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Breaking the glass ceiling? : the effect of board quotas on female labor market outcomes in Norway
(Discussion paper;28/2014, Working paper, 2014-08)In late 2003, Norway passed a law mandating 40 percent representation of each gender on the board of publicly limited liability companies. The primary objective of this reform was to increase the representation of women ... -
Breaking the Links: Natural Resource Booms and Intergenerational Mobility
(DP SAM;19/2018, Working paper, 2018-09)Do large economic shocks increase intergenerational earnings mobility through creating new economic opportunities? Alternatively, do they reduce mobility by reinforcing the links between generations? In this paper, we ... -
(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 ... -
Bridging the tax-expenditure gap : green taxes and the marginal cost of funds
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2001-02)The marginal cost of public funds is usually seen as a number greater than one, reflecting the efficiency cost of distortionary taxes. But economic intuition suggests that since green taxes are efficiency-enhancing the ... -
The broadband access market : competition, uniform pricing and geographical coverage
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2001-12)In this paper we analyze the market for broadband access. A key feature of this market is that it is considerably more expensive to connect consumers in rural locations than in urban locations. We show that while competition ... -
Building Bridges and Widening Gaps: Efficiency Gains and Equity Concerns of Labor Market Expansions
(DP SAM;19/2019, Working paper, 2019-10-20)We exploit the opening of a large bridge to study how access to a larger labor market affects economic efficiency, and how these potential efficiency gains are distributed across workers. The bridge we study connected the ... -
Business models for media firms : does competition matter for how they raise revenue?
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2009-07)The purpose of this article is to analyze how competitive forces may influence the way media firms like TV channels raise revenue. A media firm can either be financed by advertising revenue, by direct payment from the ... -
Buying influence : aid fungibility in a strategic perspective
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2004-04)I study equilibria of non-cooperative games between an aid donor and a recipient when there is conflict over the allocation of their combined budgets. The general conclusion is that a donor’s influence over outcomes is ... -
Can a mixed health care system be desirable on equity grounds ?
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2003-02)Should health care provision be public, private, or both? We look at this question in a setting where people differ in their earnings capacity and face some illness risk. We assume that illness reduces a person's time ... -
Can competition reduce quality?
(Discussion paper;9/2012, Working paper, 2012-03)We study the effect of competition on quality in markets such as health care, long-term care and education, when providers choose both prices and quality in a setting of spatial competition. We offer a novel mechanism ... -
Can Female Doctors Cure the Gender STEMM Gap? Evidence from Randomly Assigned General Practitioners
(DP SAM;18/2019, Working paper, 2019-10)We use random assignment of general practitioners (GPs) to provide the first evidence on the effects of female role models in childhood on the long-run educational outcomes of girls. We find that girls who are exposed to ... -
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 ... -
Capital taxation and imperfect competition : ACE vs. CBIT
(Discussion paper;32/14, Working paper, 2014-11)This paper studies the market and welfare effects of two main tax reforms – the Corporate Business Income Tax (CBIT) and the Allowance for Corporate Equity tax (ACE). Using an imperfect-competition model for a small open ... -
Care or cash? : the effect of child care subsidies on student performance
(Discussion paper;13/2012, Working paper, 2012-05)Given the wide use of childcare subsidies across countries, it is surprising how little we know about the effect of these subsidies on children’s longer run outcomes. Using a sharp discontinuity in the price of childcare ... -
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 ... -
Cartels uncovered
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2010-03)How many cartels are there? The answer is important in assessing the efficiency of competition policy. We present a Hidden Markov Model that answers the question, taking into account that often we do not know whether a ... -
Centralized vs. de-centralized multinationals and taxes
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2005-03)The paper examines how country tax differences affect a multinational enterprise’s choice to centralize or de-centralize its decision structure. Within a simple model that emphasizes the multiple conflicting roles of ... -
The challenge of a rising skill premium for redistributive taxation
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2007-02)The present paper analyses the challenge to redistribution programs posed by an increase in skill premium. The increase in skill premium, which we observe in most OECD countries, affects taxation through its effect on ... -
Challenges for the construction of historical price indices : the case of Norway, 1777-1920
(Discussion papers;5/2014, Working paper, 2014-03)This paper reviews some methodological and practical problems encountered in the construction of historical price indices. The underlying data sets in such studies are often characterized by heterogenous and incomplete ... -
Childhood Nutrition and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from a School Breakfast Program
(DP SAM;15/2016, Working paper, 2016-11-29)While a growing literature documents the short-term effects of public programs providing children with nutritious food, there is scarce evidence of the long-term eects of such programs. This paper studies the long-term ...