• Two centuries of economic growth: Norwegian GDP 1816-2020 

  Grytten, Ola Honningdal (DP SAM;10/2020, Working paper, 2020-06)

  Existing historical GDP series for Norway do not always coincide with our historical knowledge of the economic development. This is to a large extent a result of lack of calculations from the production side and in addition ...

• The Impact of Working Memory Training on Children’s Cognitive and Noncognitive Skills 

  Berger, Eva M.; Fehr, Ernst; Hermes, Henning; Schunk, Daniel; Winkel, Kirsten (DP SAM;09/2020, Working paper, 2020-06-08)

  Working memory capacity is thought to play an important role for a wide range of cognitive and noncognitive skills such as fluid intelligence, math, reading, the inhibition of pre-potent impulses or more general self-regulation ...

• Weber revisited: A literature review on the possible Link between Protestantism, Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth 

  Grytten, Ola Honningdal (DP SAM;08/2020, Working paper, 2020-06)

  The present paper looks at the Weber-Tawney thesis on the positive link between Protestant ethic and economic growth. Both scholars observed that Protestant areas in the Western world seemed to gain faster and more wealth ...

• Do Generous Parental Leave Policies Help Top Female Earners? 

  Corekcioglu, Gozde; Francesconi, Marco; Kunze, Astrid (DP SAM;07/2020, Working paper, 2020-05)

  Generous government-mandated parental leave is generally viewed as an effective policy to support women’s careers around childbirth. But does it help women to reach top positions in the upper pay echelon of their firms? ...

• Essays on household decision-making and women’s labor supply in Ethiopia 

  Sandra Kristine, Halvorsen (Doctoral thesis, 2020-06)

• Solidarity and Fairness in Times of Crisis 

  Cappelen, Alexander W.; Falch, Ranveig; Sørensen, Erik Ø.; Tungodden, Bertil (DP SAM;06/2020, Working paper, 2020-05-14)

  In a large-scale pre-registered survey experiment with a representative sample of more than 8,000 Americans, we examine how the COVID-19 pandemic causally affects people’s solidarity and fairness. We randomly manipulate ...

• Moral motivation in dictator games 

  Halvorsen, Trond (Doctoral thesis, 2013-05)

• Essays in Political Economy 

  Elvik Næss, Ole-Andreas (Doctoral thesis, 2020-05)

• Exclusionary contracts and incentives to innovate 

  Ulsaker, Simen A. (DP SAM;05/2020, Working paper, 2020-06)

  The article considers a situation where several firms have the opportunity to sell an identical product to a set of buyers, and where each seller can invest in R&D to develop a higher quality version of the product in ...

• Institutions and the location of oil exploration 

  Cust, James; Harding, Torfinn (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)

• Essays in Economic Measurement and Consumer Behavior 

  Ugurlu, Serhat (Doctoral thesis, 2018-06)

• The Labor Market in Norway: 2000-2018 

  Nilsen, Øivind A. (DP SAM;04/2020, Working paper, 2020-04-06)

  Norway has a rather high labor force participation rate and a very low unemployment rate. Part of the reason for this fortunate situation is the so-called “tripartism”: a broad agreement among unions, employers and government ...

• Essays on industrial organisation 

  Guy Alaric Wyndham, Timothy (Doctoral thesis, 2020-04)

  This dissertation examines the implications of changes in technology and government regulations for the prices consumers pay and the volumes they consume in two important markets: the market for news and the market for ...

• Samuel Pufendorf The Grandfather of Modern Political Economy? 

  Sæther, Arild (Doctoral thesis, 2017-02)

• Occupational structure in England and Wales during the industrial revolution 

  Meidell, Jan Erik (Doctoral thesis, 2016-06)

• Essays in Development Economics 

  Juniwaty, Kartika Sari (Doctoral thesis, 2013-05)

• Losing in a Boom: Long-term Consequences of a Local Economic Shock for Female Labour Market Outcomes 

  Bennett, Patrick; Ravetti, Chiara; Wong, Po Yin (DP SAM;03/2020, Working paper, 2020-02)

  This paper examines the long-term labour market consequences of a positive economic shock, the first discovery of oil and gas in Norway. Existing studies focus on the short-term and men, while less is known about women and ...

• Water. Energy. Climate. Essays in Empirical Enviromental Economics 

  McDermott, Grant R. (Doctoral thesis, 2015-12)

• Legitimacy under dual moralities 

  Schøyen, Øivind (Doctoral thesis, 2018-06)

  This dissertation is about the dynamics that may arise when actors seek to socialize others into their moralities, interpret whether moralities, or selfish motives, motivate actions, or enforce their views of what is ...

• Essays on Talent Discovery and Allocation 

  Picariello, Luca (Doctoral thesis, 2018-06)

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