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    • Convergence between the Baltic and the Nordic economies: Some reflections based on new data for the Baltic countries 

      Bruno, Lars Christian; Grytten, Ola Honningdal (DP SAM;05/2024, Working paper, 2024-04-18)
      This short paper uses recent estimates of GDP per capita for the Baltic countries for the 1919-2020(22) period to test for convergence between the Baltic and the Nordic economies. Drawing from the methodology used in Bernard ...

    • Innocuous Exam Features? The Impact of Answer Placement on High-Stakes Test Performance and College Admissions 

      Franco, Catalina; Povea, Erika (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 ...

    • Will Artificial Intelligence Get in the Way of Achieving Gender Equality? 

      Carvajal, Daniel; Franco, Catalina; Isaksson, Siri (DP SAM;03/2024, Working paper, 2024-03-14)
      The promise of generative AI to increase human productivity relies on developing skills to become proficient at it. There is reason to suspect that women and men use AI tools differently, which could result in productivity ...

    • Does increasing inequality threaten social stability? Evidence from the lab 

      Barr, Abigail; Hochleitner, Anna; Sonderegger, Silvia (DP SAM;02/2024, Working paper, 2024-03)
      We study the relationship between inequality and social instability. While the argument that inequality can be damaging for the cohesion of a society is well established, the empirical evidence is mixed. We use a novel ...

    • Smartphone Bans, Student Outcomes and Mental Health 

      Abrahamsson, Sara (DP SAM;01/2024, Working paper, 2024-02)
      How smartphone usage affects well-being and learning among children and adolescents is a concern for schools, parents, and policymakers. Combining detailed administrative data with survey data on middle schools’ smartphone ...

    • How Do Firms Respond to Unions? 

      Dodini, Samuel; Stansbury, Anna; Willén, Alexander (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 ...

    • The Role of Labor Unions in Immigrant Integration 

      Dodini, Samuel; Willén, Alexander; Zhu, Julia Li (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 ...

    • The legal incidence of ad valorem taxes matters 

      Pauwels, Wilfried; Schroyen, Fred (DP SAM;23/2023, Working paper, 2023-12-19)
      It is well known that, for a specific tax, its economic incidence does not depend on which side of the market has the legal obligation to pay the tax. In this paper, we show that, for an ad valorem tax, this legal incidence ...

    • Fairness Beliefs Affect Perceived Economic Inequality 

      Støstad, Morten Nyborg (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. ...

    • Unleveling the Playing Field? Experimental Evidence on Parents’ Willingness to Give Their Child an Advantage 

      Sund, Oda (DP SAM;21/2023, Working paper, 2023-12)
      Parents play a pivotal role in shaping the opportunities and outcomes of their children. This paper provides unique evidence on parents’ willingness to give their child an advantage. I report from a large-scale lab-in-the-field ...

    • What Makes Hiring Difficult? Evidence from Linked Survey-Administrative Data 

      Bertheau, Antoine; Larsen, Birthe; Zeyu Zhao (DP SAM;20/2023, Working paper, 2023-12)
      We designed an innovative survey of firms and linked it to Danish administrative data to yield new insights about the factors that can influence firms’ hiring decisions. Several important findings stand out: (1) search and ...

    • Why do committees work? 

      Breitmoser, Yves; Valasek, Justin (DP SAM;18/2023, Working paper, 2023-11-21)
      We report on the results of an experiment designed to disentangle behavioral biases in information aggregation of committees. Subjects get private signals about the state of world, send binary messages, and finally vote ...

    • Taking the competitor’s pill: when combination therapies enter pharmaceutical markets 

      Brekke, Kurt R.; Dalen, Dag Morten; Straume, Odd Rune (DP SAM;19/2023, Working paper, 2023-11-22)
      We study the competitive effects of combination therapies in pharmaceutical markets, which crucially hinge on the additional therapeutic value of combinatory use of drugs and the therapeutic substitutability with the most ...

    • The Consequences of Inequality: Beliefs and Redistributive Preferences 

      Lobeck, Max; Støstad, Morten Nyborg (DP SAM;17/2023, Working paper, 2023-10)
      What matters for individuals’ preferences for redistribution? In this paper we show that consequentialist beliefs about inequality – beliefs about how economic inequality changes the crime rate or the quality of democratic ...

    • Gender-biased technological change: Milking machines and the exodus of women from farming 

      Ager, Philipp; Goñi, Marc; Salvanes, Kjell G. (Working paper, 2023-08-14)
      This paper studies the link between gender-biased technological change in the agricultural sector and structural transformation in Norway. After WWII, Norwegian farms began widely adopting milking machines to replace the ...

    • Natural Resources, Demand for Skills, and Schooling Choices 

      Bütikofer, Aline; Dalla-Zuanna, Antonio; Salvanes, Kjell G. (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 ...

    • (Breaking) intergenerational transmission of mental health 

      Bütikofer, Aline; Ginja, Rita; Karbownik, Krzysztof; Landaud, Fanny (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 ...

    • Experimental Evidence on the Acceptance of Males Falling Behind 

      Cappelen, Alexander W.; Falch, Ranveig; Tungodden, Bertil (SAM DP;13/2023, Working paper, 2023)
      In recent decades, an increasing share of males struggle in the labor market and education. We show in a set of large-scale experimental studies involving more than 30,000 Americans that people are more accepting of males ...

    • The Career Effects of Union Membership 

      Dodini, Samuel; Salvanes, Kjell G.; Willén, Alexander; Zhu, Li (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 ...

    • Parenthood and the Gender Gap in Commuting 

      Bütikofer, Aline; Karadakic, René; Willén, Alexander (SAM DP;11/2023, Working paper, 2023-05)
      Childbirth increases the opportunity cost of commuting and makes it difficult for both parents to work far away from home. Using detailed Norwegian register data, we show that the commuting patterns of men and women diverge ...