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Parental Leave from the Firm’s Perspective
(DP SAM;11/2025, Working paper, 2025-05-05)This study investigates the firm’s response to parental leave induced worker absence. Combining a 20-week maternal leave expansion in Norway and detailed matched employer-employee data between 1983 and 2013, we identify ... -
The Power to Discriminate
(DP SAM;10/2025, Working paper, 2025-04-07)This paper examines the relationship between labor market power and employer discrimination, providing new causal evidence on when and where discriminatory outcomes arise. We leverage job displacements from mass layoffs ... -
The Fatal Consequences of Brain Drain
(DP SAM;09/2025, Working paper, 2025-04-02)This paper examines the welfare consequences of reallocating high-skilled labor across borders. A labor demand shock in Norway—driven by a surge in oil prices—substantially increased physician wages and sharply raised the ... -
Fair Institutions
(DP SAM;08/2025, Working paper, 2025-04-01)The experimental literature on preferences for redistribution has established that individual perceptions of what earning distributions are fair depend greatly on context. In this paper, we study an important and novel ... -
How Tinted Are Your Glasses? Gender Views, Beliefs and Recommendations in Hiring
(DP SAM;07/2025, Working paper, 2025-03-31)We study the gendered impact of recommendations at different stages of the hiring process. First, using a large sample of reference letters from the academic job market for economists, we document that women receive fewer ... -
Fairness Across the World
(DP SAM;06/2025, Working paper, 2025-03-25)This paper provides global evidence on the nature of inequality acceptance, based on a large-scale experimental study with more than 65,000 individuals across 60 countries. We show that, across the world, the source of ... -
Essays on Economics of Education
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Firms’ Beliefs About Wage Setting
(DP SAM;05/2025, Working paper, 2025-03-06)This paper yields new insights into why similar workers are paid differently by surveying a representative sample of Danish firms and linking responses to administrative data. We find that a substantial minority of firms, ... -
Why Firms Lay Off Workers Instead of Cutting Wages: Evidence From Linked Survey-Administrative Data
(DP SAM;04/2025, Working paper, 2024-02)We use a novel large-scale survey of firms, implemented in Denmark in 2021 and linked to administrative data, to study why firms lay off workers instead of cutting wages. Our questions on layoffs, wage cuts, and the link ... -
Income Equality in The Nordic Countries: Myths, Facts, and Lessons
(DP SAM;03/2025, Working paper, 2025-02)Policymakers, public commentators, and researchers often cite the Nordic countries as examples of a social and economic model that successfully combines low income inequality with prosperity and growth. This article aims ... -
Public coverage of dental care: universal or targeted?
(DP SAM;02/2025, Working paper, 2025-01-27)This paper analyses the impact of public dental care coverage-universal versus targeted-on access, pricing, and public spending in a model with two competing dental practices and heterogeneous patient income groups. We ... -
Competition matters: uniform vs. indication-based pricing of pharmaceuticals
(DP SAM;01/2025, Working paper, 2025-01)Pharmaceutical expenditures are rising rapidly, driven in part by the innovation of highly effective but very expensive drug therapies that treat multiple diseases. While these drugs offer substantial health benefits, ... -
Claudia Goldin: Nobel Laureate 2023 and Her Impact on Understanding Women’s Position in the Labour Market
(DP SAM;19/2024, Working paper, 2024-12)On 9 October 2023, Claudia Goldin was announced as winner of the 2023 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. It can certainly be said that many had long awaited the recognition of her ... -
Essays on Equality, Intergenerational Mobility and Family Formation
(Doctoral thesis, 2024-11) -
Understanding Stress and Redistributive Choice: Evidence from Three Economic Experiments
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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)
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