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Does education foster voter participation? : an empirical study using a Norwegian school reform
(Master thesis, 2016)There is a common agreement that education is an essential part of a stable democracy. This is based on the belief that education encourages citizens to participate in democratic processes, and provides them with the ... -
Does ethnicity affect normal people in non-political times?
(Master thesis, 2014)The intention with this study is to contribute to the field of research that looks at the impact of ethnic divergence in a country. More specifically, I investigate social cooperation in an ethnic diversified society by ... -
Does grief transfer across generations? Bereavements during pregnancy and child outcomes
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)Using population data from Norway, we examine the effects of stress induced by the death of the mother’s parent during pregnancy on both the short-run and the long-run outcomes of the infant. Using a variety of empirical ... -
Does grief transfer across generations? In-utero deaths and child outcomes
(Discussion paper;23/2014, Working paper, 2014-06)While much is now known about the effects of physical health shocks to pregnant women on the outcomes of the in-utero child, we know little about the effects of psychological stresses. One clear form of stress to the ... -
Does increasing inequality threaten social stability? Evidence from the lab
(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 ... -
Does Increasing Risk Widen Gender Gaps?
(SAM DP;20/2022, Working paper, 2022-12)We examine the response to an exogenous change in the risk profile of an important educational choice – requesting a regrade. We demonstrate how ostensibly gender-neutral policies can generate gaps across men and women ... -
Does Reference Pricing Drive Out Generic Competition in Pharmaceutical Markets? Evidence from a Policy Reform
(Discussion paper;11/15, Working paper, 2015-06)In this paper we study the impact of reference pricing (RP) on entry of generic firms in the pharmaceutical market. For given prices, RP increases generic firms' expected profit, but since RP also stimulates price ... -
Does the tax system encourage too much education?
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2000-07)The Nordic countries have dual income taxation, with a proportional tax on capital income and a progressive tax on labour income. Nielsen and Sørensen (1997) argue that this asymmetric treatment of the two types of income ... -
Does Wealth Reduce Support for Redistribution? Evidence from an Ethiopian Housing Lottery
(DP SAM;18/2020, Working paper, 2020-09)We provide causal evidence of how an increase in wealth affects support for redistribution and beliefs about the causes of poverty. Exploiting the variation in wealth created by an Ethiopian housing lottery, we show that ... -
Does Your Doctor Matter? Doctor Quality and Patient Outcomes
(SAM DP;08/2022, Working paper, 2022-06)We estimate doctor value-added and provide evidence on the distribution of physician quality in an entire country, combining rich population-wide register data with random assignment of patients to general practitioners ... -
Domestic labour markets and foreign direct investment
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2003-06)We study how the labour market and industry uncertainty affect the investment decisions of multinational enterprises (MNEs). In an uncertain business climate, MNEs must take account of the future in deciding where to ... -
Domestic Violence and the Mental Health and Well-being of Victims and Their Children
(SAM DP;21/2022, Working paper, 2021-12-14)Almost one third of women worldwide report some form of physical or sexual violence by a partner in their lifetime, yet little is known about the mental health and well-being effects for either victims or their children. ... -
The dual income tax and firms’ income shifting through the choice of organizational form and real capital investments
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2003-07)The dual income tax provides the self-employed entrepreneur with huge incentives to participate in tax minimizing income shifting to have more of his income taxed as capital income. The Norwegian split model is designed ... -
Dynamics of First-Time Patenting Firms
(SAM DP;11/2022, Working paper, 2022-08)This paper investigates firm dynamics in the period before, during, and after an event consisting of a first published patent application. The analysis is based on patent data from the Norwegian Industrial Property Office ... -
Economic growth and purchasing power parities in the Nordic countries 1830-1910
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2003-07)The present paper examines new estimates of GDP for the five Nordic countries 1830-1910 in terms of economic growth and purchasing power parities. It concludes that significant economic growth took place during the period. ... -
Economic integration and redistributive taxation
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2006-04)We set up a simple political economy model where economic integration raises the profitability of multinational firms. In this setting redistributive taxation may rise following economic integration, if the effects of ... -
Economics for peace : Léon Walras and the Nobel peace prize
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2007-02)This paper is an account of the history of the attempt by Léon Walras to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1906. It describes Walras’ moves to get three of his Lausanne colleagues to nominate him for the Prize, the ... -
The Economics of Hypergamy
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Partner selection is a vital feature of human behavior with important consequences for individuals, families, and society. We use the term hypergamy to describe a phenomenon whereby there is a tendency for husbands to be ... -
Economies of scale in European manufacturing revisited
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2001-06)We test for internal and external economies of scale in European manufacturing employing a more disaggregated data set than what has been used in earlier analyses, and aim to separate externalities from common business ... -
Education and family background : mechanisms and policies
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2010-05)In every society for which we have data, people’s educational achievement is positively correlated with their parents’ education or with other indicators of their parents’ socioeconomic status. This topic is central in ...