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    • 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 ...

    • Competing with precision: incentives for developing predictive biomarker tests 

      Brekke, Kurt Richard; Dalen, Dag Morten; Straume, Odd Rune (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)
      We study the incentives of drug producers to develop predictive biomarkers, taking into account strategic interaction between drug producers and health plans. For this purpose, we develop a two-dimensional spatial framework ...

    • 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 ...

    • Danmarks fastkurspolitik: ERM2 

      Jacobsen, Kasper (Master thesis, 2018-06-23)
      Formålet med denne masteropgave er at redegøre for og analysere den danske pengepolitik, såvel som at undersøge betydningen af fastkurspolitikken. Med fokus på valutakursændring og spændet mellem danske- og euroområdets ...

    • De baltiske staters valg av valutakursregimer 

      Sjursen, Helge (Master thesis, 2006)
      Hensikten med denne oppgaven er å beskrive en del sentrale problemstillinger i forbindelse med at enkelte sentral- og østeuropeiske land (CEEC) skulle gjennomgå en overgang fra planøkonomi til markedsøkonomi (transition ...

    • Den samfunnsøkonomiske effekten av markedsføring - anvendt i den norske kosmetikk- og toalettartikkel bransjen 

      Visic, Aida (Master thesis, 2009-06-02)
      I denne oppgaven utdypes aktiviteten markedsføring og dens betydning som en konkurransevariabel.Den norske kosmetikk- og toalettartikkelbransjen er anvendt som et eksempel på en bransje som aktivt bruker ulike markedsfør ...

    • Det svensk-norske elsertifikatmarkedet: Hva blir konsekvensene? 

      Ueland, Ingrid (Master thesis, 2012-05-31)
      I denne oppgaven skal følgende problemstilling besvares: Hvordan vil en introduksjon av elsertifikater i Norge slå ut i engrospris, sluttbrukerpris og ny fornybar kraftproduksjon i et felles marked med Sverige? Flere land ...

    • Determinants of child mortality in Angola: An econometric analysis 

      Sjursen, Ingrid Hoem (Master thesis, 2011-11-30)
      The aim of this thesis is to investigate determinants of child mortality in the regions of Luanda and Uíge in Angola. The country has one of the highest child mortality rates in the world. The literature on the subject has ...

    • Determinants of Chinese FDI in Africa: An econometric analysis 

      Breivik, Anne-Lise (Master thesis, 2014-02-03)
      The aim of this thesis is to examine the determinants of Chinese FDI in Africa over the period from 2003 to 2011. The investigation is based on a sample of panel data from 49 African countries, using aggregate Chinese ...

    • Determinants of Health and Labor Market Outcomes : Three Essays in Applied Microeconomics 

      Breivik, Anne-Lise (Doctoral thesis, 2020-04-24)
      This thesis consist of four chapters: One introductory chapter and three chapters that each includes the three papers that are the main part of this thesis. The introductory chapter provides an overview of the determinants ...

    • Differential Information Economies and Incomplete Markets 

      Pronin, Kira (Master thesis, 2008-05-26)
      In a pure exchange economy with differential information, there may be ex-post Pareto-dominant core allocations which are not attainable as Rational Expectations Equilibria because of information verifiability issues. On ...

    • Digital Health Transformation of Integrated Care in Europe: Overarching Analysis of 17 Integrated Care Programs 

      Baltaxe, Erik; Czypionka, Thomas; Kraus, Markus; Reiss, Miriam; Askildsen, Jan Erik; Grenkovic, Renata; Lindén, Tord Skogedal; Pitter, János György; Rutten-van Molken, Maureen; Solans, Oscar; Stokes, Jonathan; Struckmann, Verena; Roca, Josep; Cano, Isaac (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      Background: Digital health tools comprise a wide range of technologies to support health processes. The potential of these technologies to effectively support health care transformation is widely accepted. However, wide ...

    • Do actions speak louder than words? - Communication and partner choice in the prisoner's dilemma game 

      Steine, Frøydis Sæbø (Master thesis, 2018-06-28)
      Communication has been shown to enhance cooperation (Dawes, McTavish and Shaklee 1977; Isaac and Walker 1988; Sally 1995; Bochet, Page and Putterman 2006). But do all people benefit equally from communication? This thesis ...