Articles (SAM)
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Household Bargaining and Spending on Children: Experimental Evidence from Tanzania
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)This paper studies whether an increase in women’s intrahousehold bargaining power causes couples to allocate more resources to their child’s education, and, if so, what the underlying mechanisms for this might be. We ... -
JEEA-FBBVA LECTURE 2019: Consumption Insurance in Networks with Asymmetric Information: Evidence from Tanzania
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)This paper uses a dataset from Tanzania with information on consumption, income, and income shocks within and across family networks. Crucially and uniquely, it also contains data on the degree of information existing ... -
Progress in the R ecosystem for representing and handling spatial data
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Twenty years have passed since Bivand and Gebhardt (J Geogr Syst 2(3):307–317, 2000. https://doi.org/10.1007/PL00011460) indicated that there was a good match between the then nascent open-source R programming language ... -
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 ... -
From Quantity to Quality: Delivering a Home-based Parenting Intervention through China’s Family Planning Cadres
(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 ... -
All the bottles in one basket? Evaluating the effect of intra-industry diversification on risk
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)This paper develops a framework using Monte Carlo simulation to examine risk/return properties of intra-industry product portfolio composition and diversification. We use product-level data covering all Swedish sales of ... -
Teaching through television: Experimental evidence on entrepreneurship education in Tanzania
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Can television be used to teach and foster entrepreneurship among youth in developing countries? We report from a randomized control field experiment of an edutainment show on entrepreneurship broadcasted over almost three ... -
Pay-for-performance reduces bypassing of health facilities: evidence from Tanzania
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Many patients and expectant mothers in low-income countries bypass local health facilities in search of betterquality services. This study examines the impact of a payment-for-performance (P4P) scheme on bypassing practices ... -
Sharing and cooperation in an experiment with heterogeneous groups
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)We investigate the impact of inequality on sharing and cooperation using a dictator game and a linear public good game where some participants work for their endowment (“workers”) while others do not (“non-workers”). ... -
Matched trade at the firm level and the micro origins of international business-cycle comovement
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)This article uses firm × national market export and import data for all Swedish private sector firms for 1997–2014 to examine the firm-level contribution of trade and foreign ownership to the correlation between Swedish ... -
Institutions and the location of oil exploration
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Maritime Financial Instability and Supply Chain Management Effects
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)The paper investigates the offshore crisis 2015–2017 and its impact on central international offshore oil and gas related maritime cluster, the Blue Maritime Cluster, located at the North-Western coast of Norway. This ... -
You’ve Got Mail: A Randomized Field Experiment on Tax Evasion
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)We report from a large-scale randomized field experiment conducted on a unique sample of more than 15,000 taxpayers in Norway who were likely to have misreported their foreign income. By randomly manipulating a letter ... -
Tax-free digital news?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)News platforms are struggling. Their printed readership is predominantly old, and their digital product struggles to win the attention of the young. For several decades tax reductions have been used in Europe to increase ... -
Incarceration, Recidivism, and Employment
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Using a random judge design and panel data from Norway, we estimate that imprisonment discourages further criminal behavior, with re-offense probabilities falling by 29 percentage points and criminal charges dropping by ... -
Financial instability, institutional development and economic crisis in Eastern Europe
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Evidence that prenatal testosterone transfer from male twins reduces the fertility and socioeconomic success of their female co-twins
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Ethnically Biased? Experimental Evidence from Kenya
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Bør den indirekte pressestøtten gis som momsfritak eller skattefradrag? :
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)Papiraviser er fritatt for moms. Dette representerer en indirekte subsidie i størrelsesorden 1,5 milliarder kroner per år. Skattefradrag for redaksjonelle kostnader har vært foreslått som et supplerende virkemiddel i en ... -
Relative purchasing power parity and the European monetary union: Evidence from eastern Europe
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)This paper examine whether relative purchasing power parity holds for Albania, Bulgaria, Croatia, FYR Macedonia, Romania and Turkey versus Germany over the period January 1999 to May 2013. We investigate the real ...
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