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    • From Fossil Fuels to Renewables: The Role of Electricity Storage. 

      Lazkano, Itziar; Nøstbakken, Linda; Pelli, Martino (SAM;11/2016, Working paper, 2016-06-07)
      We analyze the role of electricity storage for technological innovations in electricity generation. We propose a directed technological change model of the electricity sector, where innovative firms develop better ...

    • From Quantity to Quality: Delivering a Home-based Parenting Intervention through China’s Family Planning Cadres 

      Sylvia, Sean; Attanasio, Orazio; Warrinnier, Nele; Luo, Renfu; Yue, Ai; Medina, Alexis; Rozelle, Scott (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      A key challenge in developing countries interested in providing early childhood development programs at scale is whether these programs can be effectively delivered through existing public service infrastructures. We ...

    • From the cradle to the labor market? : the effect of birth weight on adult outcomes 

      Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Salvanes, Kjell Gunnar (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2005-11)
      Lower birth weight babies have worse outcomes, both short-run in terms of oneyear mortality rates and longer run in terms of educational attainment and earnings. However, recent research has called into question whether ...

    • Further Unbundling Institutions. 

      Braunfels, Elias (SAM;13/2016, Working paper, 2016-10-07)
      This paper analyzes the effects of institutions on economic development, and focuses on separating political institutions from contracting and economic institutions. For a sample of former European colonies, I find that ...

    • Fusjon i tosidige markeder 

      Kind, Hans Jarle; Sørgard, Lars (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)
      Hvis en bedrift betjener to distinkt forskjellige kundegrupper som påvirker hverandres etterspørsel, vil den typisk operere i et tosidig marked. Eksempelvis betjener en avis både lesere og annonsører. Empiriske undersøkelser ...

    • Gasoline prices jump up on Mondays : an outcome of aggressive competition? 

      Foros, Øystein; Steen, Frode (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2008-03)
      This paper examines Norwegian gasoline pump prices using daily station-specific observations from March 2003 to March 2006. Whereas studies that have analyzed similar price cycles in other countries find support for the ...

    • Gender differences in entry wages and early career wages 

      Kunze, Astrid (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2003-05)
      This paper investigates the gender wage gap in entry wages and in the early career for German skilled workers in the period 1975-1990. We use a new administrative longitudinal data source that allows to observe complete work ...

    • Gender diversity, labour in the boardroom and gender quotas 

      Kunze, Astrid; Scharfenkamp, Katrin (SAM DP;16/2022, Working paper, 2022-10-31)
      This study investigates boards of (non-executive) directors and whether employee representation has a positive effect on gender diversity on boards. We exploit rich, newly assembled board–director matched panel data for ...

    • Gender wage gap studies : consistency and decomposition 

      Kunze, Astrid (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2006-12)
      This paper reviews the empirical literature on the gender wage gap, with particular attention given to the identification of the key parameters in human capital wage regression models. This is of great importance in the ...

    • 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 ...

    • Generational links between entrepreneurship, management and puritanism 

      Grytten, Ola Honningdal; Minde, Kjell Bjørn (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      This paper deals with relationships between puritanism, management and entrepreneurship. As this is an on-going debate among economic historians, it focuses on the period from the early 1800s until present times, where ...

    • Geocomputation and open source software:components and software stacks 

      Bivand, Roger S. (Discussion Papers;23/2011, Working paper, 2011-11)
      Geocomputation, with its necessary focus on software development and methods innovation, has enjoyed a close relationship with free and open source software communities. These extend from communities providing the ...

    • Girl empowerment : a survey of young women in Tanzania 

      Herzig, Laura (Master thesis, 2013)
      This study is a contribution to the Girl Empowerment Project launched by Christian Michelsen Institute (CMI) in cooperation with NHH Norwegian School of Economics, Femina HIP, the Economic and Social Research Foundation ...

    • Girls’ Economic Empowerment – The Best Contraceptive? 

      Blaalid, Monica B-G; Malvik, Reidun Kristina (Master thesis, 2014)
      This paper is written as the final thesis of our master degree in Economics at the Norwegian School of Economics, NHH. The thesis is a contribution to the Girl Empowerment Project – a research project launched by the ...

    • Give and take in dictator games 

      Cappelen, Alexander W.; Nielsen, Ulrik H.; Sørensen, Erik Ø.; Tungodden, Bertil; Tyran, Jean-Robert (Discussion paper;14/2012, Working paper, 2012-07)
      It has been shown that participants in the dictator game are less willing to give money to the other participant when their choice set also includes the option to take money. We examine whether this effect is due to the ...

    • Global income inequality and cost-of-living adjustment : the Geary–Allen world accounts 

      Almås, Ingvild; Sørensen, Erik Ø. (Discussion paper;20/2012, Working paper, 2012-10)
      Standard ways of measuring real income are known to be inconsistent with consumer preferences. We provide preference-consistent estimates of real income, based on the income-specific price indices that are consistent ...

    • Global public economics : public goods and externalities 

      Sandmo, Agnar (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2006-10)
      This paper extends the normative analysis of public goods and externalities to an international setting. The first part considers the optimal allocation of a global public good. Whether global production efficiency is ...

    • Global uro og norsk idyll: Makroøkonomiske lærdommer og utfordringer etter finanskrisen 

      Doppelhofer, Gernot Peter; Thøgersen, Øystein (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)
      Artikkelen diskuterer hvordan finanskrisen som startet i 2007, påvirket verdensøkonomien generelt og Norge spesielt. En utfordring for innhenting etter krisen er høy offentlig og privat gjeld i mange land, noe som er et ...

    • Globalisation and maritime labour in Norway after World War II 

      Tenold, Stig (Discussion paper;17/2014, Working paper, 2014-05)
      This paper looks at how "Globalisation" – narrowly defined as the causes and effects of increased international economic integration – has influenced the demand for and supply of maritime products and services, with a ...

    • Globalisation and the mix of wage and profit taxes 

      Haufler, Andreas; Klemm, Alexander; Schjelderup, Guttorm (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2006-02)
      This paper analyses the development of the ratio of corporate taxes to wage taxes using a simple political economy model with internationally mobile and immobile firms. Among other results, our model predicts that countries ...