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 ...

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 ...

This paper studies the impact of speed limits on local air pollution using a series of date-specific speed limit reductions in Oslo over the 2004–2011 period. We find that lowering the speed limit from 80 to 60 km/h reduces ...

Bekymringer om opptakskravene til lærerstudiet er et tilbakevendende tema i offentlig debatt, og myndighetene har også forsøkt ulike tiltak for å bedre rekrutteringen. Det er derfor interessant å studere de lange linjene ...

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 ...

I denne artikkelen drøftes det hvordan en kan utforme en bøtepolitikk som bidrar til å bekjempe priskarteller. Det forklares hvordan bøter og lempningsordning (amnesti) kan utformes slik at en enten gjør dannelse av karteller ...

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 ...

I denne artikkelen presenterer vi innsikter fra nyere forskning innen adferdsøkonomi og eksperimentelle økonomi som har dokumentert at forholdet mellom økonomiske insentiver og innsats er mer komplekst enn det økonomisk ...

Purchasing power-adjusted incomes applied in cross-country comparisons are measured with bias. This paper estimates the purchasing power parity (PPP) bias in Penn World Table incomes and provides corrected incomes. The ...