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    • Paying Respect 

      Ellingsen, Tore; Johannesson, Magnus (Journal article, 2007)
    • Priceless: The nonpecuniary benefits of schooling 

      Salvanes, Kjell Gunnar; Oreopoulos, Philip (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011)
      Increasing wealth provides key motivation for students to forgo earnings and struggle through exams. But, as we argue in this paper, schooling generates many experiences and affects many dimensions of skill that, in turn, ...
    • Progress in the R ecosystem for representing and handling spatial data 

      Bivand, Roger S. (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 ...
    • Public finances, governance control and economic growth: a macroeconomic history approach 

      Grytten, Ola Honningdal (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      The size of the public sector is an important tool in public governance. Public sector size may fuel both economic growth and political influence over the economy. By compiling and processing data from different sources ...
    • Public governance versus corporate governance: Evidence from oil drilling in forests 

      Cust, James; Harding, Torfinn; Krings, Hanna; Rivera-Ballesteros, Alexis (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
    • Public R&D support and firm performance: A multivariate dose-response analysis 

      Nilsen, Øivind Anti; Raknerud, Arvid; Iancu, Diana-Christina (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
    • Rags and Riches: Relative Prices, Non-Homothetic Preferences, and Inequality in India 

      Almås, Ingvild; Kjelsrud, Anders Grøn (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017)
      It is well known that consumption patterns change with income. Relative price changes would therefore affect rich and poor consumers differently. Yet, the standard price indices are not income-specific, and hence, they ...
    • Reducing Early Pregnancy in Low-Income Countries : a literature review and new evidence 

      Berge, Lars Ivar Oppedal; Bjorvatn, Kjetil; Maalim, Amina Mohamed; Somville, Vincent; Tungodden, Bertil (Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2018)
    • Rejecting Non-Paternalist Motivation: An Experimental Test 

      Chen, Xianwen; Schøyen, Øivind (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
    • Relative purchasing power parity and the European monetary union: Evidence from eastern Europe 

      Findreng, Jon Håkon (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 ...
    • Responsibility for what? Fairness and individual responsibility 

      Cappelen, Alexander Wright; Sørensen, Erik Øiolf; Tungodden, Bertil (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2010)
      What should individuals be held responsible for? This is a fundamental question in much of the contemporary debate on distributive justice. Different fairness ideals, such as strict egalitarianism, and different versions ...
    • Rettferdig ulikhet 

      Almås, Ingvild; Cappelen, Alexander Wright; Haaland, Ingar Kyrkjebø; Tungodden, Bertil (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)
      Hvilke ulikheter oppfattes som rettferdige? Vi presenterer resultatet fra en surveyundersøkelse med et nasjonalt representativt utvalg av den norske befolkningen. Hovedfunnet er at nordmenn synes ulikheter kan være både ...
    • Rettferdighet på hjernen 

      Cappelen, Alexander Wright; Sørensen, Erik Øiolf; Tungodden, Bertil (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)
      Hjernen har lenge vært en sort boks for økonomer, men i økende grad har økonomer begynt å studere hvilke mentale prosesser som ligger bak folks valg. Ikke minst forsøker man å forstå hvorfor folk noen ganger velger å gjøre ...
    • Revisiting 'mothers and sons' preference formation and the female labor force in Switzerland 

      Bütikofer, Aline (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013-01)
      This paper analyzes the interrelation between men's gender role attitudes and female labor supply decision. Following Fernández, Fogli, and Olivetti (2004), I argue that the recent increases in the female labor market ...
    • Revisiting the Boston data set. Changing the units of observation affects estimated willingness to pay for clean air 

      Bivand, Roger (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      Harrison, Rubinfeld (1978c) used a hedonic model to find out how house values were affected by air pollution in Boston, when other variables were taken into consideration. Their primary interest was in estimating willingness ...
    • Risk Taking and Fiscal Smoothing with Sovereign Wealth Funds in Advanced Economies 

      Mork, Knut A.; Lindset, Snorre (Journal article, 2019)
      In an economy with a sovereign wealth fund (SWF), the government may draw on the fund to supplement other government revenues. If the fund is invested in risky assets, this introduces a new stochastic element into the ...
    • Sequential exporting 

      Albornoz, Facundo; Calvo Pardo, Héctor F.; Corcos, Gregory (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012)
      Many new exporters give up exporting very shortly, despite substantial entry costs; others shoot up foreign sales and expand to new destinations. We develop a model based on experimentation to rationalize these and other ...
    • Sharing and cooperation in an experiment with heterogeneous groups 

      Bjorvatn, Kjetil; Coniglio, Nicola D. (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”). ...
    • Sharing the Northeast Atlantic mackerel 

      Hannesson, Røgnvaldur (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2013)
      The sharing of the Northeast Atlantic mackerel (Scomber scombrus) stock is analysed as a game between four parties: the European Union, Norway, the Faroe Islands, and Iceland. Consideration is given to how the outcome ...
    • Single-product versus uniform SSNIPs 

      Sørgard, Lars; Daljord, Øystein (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011)
      It is common to apply a SSNIP test with a uniform price increase on all products in the candidate market. We show that in situations with asymmetries – for example variations in revenues – a uniform SSNIP test may suggest ...