Blar i Department of Economics på emneord "Samfunnsvitenskap"
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A continuous consumer price index for Norway 1492-2017
(DP SAM;26/2018, Working paper, 2018-11)This manuscript presents a new combined annual cost of living and consumer price index for Norway covering the period 1492-2017. When previous Norwegian historical consumer price indices partly were constructed on the basis ... -
A Meritocratic Origin of Egalitarian Behavior
(DP SAM;09/2019, Working paper, 2019-04-29)The meritocratic fairness ideal implies that inequalities in earnings are regarded as fair only when they reflect differences in performance. Consequently, implementation of the meritocratic fairness ideal requires complete ... -
Adverse selection into competition: Evidence from a large-scale field experiment in Tanzania
(DP SAM;19/2020, Working paper, 2020-09)An influential literature has shown that women are less willing to compete than men, and the gender gap in competition may contribute to explaining gender differences in educational choices and labor market outcomes. This ... -
Asymmetric cost transmission and market power in retail gasoline markets
(DP SAM;08/2024, Working paper, 2024-05-30)Estimating non-linear autoregressive distributed lag models, we establish shortrun cost pass-through in the Swedish retail gasoline market. Our findings reveal a slower correction of disequilibrium error in volume-adjusted ... -
Beliefs About Racial Discrimination and Support for Pro-Black Policies
(DP SAM;02/2019, Working paper, 2019-02-05)We examine whether beliefs about racial discrimination causally affect support for pro-black policies. Using representative samples of Americans, we elicit quantitative and incentivized beliefs about the extent of labor ... -
Building Bridges and Widening Gaps: Efficiency Gains and Equity Concerns of Labor Market Expansions
(DP SAM;19/2019, Working paper, 2019-10-20)We exploit the opening of a large bridge to study how access to a larger labor market affects economic efficiency, and how these potential efficiency gains are distributed across workers. The bridge we study connected the ... -
Can Female Doctors Cure the Gender STEMM Gap? Evidence from Randomly Assigned General Practitioners
(DP SAM;18/2019, Working paper, 2019-10)We use random assignment of general practitioners (GPs) to provide the first evidence on the effects of female role models in childhood on the long-run educational outcomes of girls. We find that girls who are exposed to ... -
Choosing Between Causal Interpretations: An Experimental Study
(DP SAM;07/2024, Working paper, 2024-05-23)Good decision-making requires understanding the causal impact of our actions. Often, we only have access to correlational data that could stem from multiple causal mechanisms with divergent implications for choice. Our ... -
Claudia Goldin: Nobel Laureate 2023 and Her Impact on Understanding Women’s Position in the Labour Market
(DP SAM;19/2024, Working paper, 2024-12)On 9 October 2023, Claudia Goldin was announced as winner of the 2023 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. It can certainly be said that many had long awaited the recognition of her ... -
Competition and Career Advancement: The Hidden Costs of Paid Leave
(DP SAM;13/2020, Working paper, 2020)Does leave-taking matter for young workers’ careers? If so, why? We propose the competition effect—relative leave status of workers affecting their relative standing inside the firm—as a new explanation. Exploiting a policy ... -
Competition and Price Discrimination in International Transportation
(DP SAM;06/2024, Working paper, 2024-05)This paper documents price discrimination by transport companies, revealing their market power. Larger shipments of similar products sharing a container receive lower prices. A trade model with non-linear pricing of ... -
Competition matters: uniform vs. indication-based pricing of pharmaceuticals
(DP SAM;01/2025, Working paper, 2025-01)Pharmaceutical expenditures are rising rapidly, driven in part by the innovation of highly effective but very expensive drug therapies that treat multiple diseases. While these drugs offer substantial health benefits, ... -
Competitiveness, gender and handedness: a large-sample intercultural study
(DP SAM;02/2020, Working paper, 2020-01)We conduct a large-scale intercultural experiment to elicit competitiveness and ask whether individual and gender differences in competitiveness are partially determined by nature. We use being a “lefty” (i.e., having ... -
Convergence between the Baltic and the Nordic economies: Some reflections based on new data for the Baltic countries
(DP SAM;05/2024, Working paper, 2024-04-18)This short paper uses recent estimates of GDP per capita for the Baltic countries for the 1919-2020(22) period to test for convergence between the Baltic and the Nordic economies. Drawing from the methodology used in Bernard ... -
Creating pro-environmental behavior change: Economic incentives or norm-nudges?
(DP SAM;15/2024, Working paper, 2024-09)To mitigate global warming, collective behavior change is needed. But which tools should policymakers prioritize: economic incentives, nudges, or a combination? Current evidence from social science provides little direct ... -
Cross-border shopping of alcohol – What is the effect on tax revenue and sales and which products are most affected?
(DP SAM;12/2024, Working paper, 2024-07-04)We use COVID-19 border closings and comprehensive store-level data on Norwegian alcohol sales to quantify the effect cross-border shopping of alcohol on sales volume and commodity tax revenue. Effects are large, for instance ... -
Cutthroat capitalism versus cuddly socialism: Are Americans more meritocratic and efficiency-seeking than Scandinavians?
(DP SAM;04/2019, Working paper, 2019-02)There are striking differences in inequality and redistribution between the United States and Scandinavia. To study whether there are corresponding differences in social preferences, we conducted a large-scale international ... -
Do Generous Parental Leave Policies Help Top Female Earners?
(DP SAM;07/2020, Working paper, 2020-05)Generous government-mandated parental leave is generally viewed as an effective policy to support women’s careers around childbirth. But does it help women to reach top positions in the upper pay echelon of their firms? ... -
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 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 ...