• Educational attainment and family background 

      Aakvik, Arild; Salvanes, Kjell Gunnar; Vaage, Kjell (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2005-04)
      This paper analyses the effect of aspects of family background, such as family income and parental education, on the educational attainment of persons born from 1967 to 1972. Family income is measured at different periods ...
    • Measuring heterogeneity in the returns to education in Norway using educational reforms 

      Aakvik, Arild; Vaage, Kjell; Salvanes, Kjell Gunnar (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2003-07)
      The decision to take more education is complex, and is influenced by individual ability, financial constraints, family background, preferences, etc. Such factors, normally unobserved by the researcher, introduce endogeneity ...
    • Sources of measurement errors in earnings data : new estimates of intergenerational elasticities 

      Nilsen, Øivind Anti; Vaage, Kjell; Aakvik, Arild; Jacobsen, Karl Åge (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2008-04)
      Using Norwegian intergenerational data with a substantial part of the life-cycle earnings of children and almost the entire life-cycle earnings for their fathers, we present new estimates of intergenerational mobility. ...