Browsing Department of Economics by Author "Salvanes, Kjell G."
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Breaking the Links: Natural Resource Booms and Intergenerational Mobility
Bütikofer, Aline; Dalla-Zuanna, Antonio; Salvanes, Kjell G. (DP SAM;19/2018, Working paper, 2018-09)Do large economic shocks increase intergenerational earnings mobility through creating new economic opportunities? Alternatively, do they reduce mobility by reinforcing the links between generations? In this paper, we ... -
The Career Effects of Union Membership
Dodini, Samuel; Salvanes, Kjell G.; Willén, Alexander; Zhu, Li (SAM DP;12/2023, Working paper, 2023-05)We combine exogenous variation in union membership with detailed administrative data and a novel field survey to estimate the career effects of labor union membership. In the survey, we show how workers perceive the role ... -
Childhood Nutrition and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from a School Breakfast Program
Bütikofer, Aline; Mølland, Eirin; Salvanes, Kjell G. (DP SAM;15/2016, Working paper, 2016-11-29)While a growing literature documents the short-term effects of public programs providing children with nutritious food, there is scarce evidence of the long-term eects of such programs. This paper studies the long-term ... -
Disease Control and Inequality Reduction: Evidence from a Tuberculosis Testing and Vaccination Campaign
Bütikofer, Aline; Salvanes, Kjell G. (SAM;28/2015, Working paper, 2015-12-02)This paper examines the economic impact of a tuberculosis control program launched in Norway in 1948. In the 1940s, Norway had one of the highest tuberculosis infection rates in Europe, affecting about 85 percent of the ... -
Education Research and Administrative Data
Figlio, David; Karbownik, Krzysztof; Salvanes, Kjell G. (Discussion paper;24/15, Working paper, 2015-10)Thanks to extraordinary and exponential improvements in data storage and computing capacities, it is now possible to collect, manage, and analyze data in magnitudes and in manners that would have been inconceivable just ... -
The Effect of Labor Market Shocks Across the Life Cycle
Salvanes, Kjell G.; Willage, Barton; Willén, Alexander (SAM DP;21/2021, Working paper, 2021-12)Adverse economic shocks occur frequently and may cause individuals to reevaluate key life decisions in ways that have lasting consequences for themselves and the broader economy. These life decisions are fundamentally tied ... -
Effekten av digitale ordbøker i norsk skole: bedre språk eller tomme ord?
Haga, Fredrik; Stræte, Espen Thorsen (Master thesis, 2015)I denne oppgaven har vi forsøkt å finne ut om bruk av digitale ordbøker fra iFinger fører til bedre karakterer i språkfag i norsk skole. iFinger har blitt innført på videregående skoler og ungdomsskoler ved forskjell ... -
Fairness and family background
Almås, Ingvild; Cappelen, Alexander W.; Salvanes, Kjell G.; Sørensen, Erik Ø.; Tungodden, Bertil (Discussion paper;25/15, Working paper, 2015-10)Fairness preferences fundamentally affect individual behavior and play an important role in shaping social and political institutions. However, people differ both with respect to what they view as fair and with respect ... -
Gender-biased technological change: Milking machines and the exodus of women from farming
Ager, Philipp; Goñi, Marc; Salvanes, Kjell G. (Working paper, 2023-08-14)This paper studies the link between gender-biased technological change in the agricultural sector and structural transformation in Norway. After WWII, Norwegian farms began widely adopting milking machines to replace the ... -
Healthy(?), Wealthy, and Wise Birth Order and Adult Health.
Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Salvanes, Kjell G. (SAM;03/2016, Working paper, 2016-02-12)While recent research finds strong evidence that birth order affects children’s outcomes such as education, IQ scores, and earnings, the evidence for effects on health is more limited. This paper uses a large dataset on ... -
Income distribution and income inequality in Norway in 1930
Singh, Pushkar (Master thesis, 2016)Income inequality is one of the most widely researched topics in economics. Norway and other Scandinavian countries are amongst the most equal countries in world and economists love studying historical inequality in these ... -
Intergenerational Mobility and the Timing of Parental Income
Carneiro, Pedro; Garcia, Italo Lopez; Salvanes, Kjell G.; Tominey, Emma (Discussion paper;23/15, Working paper, 2015-10)We extend the standard intergenerational mobility literature by modelling individual outcomes as a function of the whole history of parental income, using data from Norway. We find that, conditional on permanent income, ... -
Job Loss and Regional Mobility.
Huttunen, Kristiina; Møen, Jarle; Salvanes, Kjell G. (DP SAM;17/2016, Working paper, 2016-11-29)It is well documented that displaced workers suffer severe earnings losses, but not why this is so. One reason may be that workers are unable or unwilling to move to regions with better employment opportunities. We study ... -
Langturnus i helsevesenet : en studie for å avdekke hvordan langturnus fungerer i pleie- og omsorgssektoren i Bergen kommune
Abbedissen, Katrine; Mannsverk, Katrine (Master thesis, 2016)Etterspørselen etter arbeidskraft i helse- og omsorgssektoren er et økende problem ettersom man står ovenfor en aldrende befolkning. Samtidig er dette en sektor med en svært høy andel deltidsansatte. For å oppnå effektiv ... -
Long-Term Consequences of Access to Well-child Visits.
Bütikofer, Aline; Løken, Katrine V.; Salvanes, Kjell G. (SAM;29/2015, Working paper, 2015-12-02)A growing literature documents the positive long-term effects of policy-induced improvements in early-life health and nutrition. However, there is still scarce evidence on early-life health programs targeting a large share ... -
The Making of Social Democracy: The Economic and Electoral Consequences of Norway’s 1936 Folk School Reform
Acemoglu, Daron; Pekkarinen, Tuomas; Salvanes, Kjell G.; Sarvimäki, Matti (SAM DP;14/2021, Working paper, 2021-08)Upon assuming power for the first time in 1935, the Norwegian Labour Party delivered on its promise for a major schooling reform. The reform raised minimum instruction time in less developed rural areas and boosted the ... -
Natural Resources, Demand for Skills, and Schooling Choices
Bütikofer, Aline; Dalla-Zuanna, Antonio; Salvanes, Kjell G. (SAM DP;15/2023, Working paper, 2023-06-30)This paper studies the consequences of the buildup of a new economic sector—the Norwegian petroleum industry—on investment in human capital. We assess both short-term and long-term effects for a broad set of educational ... -
Prestasjonsbasert lønn og turnover : en empirisk undersøkelse på tvers av landegrenser
Døsen, Ingeborg; Wastian, Georg Andreas Lokna (Master thesis, 2015)I denne utredningen har vi utforsket sammenhengen mellom bruk av bonusordninger, særlig prestasjonsbasert lønn, og turnover for tre sosiale klynger; Skandinavia (Norge, Sverige, Danmark), Anglo (USA, Storbritannia) og ... -
The evolution of social mobility: Norway over the 20th century.
Pekkarinen, Tuomas; Salvanes, Kjell G.; Sarvimäki, Matti (SAM;02/2016, Working paper, 2016-02-12)This paper documents trends in social mobility in Norway starting from fathers born at the turn of the 20th century and ending with sons born in the 1970s. We measure social mobility with intergenerational income ... -
The Family Peer Effect on Mothers´ Labour Supply
Nicoletti, Cheti; Salvanes, Kjell G.; Tominey, Emma (SAM;7/2016, Working paper, 2016-04-26)The well documented rise in female labour force participation in the last century has flattened in recent decades, but the proportion of mothers working full-time has been steadily increasing. In this paper we provide the ...