Discussion papers

Geographic variation in healthcare utilization has raised concerns of possible inefficiencies in healthcare supply, as differences are often not reflected in health outcomes.

Healthcare providers’ response to payment incentives may have consequences for both fiscal spending and patient health. This paper studies the effects of a change in the payment scheme for hospitals in Norway.

We examine how in-kind transfers provided by local governments affect economic inequality. The allocation of in-kind transfers to households and the adjustment for differences in needs are derived from a model of local government spending behavior.

The family life courses of immigrants and their descendants, particularly intermarriage and the timing of marriage and childbearing, have been widely studied as indicators of societal integration.

In 2005, over 8% of Norwegian shareholders transferred their shares to new (legal) tax shelters intended to defer taxation of capital gains and dividends that would otherwise be taxable in the aftermath of 2006 reform.

Norwegian parents of preschool children base their care choices on a completely different choice set from their predecessor.

The aim of the paper is to verify whether the projections predict a continuation of the ongoing compression in mortality and of the steady upward shift in the ages at which people die.

Linkage of cap-and-trade systems is typically advocated by economists on a general analogy with the beneficial linking of free-trade areas and on the specific grounds that linkage will ensure cost effectiveness among the linked jurisdictions.

Persistently high workload may raise sickness absence with associated costs to firms and society.

We study the impact of child care for toddlers on the labor supply of mothers and fathers in Norway.

Encouraging effects from random assignments of intensive and high-quality early child care to disadvantaged children have spurred hopes that publicly funded universal child care can improve human development and social mobility.

The marginal cost of public funds (MCF) is substantial in generous welfare state countries according to Kleven and Kreiner (2006).

We analyse all the major sources of direct and indirect R&D subsidies in Norway in the period 2002-2013 and compare their effects on individual firms’ performance.

The purpose of the paper is to provide a discussion of the various approaches for accounting for labour supply responses in microsimulation models.

Public debates about the rise in top income shares often focus on the growing dispersion in earnings, and the soaring pay for top executives and financial-sector employees.

This paper modifies and extends the aggregate equilibrium models for matching markets developed earlier in the literature.

This paper studies the impact of the construction of hydropower facilities on labor market outcomes in Norway at the turn of the twentieth century (1891-1920).

In the current paper, we investigate within-couple inequality in earnings using Norwegian register data on married and cohabiting couples.

We reconcile two different strands of the literature: the literature on how new goods impact prices and the literature on productivity growth and firm turnover.

The paper suggests two encompassing tests for evaluating multi-step system forecasts invariant to linear transformations.