• 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 ...

• Fertility, Partner Choice, and Human Capital 

  Abel, Eirik B.; Bütikofer, Aline; Salvanes, Kjell Gunnar (DP SAM;11/2024, Working paper, 2024-07)

  This paper generates new insights into the effect of education on fertility and partner choice across multiple generations. Using an intensity-of-treatment design, we leverage population-wide panel data for Norway in ...

• Insurance against Income Shocks, Parental Investments, and Child Development 

  Carneiro, Pedro; Salvanes, Kjell Gunnar; Tominey, Emma (DP SAM;10/2024, Working paper, 2024-06-11)

  Faced with income shocks, households may be unable to smooth their consumption, because of limited insurance possibilities. Likewise, it may also be difficult to smooth investments in children. This could have large ...

• Essays on Poverty and Economic Development 

  Nasgowitz, Arne (Doctoral thesis, 2024-06)

• Fairness Preferences and Default Effects 

  Valasek, Justin; Vorjohann, Pauline; Wang, Weijia (DP SAM;09/2024, Working paper, 2024-06)

  An influential subset of the literature on distributional preferences studies how preferences condition on characteristics such as workers' relative productivity. In this study we establish that there are default effects ...

• Asymmetric cost transmission and market power in retail gasoline markets 

  Rrukaj, Ritvana; Steen, Frode (DP SAM;08/2024, Working paper, 2024-05-30)

  Estimating non-linear autoregressive distributed lag models, we establish shortrun cost pass-through in the Swedish retail gasoline market. Our findings reveal a slower correction of disequilibrium error in volume-adjusted ...

• Choosing Between Causal Interpretations: An Experimental Study 

  Ambuehl, Sandro; Thysen, Heidi C. (DP SAM;07/2024, Working paper, 2024-05-23)

  Good decision-making requires understanding the causal impact of our actions. Often, we only have access to correlational data that could stem from multiple causal mechanisms with divergent implications for choice. Our ...

• Competition and Price Discrimination in International Transportation 

  Ignatenko, Anna (DP SAM;06/2024, Working paper, 2024-05)

  This paper documents price discrimination by transport companies, revealing their market power. Larger shipments of similar products sharing a container receive lower prices. A trade model with non-linear pricing of ...

• Convergence between the Baltic and the Nordic economies: Some reflections based on new data for the Baltic countries 

  Bruno, Lars Christian; Grytten, Ola Honningdal (DP SAM;05/2024, Working paper, 2024-04-18)

  This short paper uses recent estimates of GDP per capita for the Baltic countries for the 1919-2020(22) period to test for convergence between the Baltic and the Nordic economies. Drawing from the methodology used in Bernard ...

• Innocuous Exam Features? The Impact of Answer Placement on High-Stakes Test Performance and College Admissions 

  Franco, Catalina; Povea, Erika (DP SAM;04/2024, Working paper, 2024-04-14)

  We exploit randomness in college entrance exams in Colombia to study how the placement of answers impacts multiple-choice test results and access to college. Using administrative data, we find that: first, applicants are ...

• Will Artificial Intelligence Get in the Way of Achieving Gender Equality? 

  Carvajal, Daniel; Franco, Catalina; Isaksson, Siri (DP SAM;03/2024, Working paper, 2024-03-14)

  We conduct two survey experiments to examine gender differences in generative AI adoption and potential labor market consequences. First, we document a substantial gender gap among students at a top business school in ...

• Does increasing inequality threaten social stability? Evidence from the lab 

  Barr, Abigail; Hochleitner, Anna; Sonderegger, Silvia (DP SAM;02/2024, Working paper, 2024-03)

  We study the relationship between inequality and social instability. While the argument that inequality can be damaging for the cohesion of a society is well established, the empirical evidence is mixed. We use a novel ...

• Smartphone Bans, Student Outcomes and Mental Health 

  Abrahamsson, Sara (DP SAM;01/2024, Working paper, 2024-02)

  How smartphone usage affects well-being and learning among children and adolescents is a concern for schools, parents, and policymakers. Combining detailed administrative data with survey data on middle schools’ smartphone ...

• How Do Firms Respond to Unions? 

  Dodini, Samuel; Stansbury, Anna; Willén, Alexander (DP SAM;25/2023, Working paper, 2023-12-22)

  This paper provides a comprehensive assessment of the margins along which firms in Norway respond to increased union density, using legislative changes in the tax deductibility of union dues as a quasi-exogenous shock to ...

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