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Revisiting the Boston data set (Harrison and Rubinfeld, 1978): a case study in the challenges of system articulation.
(SAM;30/2015, Working paper, 2015-12-18)In the extended topical sphere of Regional Science, more scholars are addressing empirical questions using spatial and spatio-temoral data. An emerging challenge is to alert “new arrivals” to existing bodies of knowledge ... -
Long-Term Consequences of Access to Well-child Visits.
(SAM;29/2015, Working paper, 2015-12-02)A growing literature documents the positive long-term effects of policy-induced improvements in early-life health and nutrition. However, there is still scarce evidence on early-life health programs targeting a large share ... -
Disease Control and Inequality Reduction: Evidence from a Tuberculosis Testing and Vaccination Campaign
(SAM;28/2015, Working paper, 2015-12-02)This paper examines the economic impact of a tuberculosis control program launched in Norway in 1948. In the 1940s, Norway had one of the highest tuberculosis infection rates in Europe, affecting about 85 percent of the ... -
The Public Economics of Climate Change
(SAM;27/2015, Working paper, 2015-11-19)This paper considers the challenges to the field of public economics that arise from the issue of global warming. It outlines the argument for viewing the global climate as a public good and describes the problems that ... -
How Strong are Ethnic Preferences?
(SAM;26/2015, Working paper, 2015-11-13)Ethnic divisions have been shown to adversely affect economic performance and political stability, especially in Africa, but the underlying reasons remain contested, with multiple mechanisms potentially playing a role. We ... -
Fairness and family background
(Discussion paper;25/15, Working paper, 2015-10)Fairness preferences fundamentally affect individual behavior and play an important role in shaping social and political institutions. However, people differ both with respect to what they view as fair and with respect ... -
Intergenerational Mobility and the Timing of Parental Income
(Discussion paper;23/15, Working paper, 2015-10)We extend the standard intergenerational mobility literature by modelling individual outcomes as a function of the whole history of parental income, using data from Norway. We find that, conditional on permanent income, ... -
Education Research and Administrative Data
(Discussion paper;24/15, Working paper, 2015-10)Thanks to extraordinary and exponential improvements in data storage and computing capacities, it is now possible to collect, manage, and analyze data in magnitudes and in manners that would have been inconceivable just ... -
Trading off Welfare and Immigration in Europe
(Discussion paper;22/15, Working paper, 2015-10)In this paper, we explore the trade-off Europe faces when choosing between immigration from poor countries and welfare spending. Using data from the European Social Survey on sixteen countries from 2002{2012, we document ... -
Quota Enforcement and Capital Investment in Natural Resource Industries
(Discussion paper;21/15, Working paper, 2015-08)We investigate the relationship between quota enforcement, compliance, and capital accumulation in ITQ regulated fisheries. Over-extraction and over-capacity represent two of the main fisheries management challenges, and ... -
A Corporate-Crime Perspective on Fisheries: Liability Rules and Non-Compliance
(Discussion paper;20/15, Working paper, 2015-08)The existing fisheries economics literature analyzes compliance problems by treating the fishing firm as one cohesive unit, but in many cases, violations are committed by agents acting on behalf of a firm. To account for ... -
Equity theory and fair inequality: a neuroconomic study
(Discussion paper;19/15, Working paper, 2015-08)The present paper reports results from the first study designed to examine the neuronal responses to income inequality in situations in which individuals have made different contributions in terms of work effort. ... -
Fairness in bankruptcy situations: an experimental study
(Discussion paper;17/15, Working paper, 2015-08)The pari passu principle is the most prominent principle in the law of insolvency. We report from a lab experiment designed to study whether people find this principle a fair solution to the bankruptcy problem. The ... -
Do Treatment Decisions Depend on Physicians` Financial Incentives?
(Discussion paper;15/15, Working paper, 2015-07)We study whether and how physicians respond to financial incentives, making use of detailed register data on the health-care services provided to patients by general practitioners (GPs) in Norway over a six-year period ... -
Norwegian GDP by industry 1830-1930
(Discussion paper;16/15, Working paper, 2015-08)The present paper offers new knowledge of historical national accounting in Norway in several ways. Firstly, a new and novel set of annual gross domestic product series by industry are presented for the period 1830‐1930. ... -
Fairness and the Development of Inequality Acceptance
(Discussion paper;18/15, Working paper, 2015-08)Fairness considerations fundamentally affect human behavior, but our understanding of the nature and development of people’s fairness preferences is limited. The dictator game has been the standard experimental design for ... -
Women Helping Women? Evidence from Private Sector Data on Workplace Hierarchies
(Discussion paper;14/15, Working paper, 2015-06)This paper studies gender spillovers in career advancement using 11 years of employer-employee matched data on the population of white-collar workers at over 4,000 private-sector establishments in Norway. Our data include ... -
Does Reference Pricing Drive Out Generic Competition in Pharmaceutical Markets? Evidence from a Policy Reform
(Discussion paper;11/15, Working paper, 2015-06)In this paper we study the impact of reference pricing (RP) on entry of generic firms in the pharmaceutical market. For given prices, RP increases generic firms' expected profit, but since RP also stimulates price ... -
Socioeconomic Status and Physicians’ Treatment Decisions
(Discussion paper;12/15, Working paper, 2015-06)This paper aims at shedding light on the social gradient by studying the relationship between socioeconomic status (SES) and provision of health care. Using administrative data on services provided by General Practitioners ... -
Ownership change and its implications for the match between the plant and its workers
(Discussion paper;10/15, Working paper, 2015-05)Is ownership change an opportunity for new owners to make systematic changes in the workforce of the acquired plant? This paper explores the adjustments to plant size and the composition of the workforce that occur around ...