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    • Betalingsvilje for kvotefaktorer i kystflåten 

      Dalsbø, Haakon Thørring (Master thesis, 2015-08-31)
      Denne oppgaven fremstiller en fremgangsmåte for å utrede en aktørs betalingsvilje for et kjøp av en ekstra mengde kvote, utover hans opprinnelige kvote. Jeg avgrenser oppgaven med å se på en aktør i kystflåten, og ser på ...

    • Betydningen av sosioøkonomisk status for kjønnsdelte utdanningsvalg 

      Wessel, Martin (Master thesis, 2015-08-19)
      Til tross for at Norge i et internasjonalt perspektiv har svært høy grad av likestilling mellom kjønnene, er det norske utdanningssystemet og arbeidsmarkedet relativt sterkt kjønnssegregert, med implikasjoner for blant ...

    • Bidrar høyere frafallsrater i videregående opplæring til mer kriminalitet? 

      Borgersrud, Anders Simensen (Master thesis, 2018-06-23)
      Denne oppgaven undersøker sammenhengen mellom frafall i videregående opplæring og anmeldte lovbrudd. Deskriptivt statistikk viser til at både frafallsraten og anmeldte lovbrudd har vært avtagende trender de siste årene. ...

    • Boble i boligmarkedet? 

      Aure, Ann Kristin (Master thesis, 2012-06-12)
      I denne utredningen ønsker jeg å få klarhet i hvordan boligmarkedet fungerer, og ut fra det undersøke om det er grunn til å si at vi har en boble i det norske boligmarkedet. I første del av utredningen presenterer jeg ...

    • Borgerlønn i norsk kontekst: Fremtidsrettet velferdsendring eller utopisk ønsketenkning? 

      Munthe-Dahl, Jostein (Master thesis, 2017-06-23)
      Borgerlønn (basic income) er en alternativ velferdsmodell som hviler på universelle utbetalinger uten behovsprøving. Tanken er at den skal erstatte alle direkteoverføringer mellom stat og borger, midlene som i dag brukes ...

    • Bærekraftig prisutvikling i det norske boligmarkedet 

      Maldonado, Alejandro Chambi (Master thesis, 2016-12-01)
      Denne masteroppgaven undersøker prisutviklingen for blokkleiligheter i det norske boligmarkedet i moderne tid. Spesifikt undersøkes boligmarkedet i Bergen, Oslo, Stavanger og Trondheim. Problemstillingen er som følger: ...

    • Bønders tilpasning i arbeidsmarkedet 

      Holgersen, Lars Petter (Master thesis, 2000)
      Målet med oppgaven er å finne faktorer som påvirker bønders valg i arbeidsmarkedet, dvs. skal han drive som fulltidsbonde, deltidsbonde eller slutte som bonde. Analysen ble gjennomført ved hjelp av økonometrisk metode, og ...

    • Can Female Doctors Cure the Gender STEMM Gap? Evidence From Exogenously-Assigned General Practitioners 

      Riise, Julie; Willage, Barton; Willen, Alexander L.P. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      We use exogenously-assigned general practitioners to study the effects of female role models on educational outcomes of girls. Girls who are exposed to female GPs are more likely to sort into male-dominated education ...

    • Can framing change individual attitudes towards immigration? 

      Wiig, Thea Martine Aalen (Master thesis, 2017-06-16)
      Does framing change individual attitudes towards immigration? This thesis analyzes the effect of providing information about the unemployment- and employment rate of immigrants in Norway, as well as information about the ...

    • Can social norms lead people to choose less money over more? 

      Michelsen, Sondre Vågenes (Master thesis, 2017-07-01)
      The point of departure for this paper is a surprising finding from an economic experiment. Tjøtta (2016) designs a more or less game, where participants are asked to choose between receiving 450 kroner or 250 kroner, ...

    • Capital flows to developing countries: Essays on the behavior of aid donors and official creditors 

      Nordtveit, Ingvild (Doctoral thesis, 2014-06-02)
      The capital flows from bilateral and multilateral donors to developing countries have increased considerably since the start of foreign aid in the 1950s. During the same period, the policies of aid allocation have changed, ...

    • Care or Cash? The Effect of Child Care Subsidies on Student Performance 

      Sandra, Black; Devereux, Paul J.; Løken, Katrine Vellesen; Salvanes, Kjell Gunnar (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-12)
      Given the wide use of child care subsidies across countries, it is surprising how little we know about the effect of these subsidies on children's longer-run outcomes. Using a sharp discontinuity in the price of child care ...

    • Choosing a cellmate in the prisoner's dilemma. An experimental study 

      Strømland, Eirik André (Master thesis, 2014-09-01)
      This thesis investigates cooperative behavior in a repeated Prisoner's Dilemma using experimental methods. In the experiment, we allow subjects to form voluntary partnerships by mutual choice, and to communicate through a ...

    • Comparing input interfaces to elicit belief distributions 

      Crosetto, Paolo; de Haan, Thomas (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      This paper introduces a new software interface to elicit belief distributions of any shape: Click-and-Drag. The interface was tested against the state of the art in the experimental literature—a text-based interface and ...

    • Competing with grades - The effect of school choice on high school dropout rates 

      Fidjeland, Andreas Lofthus (Master thesis, 2017-06-09)
      As efforts are made to reduce dropouts among high school students, school choice remains a hotly debated policy. The subject is complicated by an apparent gender gap in the academic performance of boys and girls. As girls ...

    • Competition and equity in health care markets 

      Siciliani, Luigi; Straume, Odd Rune (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      We provide a model where hospitals compete on quality under fixed prices to investigate how hospital competition affects (i) quality differences between hospitals, and as a result, (ii) health inequalities across hospitals ...

    • Competition and physician behaviour: Does the competitive environment affect the propensity to issue sickness certificates? 

      Brekke, Kurt Richard; Holmås, Tor Helge; Monstad, Karin; Straume, Odd Rune (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      Competition among physicians is widespread, but compelling empirical evidence on its impact on service provision is limited, mainly due to endogeneity issues. In this paper we exploit that many GPs, in addition to own ...

    • Competitive effects of Airbnb on the Norwegian hotel market 

      Ytreberg, Nora Svarstad (Master thesis, 2016-12-01)
      The aim of this thesis is to contribute to the growing literature on the competitive effects of P2P sharing platforms on existing markets, in particular their effect on incumbent firms. I study the case of Airbnb and its ...

    • Costs and consequences of abortions to women and their households: A cross-sectional study in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso 

      Ilboudo, Patrick Christian Gueswende; Greco, Giulia; Sundby, Johanne; Torsvik, Gaute (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015)
      Little is known about the costs and consequences of abortions to women and their households. Our aim was to study both costs and consequences of induced and spontaneous abortions and complications. We carried out a ...

    • COVID-19 and mental health: a longitudinal population study from Norway 

      Hvide, Hans K.; Johnsen, Julian Vedeler (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      Existing research has found adverse short-term effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health, but longer-term effects have been less documented. Using newly released register data on all general practitioner consultations ...