• Hospital Competition in a National Health Service: Evidence from a Patient Choice Reform 

  Brekke, Kurt Richard; Canta, Chiara; Siciliani, Luigi; Straume, Odd Rune (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)

• Parental age and birth defects: a sibling study 

  Hvide, Hans K.; Johnsen, Julian Vedeler; Salvanes, Kjell Gunnar (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)

• The merit primacy effect 

  Cappelen, Alexander Wright; Moene, Karl Ove (Kalle); Skjelbred, Siv-Elisabeth; Tungodden, Bertil (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)

  A long history in economics going back to Adam Smith has argued that people give primacy to merit – rather than luck – in distributive choices. We provide a theoretical framework formalizing the merit primacy effect, and ...

• Experimental Research on Retirement Decision-Making: Evidence from Replications 

  Lot, Andre; Bachmann, Kremena; Xu, Xiaogeng; Hens, Thorsten (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)

• Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on sick leave among healthcare workers: a register-based observational study 

  Reme, Bjørn-Atle; Grøsland, Mari; Gjefsen, Hege Marie; Magnusson, Karin (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)

• COVID-19 and mental health: a longitudinal population study from Norway 

  Hvide, Hans K.; Johnsen, Julian Vedeler (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)

• Paying for pharmaceuticals: uniform pricing versus two-part tariffs 

  Brekke, Kurt Richard; Dalen, Dag Morten; Straume, Odd Rune (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)

  Two-part pricing (the Netflix model) has recently been proposed instead of uniform pricing for pharmaceuticals. Under two-part pricing the health plan pays a fixed fee for access to a drug at unit prices equal to marginal ...

• The interplay between technological innovation, energy efficiency, and economic growth: Evidence from 30 European countries 

  Koilo, Viktoriia; Grytten, Ola Honningdal; Emblemsvåg, Jan (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)

• Public governance versus corporate governance: Evidence from oil drilling in forests 

  Cust, James; Harding, Torfinn; Krings, Hanna; Rivera-Ballesteros, Alexis (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)

• The price of cost-effectiveness thresholds under therapeutic competition in pharmaceutical markets 

  Brekke, Kurt Richard; Dalen, Dag Morten; Straume, Odd Rune (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)

• Competing with precision: incentives for developing predictive biomarker tests 

  Brekke, Kurt Richard; Dalen, Dag Morten; Straume, Odd Rune (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)

  We study the incentives of drug producers to develop predictive biomarkers, taking into account strategic interaction between drug producers and health plans. For this purpose, we develop a two-dimensional spatial framework ...

• (Breaking) intergenerational transmission of mental health 

  Bütikofer, Aline; Ginja, Rita; Karbownik, Krzysztof; Landaud, Fanny (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)

• Suspicious minds and views of fairness 

  Schøyen, Øivind (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)

• Creating pro-environmental behavior change: Economic incentives or norm-nudges? 

  Ekström, Mathias; Sjåstad, Hallgeir; Bjorvatn, Kjetil (DP SAM;15/2024, Working paper, 2024-09)

  To mitigate global warming, collective behavior change is needed. But which tools should policymakers prioritize: economic incentives, nudges, or a combination? Current evidence from social science provides little direct ...

• Essays on the Formation and Identification of Economic Preferences 

  Moorthy, Akshay (Doctoral thesis, 2024-09)

• Essays in Industrial Organization of Spatially Differentiated Markets 

  Ozhegova, Alina (Doctoral thesis, 2024-08)

• Essays on Group Identity and Economic Behavior 

  Carvajal, Daniel (Doctoral thesis, 2024-08)

• Exposure to diversity, social proximity and ingroup bias 

  Carvajal, Daniel (DP SAM;14/2024, Working paper, 2024-07-30)

  As society becomes increasingly diverse, will changes in an individual’s exposure to diversity influence their interactions with others? I study prosocial behavior in a large-scale U.S. sample, where participants are ...

• Worker Power, Immigrant Sorting, and Firm Dynamics 

  Silliman, Mikko; Willén, Alexander (DP SAM;13/2024, Working paper, 2024-07-05)

  This paper examines how worker power shapes the allocation of immigrants across firms, and the subsequent consequences of such sorting on firm performance and the careers of incumbent workers. Our analysis highlights several ...

• Cross-border shopping of alcohol – What is the effect on tax revenue and sales and which products are most affected? 

  Friberg, Richard; Steen, Frode; Ulsaker, Simen A. (DP SAM;12/2024, Working paper, 2024-07-04)

  We use COVID-19 border closings and comprehensive store-level data on Norwegian alcohol sales to quantify the effect cross-border shopping of alcohol on sales volume and commodity tax revenue. Effects are large, for instance ...

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