Browsing Discussion papers (SAM) by Subject "Samfunnsvitenskap"
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Exclusionary contracts and incentives to innovate
(DP SAM;05/2020, Working paper, 2020-06)The article considers a situation where several firms have the opportunity to sell an identical product to a set of buyers, and where each seller can invest in R&D to develop a higher quality version of the product in ... -
Expansions in Paid Parental Leave and Mothers’ Economic Progress
(SAM DP;13/2022, Working paper, 2022-10)We examine the impact of government-funded universal paid parental leave extensions on the likelihood that mothers reach top-pay jobs and executive positions, using eight Norwegian reforms. Up to a quarter of a century ... -
Fairness and Willingness to Compete
(DP SAM;08/2021, Working paper, 2021-03)The large experimental literature on competitiveness has typically ignored a key feature of many competitive settings in society: competition is not always fair. The playing field may be uneven and competitors of unequal ... -
Fairness Beliefs Affect Perceived Economic Inequality
(DP SAM;22/2023, Working paper, 2023-12)This paper establishes a causal link from fairness beliefs to perceived economic inequality. I conduct an experiment where participants are asked to estimate various income inequality measures of hypothetical societies. ... -
From Employment to Engagement? Stable Jobs, Temporary Jobs, and Cohabiting Relationships
(DP SAM;10/2019, Working paper, 2019-04)Family formation has been substantially delayed in recent decades, and birth rates have fallen below the replacement rates in many OECD countries. Research suggests that these trends are tightly linked to recent changes ... -
Going Fast or Going Green? Evidence from Environmental Speed Limits in Norway
(DP SAM;17/2019, Working paper, 2019-10-03)This paper studies the impact of speed limits on local air pollution using a series of datespecific speed limit reductions in Oslo over the 2004-2011 period. We find that lowering the speed limit from 80 to 60 km/h reduces ... -
Having a Daughter Reduces Male Violence Against a Partner
(DP SAM;24/2019, Working paper, 2019-12-28)In a global sample of around 310,000 couples, men whose firstborn child is a girl (instead of a boy) are 10 percent less likely to strangle their partner each year. The probability that they kick, punch, or slap her also ... -
Hospital Competition in the National Health Service: Evidence from a Patient Choice Reform
(DP SAM;28/2018, Working paper, 2018-12)We study the impact of exposing hospitals in a National Health Service (NHS) to non-price competition by exploiting a patient choice reform in Norway in 2001. The reform facilitates a difference-in-difference research ... -
How Do Firms Respond to Unions?
(DP SAM;25/2023, Working paper, 2023-12-22)This paper provides a comprehensive assessment of the margins along which firms in Norway respond to increased union density, using legislative changes in the tax deductibility of union dues as a quasi-exogenous shock to ... -
How Do People Trade Off Resources Between Quick and Slow Learners?
(DP SAM;05/2021, Working paper, 2021-02)How society invests in human capital is important for economic growth and social welfare. The paper reports from the first experiment designed to elicit people’s preferences for how to prioritize educational resources, ... -
Hump-shaped cross-price effects and the extensive margin in cross-border shopping
(DP SAM;20/2019, Working paper, 2019-09-23)This paper examines the effect of cross-border shopping on grocery demand in Norway using monthly store×category sales data from Norway’s largest grocery chain 2011-2016. The sensitivity of demand to foreign price is ... -
Hump-shaped cross-price effects and the extensive margin in cross-border shopping
(DP SAM;29/2018, Working paper, 2018-12-21)This paper examines the effect of cross-border shopping on grocery demand in Norway using monthly storexcategory sales data from Norway’s largest grocery chain 2011-2016. The sensitivity of demand to foreign price is ... -
If You Could Read My Mind—An Experimental Beauty-Contest Game with Children
(DP SAM;23/2019, Working paper, 2021-03)We develop a new design for the experimental beauty-contest game (BCG) that is suitable for children in school age and test it with 114 schoolchildren aged 9–11 years. In addition, we collect measures on cognitive skills ... -
The impact of targeting technologies and consumer multi-homing on digital platform competition
(SAM DP;13/2021, Working paper, 2021-06)In this paper, we address how targeting and consumer multi-homing impact platform competition and market equilibria in two-sided markets. We analyze platforms that are financed by both advertising and subscription fees, ... -
The Impact of Working Memory Training on Children’s Cognitive and Noncognitive Skills
(DP SAM;09/2020, Working paper, 2020-06-08)Working memory capacity is thought to play an important role for a wide range of cognitive and noncognitive skills such as fluid intelligence, math, reading, the inhibition of pre-potent impulses or more general self-regulation ... -
Income Inequality and Mortality: A Norwegian Perspective
(DP SAM;04/2021, Working paper, 2021-01)While Norway has experienced income growth accompanied by a large decline in mortality during the past several decades, little is known about the distribution of these improvements in longevity across the income distribution. ... -
Informed Enforcement: Lessons from Pollution Monitoring in China
(DP SAM;01/2021, Working paper, 2021-01-07)Government regulations are often imperfectly enforced by public officials. In this study, we investigate if real-time monitoring of policy outcomes can improve enforcement of existing regulations by exploring the introduction ... -
Innocuous Exam Features? The Impact of Answer Placement on High-Stakes Test Performance and College Admissions
(DP SAM;04/2024, Working paper, 2024-04-14)We exploit randomness in college entrance exams in Colombia to study how the placement of answers impacts multiple-choice test results and access to college. Using administrative data, we find that: first, applicants are ... -
Interactions in Public Policies: Spousal Responses and Program Spillovers of Welfare Reforms
(DP SAM;20/2020, Working paper, 2020-09)Anticipating the labor market effects of welfare reforms is difficult due to public policy interactions across programs and among household members. Specifically, changes to one program may affect individual take-up of ... -
Job Displacement, Unemployment, and Crime: Evidence from Danish Microdata and Reforms
(DP SAM;32/2018, Working paper, 2018-12)This paper estimates the individual impact of a worker’s job loss on his/her criminal activity. Using a matched employer-employee longitudinal data set on unemployment, crime, and taxes for all residents in Denmark, the ...