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The Labor Market in Norway: 2000-2018
(DP SAM;04/2020, Working paper, 2020-04-06)Norway has a rather high labor force participation rate and a very low unemployment rate. Part of the reason for this fortunate situation is the so-called “tripartism”: a broad agreement among unions, employers and government ... -
Losing in a Boom: Long-term Consequences of a Local Economic Shock for Female Labour Market Outcomes
(DP SAM;03/2020, Working paper, 2020-02)This paper examines the long-term labour market consequences of a positive economic shock, the first discovery of oil and gas in Norway. Existing studies focus on the short-term and men, while less is known about women and ... -
The Making of Social Democracy: The Economic and Electoral Consequences of Norway’s 1936 Folk School Reform
(SAM DP;14/2021, Working paper, 2021-08)Upon assuming power for the first time in 1935, the Norwegian Labour Party delivered on its promise for a major schooling reform. The reform raised minimum instruction time in less developed rural areas and boosted the ... -
Market Power in Retail Gasoline Markets
(DP SAM;21/2019, Working paper, 2019-07)We estimate a structural model to uncover the degree of competition in retail gasoline markets using daily station-level data on quantity and price from the Swedish market. The structural model enables us to consider key ... -
Material resources and well-being – Evidence from an Ethiopian housing lottery
(DP SAM;11/2021, Working paper, 2021-04-26)Do better material conditions improve well-being and mental health? Or does any positive relationship merely reflect that psychological well-being promotes economic success? We supply new responses to these questions by ... -
Motivating Low-Achievers—Relative Performance Feedback in Primary Schools
(DP SAM;14/2019, Working paper, 2019-11)Relative performance feedback (RPF) has often been shown to improve effort and performance in the workplace and educational settings. Yet, many studies also document substantial negative effects of RPF, in particular for ... -
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 ... -
Nepotism vs. Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital in Academia (1088–1800)
(DP SAM;09/2021, Working paper, 2021-03-16)We argue that the waning of nepotism in academia bolstered scientific production in pre-industrial Europe. We build a database of families of scholars (1088–1800), measure their scientific output, and develop a general ... -
Oh Mother: The Neglected Impact of School Disruptions
(DP SAM;30/2018, Working paper, 2018-12)Temporary school closures (TSC) represent a major challenge to policymakers across the globe due to their potential impact on instructional time and student achievement. A neglected but equally important question relates ... -
Paywalls and the demand for online news
(DP SAM;07/2019, Working paper, 2019-03)The digitisation of society has posed a challenge to news outlets. Seeking advertising revenues and facing competition for the attention of their readers, many news outlets entered the digital era with unrestricted access ... -
Performance Measurement in Agency Models
(DP SAM;05/2019, Working paper, 2019-02-25)This note explores how to evaluate an agent’s performance in standard incentive contracts. We show that the MPS criterion proposed by Kim (1995) becomes a tight condition for one performance measurement system to be more ... -
A Poorly Understood Disease? The Unequal Distribution of Excess Mortality Due to COVID-19 Across French Municipalities
(DP SAM;15/2020, Working paper, 2020-08)While COVID-19 was responsible for more than 600,000 deaths worldwide as of July 24, 2020, very little is known about the socio-economic heterogeneity of its impact on mortality. In this paper, we combine several administrative ... -
Postpartum Job Loss: Transitory Effect on Mothers, Long-run Damage to Children
(DP SAM;22/2020, Working paper, 2020-11)The first year after childbirth involves dramatic changes to parents’ lives and is crucial for children’s development. Using plausibly exogenous job loss from mass layoffs, we study the effect of labor shocks on mothers ... -
Price Change Synchronization within and between Firms
(SAM DP;15/2021, Working paper, 2021-08)This paper provides evidence on price rigidity at the product- and firm-level in Norway. A strong within-firm synchronization is found supporting the theory of economies of scope in menu costs. The industry synchronization ... -
Public policy, resource rent and ethics: The case of the Norwegian petroleum industry
(DP SAM;12/2021, Working paper, 2021-05)The present paper seeks to explain how ethics and values in public policy can be result of different historical contingencies. Specifically, it explains the accomplishment of petroleum resource management in Norway. The ... -
Puritan Motivation for Serial Entrepreneurship: The Haugean Example
(DP SAM;12/2020, Working paper, 2020-08)It is well known that protestant and puritan environments historically have fostered entrepreneurs. This paper looks at serial entrepreneurship which took place in Norway in the 19th century in networks led by the puritan ... -
Robust Information Aggregation Through Voting
(DP SAM;12/2019, Working paper, 2019-06-10)Numerous theoretical studies have shown that information aggregation through voting is fragile. We consider a model of information aggregation with vote-contingent payoffs and generically characterize voting behavior in ... -
The Role of Labor Unions in Immigrant Integration
(DP SAM;24/2023, Working paper, 2023-12)We examine if unions narrow or widen labor market gaps between natives and immigrants. We do so by combining rich Norwegian employer-employee matched register data with exogenous variation in union membership obtained ... -
School Selectivity, Peers, and Mental Health
(DP SAM;21/2020, Working paper, 2020-10-14)Although many students suffer from anxiety and depression, and students often identify school pressure and concerns about their futures as the main reasons for their worries, little is known about the consequences of a ... -
A Second Chance? Labor Market Returns to Adult Education Using School Reforms
(DP SAM;14/2020, Working paper, 2020-08)Roughly one third of a cohort drop out of high school across OECD countries, and developing effective tools to address prime-aged high school dropouts is a key policy question. We leverage high quality Norwegian register ...