Department of Economics
Recent Submissions
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The intuitive cooperation hypothesis revisited: a meta-analytic examination of effect size and between-study heterogeneity
(Journal article, 2020)The hypothesis that intuition promotes cooperation has attracted considerable attention. Although key results in this literature have failed to replicate in pre-registered studies, recent meta-analyses report an overall ... -
Sysselsettingseffekter av pensjonsreformen - avhenger de av helsetilstand.
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Denne analysen undersøker om dårlig helse hindrer individer fra å kunne øke sitt arbeidstilbud slik pensjonsreformen la opp til. Vi analyserer effekten av reformen på arbeidsdeltakelse og avtalte timer i arbeid for mennesker ... -
Health effects of reduced workload for older employees
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)To keep elder employees in the labour force, introducing age-dependent job conditions can be a policy measure. However, we know little about the effect of such initiatives. We investigate the effects of a particular programme ... -
Essays on Economic Incentives and Implications of Biomarker Tests
(Doctoral thesis, 2021-02-12)This thesis consists of four chapters: an introductory chapter and three research papers on specific economic aspects of personalized medicine. The approach is empirical in the first paper and theoretical in the second and ... -
For en neve dollars til: Hvilken rolle spiller private pengeoverføringer fra utlandet for husholdninger i Somalia?
(Master thesis, 2020-09-12) -
Drivkreftene bak fordelingen av bistand og andre offisielle kapitalstrømmer fra Kina til Verden: En replikasjonsstudie av Dreher m. fl. (2018)
(Master thesis, 2020-08-20)Denne oppgaven er en replikasjon av Dreher m.fl. (2018). I skyggen av den såkalte replikasjonskrisen i akademia søker denne oppgaven å se om resultatene fra Dreher m. fl. (2018) kan gjenskapes ved bruk av det originale ... -
Individual placement and support for young adults at risk of early work disability (the SEED trial). A randomized controlled trial
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Objectives: Individual placement and support (IPS) is an effective approach for helping people with severe mental illness gain employment. This study aimed to investigate if IPS can be effectively repurposed to support ... -
More or less money? An experimental study on receiving money
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Is more money better than less? Not always. It depends on the situation. If more money for oneself means less money for a stranger, the majority of participants in dictator games choose less money for themselves. But if ... -
Preregistration and reproducibility
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Many view preregistration as a promising way to improve research credibility. However, scholars have argued that using pre-analysis plans in Experimental Economics has limited benefits. This paper argues that preregistration ... -
Digital Health Transformation of Integrated Care in Europe: Overarching Analysis of 17 Integrated Care Programs
(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 ... -
Evaluation of integrated care services in Catalonia: population-based and service-based real-life deployment protocols
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Background: Comprehensive assessment of integrated care deployment constitutes a major challenge to ensure quality, sustainability and transferability of both healthcare policies and services in the transition toward a ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Dynamic hospital competition under rationing by waiting times
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)We develop a dynamic model of hospital competition where (i) waiting times increase if demand exceeds supply; (ii) patients choose a hospital based in part on waiting times; and (iii) hospitals incur waiting time penalties. ... -
Economic Effects of Workfare Reforms for Single Mothers: Benefit Substitution and Labour Supply Responses
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)We analyse the economic effects of nationwide Norwegian reforms on the state benefit programme targeting single mothers. Our results show that for each reduction of 100 Norwegian kroner (NOK) in benefit payments from the ... -
Agglomeration and trade performance – evidence from the Norwegian salmon aquaculture industry
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Geographical concentration of industries tends to be important for firms that depend on innovation and are intensive in the use of specialized technology and labor. In this paper, we investigate the interaction between ... -
Barnløshet blant menn i Norge - hvem er de, og hvor bor de?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-04-01)In Norway, like in many other western countries, we see a steady increase over time in the proportion of men who become childless. Now nearly 20 percent of Norwegian men passing the age of 50 do not have children of their ... -
Determinants of Health and Labor Market Outcomes : Three Essays in Applied Microeconomics
(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 ... -
Women in economics: Stalled progress
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Women are still a minority in the economics profession. By the mid-2000s, just under 35 percent of PhD students and 30 percent of assistant professors were female, and these numbers have remained roughly constant ever ... -
Norwegian export of farmed salmon − trade costs and market concentration
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-04-24)While variation in unit value most commonly has been associated with quality in the trade literature, observed differences in prices between markets might also be explained by variation in market concentration and the ...
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