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Smartphone Bans, Student Outcomes and Mental Health
(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 ... -
Social origins of a work ethic : norms, mobility and urban unemployment
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2002-03)Neighbourhood effects and worker mobility have been proposed as explanations for the pattern of employment in cities. This paper presents a the oretical framework within which the joint impact of these two factors can ... -
Social security and future generations
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2007-12)We survey the effects of social security in the form of mandatory public pension programs on the intergenerational distribution of tax burdens, income, various risks and welfare. The first part considers basic theoretical ... -
Social security reforms and early retirement
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2000-09)In order to stimulate labor market participation and improve the financial viability of the social security systems, many recent reform proposals in various OECD economies suggest to scale down the non-actuarial parts ... -
Socioeconomic Status and Physicians’ Treatment Decisions
(Discussion paper;12/15, Working paper, 2015-06)This paper aims at shedding light on the social gradient by studying the relationship between socioeconomic status (SES) and provision of health care. Using administrative data on services provided by General Practitioners ... -
Software for Spatial Statistics
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)We give an overview of the papers published in this special issue on spatial statistics, of the Journal of Statistical Software. 21 papers address issues covering visualization (micromaps, links to Google Maps or Google ... -
Solidarity and Fairness in Times of Crisis
(DP SAM;06/2020, Working paper, 2020-05-14)In a large-scale pre-registered survey experiment with a representative sample of more than 8,000 Americans, we examine how the COVID-19 pandemic causally affects people’s solidarity and fairness. We randomly manipulate ... -
Some implications and tests of the permanent-income hypothesis and rational consumer behaviour
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Some reflections on the role of moral reasoning in economics
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2003-11)People seem to be motivated by moral ideas and in this paper I discuss how we should take this into account in positive and normative economics. I review alternative ways of modelling moral motivation and reasoning in ... -
Some reflections on the role of moral reasoning in economics
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2003)People seem to be motivated by moral ideas and in this paper I discuss how we should take this into account in positive and normative economics. I review alternative ways of modelling moral motivation and reasoning in ... -
Sources of earnings dispersion in a linked employer-employee dataset : evidence from Norway
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 1998-09)We estimate a standard human capital earnings model, augmented to allow for different firmspecific wage premia. The earnings of an individual depend on her human capital bundle and the earnings mark-up of the firm she ... -
Sources of measurement errors in earnings data : new estimates of intergenerational elasticities
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2008-04)Using Norwegian intergenerational data with a substantial part of the life-cycle earnings of children and almost the entire life-cycle earnings for their fathers, we present new estimates of intergenerational mobility. ... -
Spatial Data Analysis with R-INLA with Some Extensions
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015-01)The integrated nested Laplace approximation (INLA) provides an interesting way of approximating the posterior marginals of a wide range of Bayesian hierarchical models. This approximation is based on conducting a Laplace ... -
Spatial diffusion and spatial statistics: revisting Hägerstrand’s study of innovation diffusion.
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)Torsten Hägerstrand’s 1953 study of innovation diffusion [1] was pathbreaking in many ways. It was based on an explicit micro-model of information spread, and on Monte Carlo simulation of the hypothesised spatial process. ... -
Spatial management of a fishery under parameter uncertainty
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2008-06)Spatial management of a fishery under parameter uncertainty is analyzed. The habitat is divided into two areas, and the effort level in the two areas may be different. The migration of biomass between the areas follows a ... -
Spillovers from household production to wage and profit formation
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Spillovers from US monetary policy: evidence from a time varying parameter global vector auto-regressive model
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)The paper develops a global vector auto-regressive model with time varying parameters and stochastic volatility to analyse whether international spillovers of US monetary policy have changed over time. The model proposed ... -
Spillovers from US monetary policy: Evidence from a time-varying parameter GVAR model
(DP SAM;31/2018, Working paper, 2018-12-21)This paper develops a global vector autoregressive (GVAR) model with time-varying parameters and stochastic volatility to analyze whether international spillovers of US monetary policy have changed over time. The proposed ... -
Sticks and carrots for the alleviation of long-term poverty
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2001-12)Work requirements can make it easier to screen the poor from the nonpoor. They can also affect future poverty by changing the poors’ incentive to invest in their income capacity. The novelty of our study is the focus ...