Blar i Department of Economics på dokumenttype "Journal article"
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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 ... -
Assortative Matching at the Top of the Distribution: Evidence from the World’s Most Exclusive Marriage Market
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Using novel data on peerage marriages in Britain, I find that low search costs and marriage-market segregation can generate sorting. Peers courted in the London Season, a matching technology introducing aristocratic bachelors ... -
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 ... -
Benchmarking health system performance across districts in Zambia: A systematic analysis of levels and trends in key maternal and child health interventions from 1990 to 2010
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-04-02)Background Achieving universal health coverage and reducing health inequalities are primary goals for an increasing number of health systems worldwide. Timely and accurate measurements of levels and trends in key health ... -
(Breaking) intergenerational transmission of mental health
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)We estimate health associations across generations using information on healthcare visits from administrative data for the entire Norwegian population. A parental mental health diagnosis is associated with a 9.3 percentage ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Co-operative investment by downstream rivals: network sharing in telecom markets
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Ever-increasing data consumption and evolving technologies make cooperation on investments and network sharing crucial issues in mobile telecommunications markets. In this paper, we analyze incentives for cooperation and ... -
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 precision: incentives for developing predictive biomarker tests
(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 Career Advancement
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)In standard promotion tournaments, contestants are ranked based on their output or productivity. We argue that workers' career progression may also depend on their relative rankings in dimensions a priori unrelated to their ... -
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 moral behavior: A meta-analysis of forty-five crowd-sourced experimental designs
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Does competition affect moral behavior? This fundamental question has been debated among leading scholars for centuries, and more recently, it has been tested in experimental studies yielding a body of rather inconclusive ... -
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 ... -
Costs and consequences of abortions to women and their households: A cross-sectional study in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
(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
(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 ... -
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 ... -
Do non-enforceable contracts matter? Evidence from an international lab experiment
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-03)Many verifiable contracts are impossible or difficult to enforce. This applies to contracts among family and friends, contracts regulating market transactions, and sovereign debt contracts. Do such non-enforceable contracts ... -
Do people demand fact-checked news? Evidence from U.S. Democrats
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)In a large-scale online experiment with U.S. Democrats, we examine how the demand for a newsletter about an economic relief plan changes when the newsletter content is fact-checked. We first document an overall muted demand ... -
Do Temporary Demand Shocks Have Long-Term Effects for Startups?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Using procurement auctions and register data, we find that temporary demand shocks have long-term effects for startups. Startups that win a procurement auction have 20 higher sales and employment and are more profitable ...