Browsing Department of Economics by Document Types "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 ... -
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 ... -
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 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 ... -
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 ... -
Does variation in general practitioner (GP) practice matter for the length of sick leave? A multilevel analysis based on Norwegian GP-patient data
(Journal article, 2010-05)In Norway, as in many countries, the national insurance system is under economic stress from demographic change impacting on the pensions versus contributions balance, and an increasing number of disability and sickness ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Emerging integrated care models for children and youth with mental health difficulties in Norway: a horizon scanning study
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Background The implementation of Integrated Care Models (ICMs) represents a strategy for addressing the increasing issues of system fragmentation and improving service customization according to user needs. Available ...