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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 ... -
The Boy Crisis: Experimental Evidence on the Acceptance of Males Falling Behind
(DP SAM;06/2019, Working paper, 2019-03-01)The ‘boy crisis’ prompts the question of whether people interpret inequalities differently depending on whether males or females are lagging behind. We study this question in a novel large-scale distributive experiment ... -
Cutthroat capitalism versus cuddly socialism: Are Americans more meritocratic and efficiency-seeking than Scandinavians?
(DP SAM;04/2019, Working paper, 2019-02)There are striking differences in inequality and redistribution between the United States and Scandinavia. To study whether there are corresponding differences in social preferences, we conducted a large-scale international ... -
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 ... -
Universal Childcare for the Youngest and the Maternal Labour Supply
(DP SAM;03/2019, Working paper, 2019-02)In this paper, we investigate whether the expansion of childcare leads to an increase in the female labour supply. We measure female labour supply at both the extensive and intensive margin. For identification, we exploit ... -
Beliefs About Racial Discrimination and Support for Pro-Black Policies
(DP SAM;02/2019, Working paper, 2019-02-05)We examine whether beliefs about racial discrimination causally affect support for pro-black policies. Using representative samples of Americans, we elicit quantitative and incentivized beliefs about the extent of labor ... -
Employment Effects of Healthcare Policy: Evidence from the 2007 FDA Black Box Warning on Antidepressants
(DP SAM;01/2019, Working paper, 2019-01-04)Public policies aimed at improving health may have indirect effects on outcomes such as education and employment. We study the labor market effects of a 2007 regulatory action by the US Food and Drug Administration, in ... -
Job Displacement, Unemployment, and Crime: Evidence from Danish Microdata and Reforms
(DP SAM;32/2018, Working paper, 2018-12)This paper estimates the individual impact of a worker’s job loss on his/her criminal activity. Using a matched employer-employee longitudinal data set on unemployment, crime, and taxes for all residents in Denmark, the ... -
Spillovers from US monetary policy: Evidence from a time-varying parameter GVAR model
(DP SAM;31/2018, Working paper, 2018-12-21)This paper develops a global vector autoregressive (GVAR) model with time-varying parameters and stochastic volatility to analyze whether international spillovers of US monetary policy have changed over time. The proposed ... -
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 ... -
Hospital Competition in the National Health Service: Evidence from a Patient Choice Reform
(DP SAM;28/2018, Working paper, 2018-12)We study the impact of exposing hospitals in a National Health Service (NHS) to non-price competition by exploiting a patient choice reform in Norway in 2001. The reform facilitates a difference-in-difference research ... -
Hump-shaped cross-price effects and the extensive margin in cross-border shopping
(DP SAM;29/2018, Working paper, 2018-12-21)This paper examines the effect of cross-border shopping on grocery demand in Norway using monthly storexcategory sales data from Norway’s largest grocery chain 2011-2016. The sensitivity of demand to foreign price is ... -
Feeding the people: grain yields and agricultural expansion in Qing China
(DP SAM;27/2018, Working paper, 2018-12-13)We use modern econometric methods to analyze a recently-released sample of 3 000 Chinese grain yields. We find significant variation across provinces and persistent increases in yields over time – albeit slow compared to ... -
Why 1990 international Geary-Khamis dollars cannot be a foundation for reliable long run comparisons of GDP
(DP SAM;25/2018, Working paper, 2018-11)Using a large, new dataset of agricultural prices and quantities for many countries and regions, we create five new international Geary-Khamis pounds – for 1870, 1845, 1775, 1705, and a superior chained series. We show ... -
A continuous consumer price index for Norway 1492-2017
(DP SAM;26/2018, Working paper, 2018-11)This manuscript presents a new combined annual cost of living and consumer price index for Norway covering the period 1492-2017. When previous Norwegian historical consumer price indices partly were constructed on the basis ... -
The Poking Effect: Price Changes, Information, and Inertia in the Market for Mobile Subscriptions
(DP SAM;23/2018, Working paper, 2018-11)We study consumer inertia in the mobile subscription market, focusing on the decision of whether to switch to a competing provider. To identify the extent of inertia, we exploit price changes faced by 270,000 consumers of ... -
Accountability and taxation: Experimental evidence
(DP SAM;24/2018, Working paper, 2018-11)The Rentier State Hypothesis states that taxation promotes government accountability. The argument is that citizens demand more accountability for spending of tax revenue than for spending of windfall revenue (e.g., natural ... -
On the perils of stabilizing prices when agents are learning
(DP SAM;22/2018, Working paper, 2018)The main advantage of price level stabilization compared with in ation stabilization rests on the central bank's ability to shape expectations. We show that stabilizing prices is no longer optimal when the central bank ... -
Euler Equations, Subjective Expectations and Income Shocks
(DP SAM;21/2018, Working paper, 2018)In this paper, we make three substantive contributions: first, we use elicited subjective income expectations to identify the levels of permanent and transitory income shocks in a life-cycle framework; second, we use these ... -
Quality Regulation and Competition: Evidence from Pharmaceutical Markets
(DP SAM;20/2018, Working paper, 2018-09)We study the effects of quality regulation on market outcomes by exploiting the staggered phase-in of bioequivalence requirements for generic drugs in Chile. We estimate that the number of drugs in the market decreased by ...