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Educational attainment and family background
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2005-04)This paper analyses the effect of aspects of family background, such as family income and parental education, on the educational attainment of persons born from 1967 to 1972. Family income is measured at different periods ... -
Edutainment and entrepreneurship : a field experiment on youth in Tanzania
(Master thesis, 2011)The aim of our thesis is to examine an innovative way to educate people in developing countries about business training. This paper analyses whether the edutainment show Ruka Juu, broadcasted in Tanzania in the spring ... -
The effect of cross-border shopping on commodity tax revenue: Results from a natural experiment
(SAM DP;09/2022, Working paper, 2022-06-20)We use grocery data from Norway and COVID-19 border closings to gauge the effect of cross-border shopping on commodity tax revenue. Detailed store-category level data identify differential treatment effects that depend on ... -
The Effect of Gender-Targeted Transfers: Experimental Evidence From India
(DP SAM;16/2020, Working paper, 2020-09)Women are the primary recipients of many welfare programs around the world. Despite frequent claims that targeting women induces beneficial consumption shifting and gender equality, the empirical evidence on the effect of ... -
The Effect of Labor Market Competition on Firms, Workers, and Communities
(SAM DP;17/2022, Working paper, 2022-11)This paper isolates the impact of labor market competition on firms, workers, and communities. A shock to labor mobility from Sweden to Norway caused a substantial increase in labor competition for Swedish firms on the ... -
The Effect of Labor Market Shocks Across the Life Cycle
(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 ... -
Effectiveness of a girls’ empowerment programme on early childbearing, marriage and school dropout among adolescent girls in rural Zambia: study protocol for a cluster randomized trial
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)Background: Adolescent pregnancies pose a risk to the young mothers and their babies. In Zambia, 35% of young girls in rural areas have given birth by the age of 18 years. Pregnancy rates are particularly high among ... -
The effects of different strategic variables in non-cooperative fisheries games
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2006-10)In this paper we use stock size, harvest quantity and fishing effort, respectively, as strategic variables. We model a two agent (nations) non-cooperative fishery game, where the agents harvest a common fish stock. The ... -
Effekten av digitale ordbøker i norsk skole: bedre språk eller tomme ord?
(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 ... -
Efficiency losses in milk marketing boards : the importance of exports
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2006-02)A milk marketing board (MMB) is a well known instrument for regulating the markets for dairy products. MMBs are based on price discrimination, and receipts from sales are pooled so that the farmers receive a single price ... -
Efficiency, equality and reciprocity in social preferences : a comparison of students and representative population
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2010-11)The debate between Engelmann and Strobel (2004, 2006) and Fehr, Naef, and Schmidt (2006) highlights the important question of the extent to which lab experiments on student populations can serve to identify the motivational ... -
Efficient (re-)scheduling : an auction approach
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2003-10)This paper considers one-sided scheduling problems, where a schedule of service is arranged at one location, without regard to other schedules. Typically, such scheduling problems are handled on a first-come-firstserve basis, ... -
Eksempelets makt : eksterne effekter av lederkompensasjon
(Master thesis, 2013)Målet med denne masterutredningen er å undersøke om bruk av lederkompensasjon kan fortrenge andres motivasjon. Kompensasjon kan være et nødvendig virkemiddel for å tiltrekke seg ressurssterke kandidater til lederrollen, ... -
Eldre i arbeidslivet : hvordan vil økonomiske insentiver påvirke etterspørselen etter eldre arbeidskraft?
(Master thesis, 2016)I debatten om yrkesdeltakelse blant eldre har hovedfokuset de siste årene vært på tilbudet av arbeidskraft, nærmere bestemt hvordan man kan få eldre til å ville stå lenger i arbeid. Det er blitt viet lite oppmerksomhet til ... -
Electricity Prices, River Temperatures and Cooling Water Scarcity
(Discussion Papers;18/2011, Working paper, 2011-09)Thermal-based power stations rely on water for cooling purposes. These water sources may be subject to incidents of scarcity, environmental regulations and competing economic concerns. This paper analyses the effect of ... -
An empirical analysis of a discriminatory, closed, simultaneous,multi-object auction
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Empirical essays on the dynamics of consumption and saving
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Employment changes, the structure of adjustment costs, and plant size
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2003-11)In this paper we analyze the pattern of employment adjustment using a rich panel of Norwegian plants. The data suggest that the frequency of episodes of zero net employment changes is inversely related to plant size. We ... -
Employment Effects of Healthcare Policy: Evidence from the 2007 FDA Black Box Warning on Antidepressants
(DP SAM;01/2019, Working paper, 2019-01-04)Public policies aimed at improving health may have indirect effects on outcomes such as education and employment. We study the labor market effects of a 2007 regulatory action by the US Food and Drug Administration, in ... -
Employment policies at the plant level : job and worker flows for heterogeneous labour in Norway
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 1999-03)Despite the large degree of plant-specific heterogeneity in turnover patterns recently found in the gross job and worker literature, very little is known about the sources of the heterogeneity in plant level employment policies. ...