Active projects in Statistics Norway
| Project name | Description | Research field | Contact |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alternatives to the Kyoto Protocol - The nature, design and feasibility of robust climate treaties | In this project we study the design of future alternative climate agreements and analyze how they can be design to achieve broad participation and deep emissions cut. |
Climate policy and economics
Energy and environmental policy |
Cathrine Hagem
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| Analysis of Norwegian Generations and Gender Survey | The Norwegian Generations and Gender Survey was carried out in 2007-2008 and Statistics Norway and Norwegian Social Research were responsible for the Survey. |
Fertility and changes in family demography
Living conditions and social participation |
Trude Lappegård |
| BIOPOLICY: Biodiversity and Nature Index - understanding, adaptive planning, and economic policy means for management of open lowlands and forests | BIOPOLICY is an interdisciplinary project with the purpose of analyzing appropriate economic policy means for biodiversity protection in open lowlands and forests, with biodiversity targets specified in the context of the Nature Index for Norway. | Sustainable development |
Bjart J. Holtsmark Per Arild Garnåsjordet Solveig Glomsrød |
| Demographic development, education, labour supply and pensions | The aim of the project is to analyse the most important factors behind the development in education, labour supply and public pension expenditures |
Economics of education
Labour market Pensions Public economics - microeconomics |
Nils Martin Stølen
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| Diffusion of climate technologies | The main aim with the project is to gain insight into technological diffusion processes of climate technologies, and how diffusion policies interact with carbon policies. Diffusion policies are motivated either by counteracting market imperfections or as second-best options when inefficiencies are present in adjacent markets. | Technology, innovation and growth |
Brita Bye
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| Early Intervention and Social Mobility. Improving the Opportunities of Disadvantaged Children | Living conditions and social participation |
Kjetil Telle
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| Emission trading in Europe: The importance of allocation rules | The objective of the project is to study emissions trading for CO2 emissions in Norway and the EU, with main focus on allocation of quotas | Climate policy and economics |
Knut Einar Rosendahl
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| Evaluating the Design and Performance of the Welfare State | The proposed research project has a broad scope and aims to extend perspectives along several dimensions. | Income distribution |
Magne Mogstad,
Rolf Aaberge |
| Family dynamics, fertility choices and family policy | The main objective of this project is to study he factors that drive the fertility development in modern, western societies, and thus to give more insights into the family formation and life situation of women and men, and the society’s capacity to reproduce its population. | Fertility and changes in family demography |
Trude Lappegård |
| Gender and partnership dynamics | The main goal of this project is to study various patterns of gender-equality attitudes and practices among Norwegian couples and to analyse how such patterns and other factors drive the changes in gender relations and partnership dynamics. The project will use a new survey (LOGG) which include both individual and contextual data. |
Fertility and changes in family demography
Living conditions and social participation |
Randi Kjeldstad,
Trude Lappegård |
| Hooks for change? Family and employment as pathways to social inclusion among crime-prone individuals | Empirically investigate how labour market involvement and family events interact in promoting social integration and reduce crime among crime-prone individuals at the fringes of society. |
Torbjørn Skardhamar |
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| Household response to multiple environmental policy instruments | This project analyses households’ response to energy and environmental policy measures. We focus on how multiple policy measure use affect behaviour, and if there are direct conflicts of interests between various environmental and energy policy measures. |
Energy and environmental policy
Household energy use |
Bente Halvorsen
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| Oil and gas markets towards 2050 | The objective of this project is to study the development of oil and gas markets, including how changes in policies may affect these markets. | Energy and environmental policy |
Knut Einar Rosendahl
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