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Do non-enforceable contracts matter? Evidence from an international lab experiment
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)Many verifiable contracts are impossible or difficult to enforce. This applies to contracts among family and friends, contracts regulating market transactions, and sovereign debt contracts. Do such non-enforceable contracts ... -
Does grief transfer across generations? Bereavements during pregnancy and child outcomes
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)Using population data from Norway, we examine the effects of stress induced by the death of the mother’s parent during pregnancy on both the short-run and the long-run outcomes of the infant. Using a variety of empirical ... -
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 ... -
Education and mobility
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012)We show that the length of compulsory education has a causal impact on regional labour mobility. The analysis is based on a quasi-exogenous staged Norwegian school reform, and register data on the whole ... -
Effectiveness of a girls’ empowerment programme on early childbearing, marriage and school dropout among adolescent girls in rural Zambia: study protocol for a cluster randomized trial
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)Background: Adolescent pregnancies pose a risk to the young mothers and their babies. In Zambia, 35% of young girls in rural areas have given birth by the age of 18 years. Pregnancy rates are particularly high among ... -
Environmental Restoration in Hydropower Development — Lessons from Norway
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018)Hydropower is expanding globally and is regarded a keymeasure formitigating climate change, but it also results inmajor environmental degradation, both at local scale andmore widely. We can learn lessons about how restoration ... -
Et valg i blinde?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012)15/16-åringer i Norge gjør et valg som har store konsekvenser for deres inntekt i arbeidsmarkedet: De velger om de skal ta yrkesfaglig eller allmennfaglig retning på videregående skole. Disse valgene vil igjen kunne legge ... -
Ethics, resource rent, environment and petroleum policy: the case of a small open economy
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Ethnically Biased? Experimental Evidence from Kenya
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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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Experimental Research on Retirement Decision-Making: Evidence from Replications
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Explaining the gender wage gap: Estimates from a dynamic model of job changes and hours changes.
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)I address the causes of the gender wage gap with a new dynamic model of wage, hours, and job changes that permits me to decompose the gap into a portion due to gender differences in preferences for hours of work and in ... -
Fairness and the Development of Inequality Acceptance
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2010)Fairness considerations fundamentally affect human behavior, but our understanding of the nature and development of people’s fairness preferences is limited. The dictator game has been the standard experimental design for ... -
Financial instability, institutional development and economic crisis in Eastern Europe
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Finanskriser - hva vet vi?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012)Da finanskrisen herjet som verst – krisen som startet i det amerikanske subprime-markedet på midten av 2000-tallet og etter hvert rammet mange økonomier – henvendte dronningen av England seg til en gruppe Økonomer med ... -
Fra kinesernes sparing til global vekst
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012)Kina har i senere år fremstått som verdensøkonomiens primære vekstmotor. Vekstens innhold i form av store handelsoverskudd og svært høye investeringer har skapt vinnere og tapere blant verdens øvrige land og regioner. ... -
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 ... -
Fusjon i tosidige markeder
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)Hvis en bedrift betjener to distinkt forskjellige kundegrupper som påvirker hverandres etterspørsel, vil den typisk operere i et tosidig marked. Eksempelvis betjener en avis både lesere og annonsører. Empiriske undersøkelser ... -
Generational links between entrepreneurship, management and puritanism
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)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 ... -
Global uro og norsk idyll: Makroøkonomiske lærdommer og utfordringer etter finanskrisen
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)Artikkelen diskuterer hvordan finanskrisen som startet i 2007, påvirket verdensøkonomien generelt og Norge spesielt. En utfordring for innhenting etter krisen er høy offentlig og privat gjeld i mange land, noe som er et ...