Blar i Department of Economics på dokumenttype "Doctoral thesis"
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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, ... -
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 ... -
Economic incentives, employment and health
(Doctoral thesis, 2019-05-24)The goal of this thesis is to shed new light on the mechanisms behind the high rates of disabilityrelated non-employment in Norway, and to find explanations for the apparent rise of labor market exclusion problems within ... -
Empirical Essays on Health and Aging
(Doctoral thesis, 2019-05-29)This thesis is composed of four chapters: One introductory chapter and three chapters that each include one of the three essays that make up the main body of the thesis. Common features of the essays are empirical assessments ... -
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 ... -
Essays on the inefficiency of Norwegian agricultural policy
(Doctoral thesis, 2010-09-22)Paper V: Modelling farmers’ labour supply in agricultural models:Micro-based research on farm households’ allocation of time suggests that farm labour ispartially sector-specific, i.e., that reallocation of farm labour as ... -
Four essays in international trade: Trade flows in food products
(Doctoral thesis, 2015-10-26)This thesis consists of four essays within the field of international trade economics, as well as an introduction chapter. All four papers are empirical studies of trade flows in food products using transaction data. The ... -
Four essays on ageing, health and labour market participation
(Doctoral thesis, 2019-02-22)This thesis consists of five essays: An introductory essay and four essays within the topic of ageing, health and labour market participation. In the introduction I motivate the research questions, discuss how it relates ... -
Four Essays on the Determinants of Human Capital Accumulation in Norway
(Doctoral thesis, 2018-01-19)This thesis consists of four articles that use administrative data to explore the Norwegian education system, from childcare to high school. The goal of the dissertation as a whole is to uncover and quantify the impact of ... -
Market Design and Stock Liquidity. Three Essays in Market Microstructure
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Price Coordination and Consumer Behavior : Evidence from Retail Fuel
(Doctoral thesis, 2022-04-08)This thesis consists of an introduction and three essays on price coordination and consumer behavior in the retail fuel market. Each essay includes one of the research articles that compose the principle part of the thesis. ... -
Spatial Variation in Housing Prices: Econometric Analyses of Regional Housing Markets
(Doctoral thesis, 2008-06-12)This thesis consists of six empirically-based papers. Collectively, the papers contribute to theunderstanding of the spatial variation in housing prices within regional housing markets. Themain ambitions have been to ... -
Three essays on regulation in Energy and Environmental Economics
(Doctoral thesis, 2021-08-20)There are four chapters in this thesis. The first is an introductory chapter, and the remaining three are composed of the research papers. The first part of the introductory chapter presents the problem of negative ... -
Trade and Capital Movements in a Globalizing World
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What affects the career choices of health workers? Four essays on preferences, incentives and career choices in a low-income context
(Doctoral thesis, 2010-09-10)The geographical imbalance of the health workforce in Tanzania represents a serious problem when it comes to delivering crucial health services to a large share of the population. TheTanzanian health system, like many ...