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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. ... -
Income risk aversion with quantity constraints
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2010-02)In this paper, I consider a consumer with a concave utility function over n commodities and trace out the consequences of quantity constraints on product markets for the consumer's aversion towards income risk. I show ... -
Income tax, consumption value of education, and the choice of educational type
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2003-06)How the tax system might affect the individual’s educational level is well studied. But the question of how the tax system affects the individual’s choice of educational type is mostly ignored. This is an important issue, ... -
The indexing impasse : is "the intersection approach" a solution?
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 1998-11)Rawls (1971,1993) suggests that interpersonal comparisons of well-being should be based on a primary goods index, but it is well-known that in general this approach is not compatible with the Pareto principle. This is ... -
Individual vessel quotas and unregulated species : the Norwegian blue whiting fishery
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2007-01)This survey of the Norwegian purse seine fleet licensed to fish blue whiting focuses on the relationship between restricted fisheries, such as spring-spawning herring, North Sea herring, mackerel, and capelin, and ... -
Inducement prizes and innovation
(Discussion Papers;25/2011, Working paper, 2011-12)We examine the effect of prizes on innovation using data on awards for technological development offered by the Royal Agricultural Society of England at annual competitions between 1839 and 1939. We find large effects ... -
Industrial agglomeration and capital taxation
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 1998-07)Models with imperfect competition and intra-industry trade have become widely accepted as appropriate frameworks within which to analyze the impact of trade liberalization on industrial agglomeration. This paper makes ... -
Industrial clusters : equilibrium, welfare, and policy
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2001-08)This paper studies the size and number of industrial clusters that will arise in a multi-country world in which one sector has a propensity to cluster because of increasing returns to scale. It compares the equilibrium ... -
Industrial clusters, asymmetric information and policy design
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2002-12)Recently there has been some attention on the issue of industrial clusters and industrial policy claiming that there are arguments in favour of subsidising special industries in order to stimulate industrial agglomeration. ... -
Inequality and redistribution : the need for new perspectives
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2005-02)Recent years have seen a marked increase in inequality in the OECD area, and since the early 1990s the trend has been unmistakable in Norway also. This paper offers a brief review of the main causes behind this development, ... -
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 ... -
Infrastructure and industrial location : a dual technology approach
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2001-10)The paper investigates how differences in infrastructure quality may affect industrial location between countries. Employing a dualtechnology model, the main result of the paper is the somewhat surprising conclusion ... -
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 ... -
Insurance against Income Shocks, Parental Investments, and Child Development
(DP SAM;10/2024, Working paper, 2024-06-11)Faced with income shocks, households may be unable to smooth their consumption, because of limited insurance possibilities. Likewise, it may also be difficult to smooth investments in children. This could have large ... -
Integration and transition : scenarios for location of production and trade in Europe
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 1999-05)Applying a newly developed CGE-model, we present scenarios for the future economic geography of Europe. The model divides the world into ten regions, of which five are European, and there are 14 industries, of which 12 ... -
Integration in the English wheat market 1770-1820
(Discussion paper;12/2013, Working paper, 2013-06)Cointegration analysis has been used widely to quantify market integration through price arbitrage. We show that total price variability can be decomposed into: (i) magnitude of price shocks; (ii) correlation of price ... -
Inter-firm price coordination in a two-sided market
(Discussion paper;16/2014, Working paper, 2014-05)In many two-sided markets we observe that there is a common distributor on one side of the market. One example is the TV industry, where TV channels choose advertising prices to maximize own profit and typically ... -
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 ... -
Intergenerational mobility : trends across the earnings distribution
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2005-02)The analysis, based on register data for Norwegian cohorts born 1950, 1955, and 1960, shows that the intergenerational earnings mobility is high. Using quantile regression, mobility is found to be lower at the lower end ... -
Intergenerational Mobility and the Timing of Parental Income
(Discussion paper;23/15, Working paper, 2015-10)We extend the standard intergenerational mobility literature by modelling individual outcomes as a function of the whole history of parental income, using data from Norway. We find that, conditional on permanent income, ...