality in the US:The Dynamics of the Last Three Decades
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What limits the efficacy of coercion?
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Norwegian Cartels: Law, Policy, Registration and Practice under the Price and Competition Act between 1954 and 1993
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Green process innovation: Where we are and where we are going
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Childless Aristocrats. Inheritance and the extensive margin of fertility
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Using genealogical data of British aristocrats, we show that inheritances can affect childlessness. We study settlements, a contract restricting heirs’ powers and settling bequests for yet-to-be-born generations. Settlements ...