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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 ... -
Competitiveness, gender and handedness: a large-sample intercultural study
(DP SAM;02/2020, Working paper, 2020-01)We conduct a large-scale intercultural experiment to elicit competitiveness and ask whether individual and gender differences in competitiveness are partially determined by nature. We use being a “lefty” (i.e., having ... -
Entitled to Leave: the impact of Unenployment Insurance Eligibility on Employment Duration and Job Quality
(DP SAM;01/2020, Working paper, 2020-01-13)Entitlement conditions are a little explored dimension of unemployment insurance (UI) schemes. In this paper, we provide a comprehensive evaluation of a reform that softened the minimum employment record condition to qualify ... -
Having a Daughter Reduces Male Violence Against a Partner
(DP SAM;24/2019, Working paper, 2019-12-28)In a global sample of around 310,000 couples, men whose firstborn child is a girl (instead of a boy) are 10 percent less likely to strangle their partner each year. The probability that they kick, punch, or slap her also ... -
If You Could Read My Mind—An Experimental Beauty-Contest Game with Children
(DP SAM;23/2019, Working paper, 2021-03)We develop a new design for the experimental beauty-contest game (BCG) that is suitable for children in school age and test it with 114 schoolchildren aged 9–11 years. In addition, we collect measures on cognitive skills ... -
Hump-shaped cross-price effects and the extensive margin in cross-border shopping
(DP SAM;20/2019, Working paper, 2019-09-23)This paper examines the effect of cross-border shopping on grocery demand in Norway using monthly store×category sales data from Norway’s largest grocery chain 2011-2016. The sensitivity of demand to foreign price is ... -
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 ... -
Evaluating Carbon Capture and Storage in a Climate Model with Endogenous Technical Change
(DP SAM;22/2019, Working paper, 2019-10-16)We assess the extent to which Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) and R&D on this abatement technology are part of a socially efficient solution to the problem of climate change. For this purpose, we extend the intertemporal ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Going Fast or Going Green? Evidence from Environmental Speed Limits in Norway
(DP SAM;17/2019, Working paper, 2019-10-03)This paper studies the impact of speed limits on local air pollution using a series of datespecific speed limit reductions in Oslo over the 2004-2011 period. We find that lowering the speed limit from 80 to 60 km/h reduces ... -
The impact of international tax information exchange agreements on the use of tax amnesty: evidence from Norway
(DP SAM;16/2019, Working paper, 2019-09)In this paper we develop a model for tax amnesty applications in a multi-period setting. One key insight from the model is that applying for amnesty becomes more attractive at the moment when stricter enforcement is ... -
The Blue Maritime Cluster Crisis: Financial Instability and Supply Chain Management Effects
(DP SAM;15/2019, Working paper, 2019-08)The present paper investigates the offshore crisis 2015-2017 and its impact on one of the most complete maritime clusters, more precise the Blue Maritime Cluster, located at Møre og Romsdal at the North Western Coast of ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Self-regulation Training and Job Search Behavior: A Natural Field Experiment Within an Active Labor Market Program
(DP SAM;13/2019, Working paper, 2019-10)Recent evidence suggests that self-regulation abilities play an important role for the job finding success of unemployed persons. We conduct a randomized controlled trial embedded in an established labor market reactivation ... -
Evidence of the Environmental Kuznets Curve in Emerging Eastern European Economies
(DP SAM;11/2019, Working paper, 2019-05)This study aims to investigate the relationship of economic development, measured as economic growth, energy use, trade and foreign direct investment one the one hand and environmental degradation (carbon dioxide (hereafter ... -
From Employment to Engagement? Stable Jobs, Temporary Jobs, and Cohabiting Relationships
(DP SAM;10/2019, Working paper, 2019-04)Family formation has been substantially delayed in recent decades, and birth rates have fallen below the replacement rates in many OECD countries. Research suggests that these trends are tightly linked to recent changes ... -
A Meritocratic Origin of Egalitarian Behavior
(DP SAM;09/2019, Working paper, 2019-04-29)The meritocratic fairness ideal implies that inequalities in earnings are regarded as fair only when they reflect differences in performance. Consequently, implementation of the meritocratic fairness ideal requires complete ... -
The Financial Instability Hypothesis and the Financial Crisis in Eastern European Emerging Economies
(DP SAM;08/2019, Working paper, 2019-04)The present paper applies the financial instability hypothesis in order to explain the financial crises of 2008-2010 in eleven emerging Eastern European economies Also, it seeks to map if institutional frameworks of these ...