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Paying for pharmaceuticals: uniform pricing versus two-part tariffs
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Two-part pricing (the Netflix model) has recently been proposed instead of uniform pricing for pharmaceuticals. Under two-part pricing the health plan pays a fixed fee for access to a drug at unit prices equal to marginal ... -
The effect of negative income shocks on pensioners
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)This paper provides the first evidence on the labor supply response to negative income shocks among full-time retirees, exploiting an institutional feature that caused differential and unexpected income losses among otherwise ... -
National pricing with local quality competition
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)We study the incentives of national retail chains to adopt national (uniform) prices across local markets that differ in size and competition intensity. In addition to price, the chains may also compete along a quality ... -
Regulation of Location-Specific Externalities from Small-Scale Polluters
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Emission damages caused by small-scale polluters such as farms, vehicles, homes and small businesses are often location-specific and such polluters are often regulated through a combination of location-differentiated cleaner ... -
COVID-19 and mental health: a longitudinal population study from Norway
(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 ... -
Fathers’ Multiple-Partner Fertility and Children’s Educational Outcomes
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Fathers' multiple-partner fertility (MPF) is associated with substantially worse educational outcomes for children. We focus on children in fathers' second families that are nuclear: households consisting of a man, a woman, ... -
Investment and quality competition in healthcare markets
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)We study the strategic relationship between hospital investment and provision of service quality. We use a spatial competition framework and allow investment and quality to be complements or substitutes in patient benefit ... -
Improved survival of non-small cell lung cancer patients after introducing patient navigation: A retrospective cohort study with propensity score weighted historic control
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)OnkoNetwork is a patient navigation program established in the Moritz Kaposi General Hospital to improve the timeliness and completeness of cancer investigations and treatment. The H2020 SELFIE consortium selected OnkoNetwork ... -
Entrepreneur Death and Startup Performance
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)How large is entrepreneurs’ personal importance to startups? We use the death of nearly 1,500 entrepreneurs as a source of exogenous variation, and find large and sustained negative effects on growth and profitability. For ... -
Landed elites and education provision in England: evidence from school boards, 1871‑99
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)I study the relationship between land concentration and the expansion of state education in 19C England. Using a broad range of education measures for 40 counties and 1,387 School Boards, I show a negative association ... -
Employer Responses to Family Leave Programs
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Search frictions make worker turnover costly to firms. A three-month parental leave expansion in Sweden provides exogenous variation that we use to quantify firms' adjustment costs upon worker absence. The reform increased ... -
Mellom politikk og statistikk: Globale fellesgoder i utviklingspolitikken
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Bærekraftsmålene har gitt klassiske spørsmål innenfor utviklingspolitikken ny relevans: Hvem skal betale for globale fellesgoder? Kan man bruke bistand til dette formålet, eller bør den reserveres for innsats i spesifikke ... -
Value-based person-centred integrated care for frail elderly living at home: a quasi-experimental evaluation using multicriteria decision analysis
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Objective To evaluate the value of the person-centred, integrated care programme Care Chain Frail Elderly (CCFE) compared with usual care, using multicriteria decision analysis (MCDA). Design In a 12-month quasi-experimental ... -
Integrated care for multimorbidity population in Asian countries: A scoping review
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Background: The complex needs of patients with multiple chronic diseases call for integrated care (IC). This scoping review examines several published Asian IC programmes and their relevant components and elements in ... -
Upward Pricing Pressure in Two-Sided Markets: Incorporating Rebalancing Effects
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)In two-sided markets it is important to consider rebalancing effects following a merger, i.e. the impact of a change in margin on one side of the market, either due to a price change or to efficiency gains, on the pricing ... -
The Impact of Paid Maternity Leave on Maternal Health
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)We examine the impact of the introduction of paid maternity leave in Norway in 1977 on maternal health in the medium and long term. Using administrative data combined with survey data on the health of women around age 40, ... -
When does remote electronic access (not) boost productivity? Longitudinal evidence from Portugal
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Whether or not the option to work remotely increases firm labour productivity is theoretically ambiguous. We use a rich and representative sample of Portuguese firms, and within-firm variation in the policy of remote ... -
International outsourcing and trade union (de-)centralisation
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)We study the effects of centralised versus decentralised wage setting in a unionsed duopoly where firms can outsource parts of input production to foreign subcontractors. We show that decentralised (as opposed to centralised) ... -
How are we evaluating the cost-effectiveness of companion biomarkers for targeted cancer therapies? A systematic review
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Background Despite the increasing economic assessment of biomarker-guided therapies, no clear agreement exists whether existing methods are sufficient or whether different methods might produce different cost-effectiveness ... -
Parental age and birth defects: a sibling study
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Higher parental age at childbearing has generated much attention as a potential risk factor for birth disorders; however, previous research findings are mixed. Existing studies have exploited variation in parental age ...