Discussion papers (SAM)
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What Makes Hiring Difficult? Evidence from Linked Survey-Administrative Data
(DP SAM;20/2023, Working paper, 2023-12)We designed an innovative survey of firms and linked it to Danish administrative data to yield new insights about the factors that can influence firms’ hiring decisions. Several important findings stand out: (1) search and ... -
Taking the competitor’s pill: when combination therapies enter pharmaceutical markets
(DP SAM;19/2023, Working paper, 2023-11-22)We study the competitive effects of combination therapies in pharmaceutical markets, which crucially hinge on the additional therapeutic value of combinatory use of drugs and the therapeutic substitutability with the most ... -
Why do committees work?
(DP SAM;18/2023, Working paper, 2023-11-21)We report on the results of an experiment designed to disentangle behavioral biases in information aggregation of committees. Subjects get private signals about the state of world, send binary messages, and finally vote ... -
The Consequences of Inequality: Beliefs and Redistributive Preferences
(DP SAM;17/2023, Working paper, 2023-10)What matters for individuals’ preferences for redistribution? In this paper we show that consequentialist beliefs about inequality – beliefs about how economic inequality changes the crime rate or the quality of democratic ... -
Gender-biased technological change: Milking machines and the exodus of women from farming
(Working paper, 2023-08-14)This paper studies the link between gender-biased technological change in the agricultural sector and structural transformation in Norway. After WWII, Norwegian farms began widely adopting milking machines to replace the ... -
Natural Resources, Demand for Skills, and Schooling Choices
(SAM DP;15/2023, Working paper, 2023-06-30)This paper studies the consequences of the buildup of a new economic sector—the Norwegian petroleum industry—on investment in human capital. We assess both short-term and long-term effects for a broad set of educational ... -
(Breaking) intergenerational transmission of mental health
(SAM DP;14/2023, Working paper, 2023-06-30)We estimate health associations across generations and dynasties using information on healthcare visits from administrative data for the entire Norwegian population. A parental mental health diagnosis is associated with a ... -
Experimental Evidence on the Acceptance of Males Falling Behind
(SAM DP;13/2023, Working paper, 2023)In recent decades, an increasing share of males struggle in the labor market and education. We show in a set of large-scale experimental studies involving more than 30,000 Americans that people are more accepting of males ... -
The Career Effects of Union Membership
(SAM DP;12/2023, Working paper, 2023-05)We combine exogenous variation in union membership with detailed administrative data and a novel field survey to estimate the career effects of labor union membership. In the survey, we show how workers perceive the role ... -
Parenthood and the Gender Gap in Commuting
(SAM DP;11/2023, Working paper, 2023-05)Childbirth increases the opportunity cost of commuting and makes it difficult for both parents to work far away from home. Using detailed Norwegian register data, we show that the commuting patterns of men and women diverge ... -
Free to Fail? Paternalistic Preferences in the United States
(SAM DP;09/2023, Working paper, 2023-05-16)We study paternalistic preferences in two large-scale experiments with participants from the general population in the United States. Spectators decide whether to intervene to prevent a stakeholder, who is mistaken about ... -
Competition and risk taking in local bank markets: evidence from the business loans segment
(SAM DP;10/2023, Working paper, 2023-05-18)This paper studies empirically the relationship between competition and risk taking in banking markets. We exploit an unique dataset providing information about all bank loans to Norwegian firms over several years. Rather ... -
Underrepresentation, Quotas and Quality: A dynamic argument for reform
(SAM DP;08/2023, Working paper, 2023-05)The trade-off between increased representation and perceived quality is central to the debate on how to address underrepresentation in high-profile professions. We address this trade-off using a dynamic model of career ... -
Swallow this: Childhood and Adolescent Exposure to Fast Food Restaurants, BMI, and Cognitive Ability
(SAM DP;07/2023, Working paper, 2023-05-06)Using spatial and temporal variation in openings of fast food restaurants in Norway between 1980 and 2007, we study the effects of changes in the supply of high caloric nutrition on the health and cognitive ability of young ... -
Cancel the deal? An experimental study on the exploitation of irrational consumers
(SAM DP;06/2023, Working paper, 2023-04-06)Consumers can sometimes be exploited because they make mistakes in their valuation of products. We present the results from a large-scale experimental study that examines whether third-party spectators from the general ... -
How Are Gender Norms Perceived?
(SAM DP;05/2023, Working paper, 2023-03-22)Actual and perceived gender norms are key to understanding gender inequality. Using newly-collected, nationally representative datasets from 60 countries covering 80% of the world population, this paper studies gender norms ... -
The Price of Cost-effectiveness Thresholds
(SAM DP;04/2023, Working paper, 2023)Health systems around world are increasingly adopting cost-effectiveness (CE) analysis to inform decisions about access and reimbursement. We study how CE thresholds imposed by a health plan for granting reimbursement ... -
Fairness Across the World
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Offshore Industries as Growth Sector: The Norwegian Case
(SAM DP;02/2023, Working paper, 2023-03)Writers on Norwegian economic history often claim that marine and maritime industries, i.e., the offshore sector, played a major role for value creation in the Norwegian economy for centuries. However, little has been done ... -
The Demand for News: Accuracy Concerns versus Belief Confirmation Motives
(SAM DP;01/2023, Working paper, 2023-01-12)We examine the relative importance of accuracy concerns and belief confirmation motives in driving the demand for news. In experiments with US respondents, we first vary beliefs about whether an outlet reports the news in ...
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