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Boble i boligmarkedet?
(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?
(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 ... -
Broken Promises or No Promises at All? -A Comparison of DAC and Non-DAC Donors’ Consideration of Corruption in Aid Allocation
(Master thesis, 2021-06-15)Foreign aid is more likely to be effective in countries with quality institutions and low levels of corruption. Therefore, the OECD Development Assistance Group (DAC) made it their official goal to be more selective in ... -
Brukes lokalt partiprogrammer til “vote buying” i Norge?
(Master thesis, 2021-09-01)Formålet med min masteroppgave har vært å undersøke om det lokale partiprogrammet brukes til vote buying i Norge. Målet med oppgaven var å undersøke korrelasjonen mellom kommunale utgifter og nærhet til politiske valg i ... -
Bunching i den norske bostøtteordningen
(Master thesis, 2019-06-22)Denne masteroppgaven undersøker om den norske bostøtteordningen kan sies å påvirke arbeidstilbudet til de som mottar støtten. For å kunne si noe om dette overordnede temaet undersøker jeg en mer spesifikk problemstilling, ... -
Bærekraftig prisutvikling i det norske boligmarkedet
(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
(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 attention explain the abnormal dynamics of the stock market?
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Can Female Doctors Cure the Gender STEMM Gap? Evidence From Exogenously-Assigned General Practitioners
(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?
(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?
(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
(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, ... -
Carbon Leakage: The Case of Norway
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Care or Cash? The Effect of Child Care Subsidies on Student Performance
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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?
(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
(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 ...