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The impacts of alternative policy instruments on environmental performance
Discussion Papers no. 788
We study the effects of various environmental regulations on environmental performance measured as emission intensity.
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The relationship between earnings and first birth probability among Norwegian men and women 1994-2008
Discussion Papers no. 787
I analyse whether the correlation between yearly earnings and the first birth probabilities changed in the period 1994-2009 in Norway, applying discrete-time hazard regressions to highly accurate data from population registers.
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Labor supply as a discrete choice among latent jobs
Discussion Papers no. 786
This paper discusses aspects of a framework for modeling labor supply where the notion of job choice is fundamental. In this framework, workers are assumed to have preferences over latent job opportunities belonging to worker-specific choice sets ...
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The fiscal incentive of GHG cap and trade
Discussion Papers no. 785
The theoretical justification for a greenhouse gas (GHG) cap and trade system is that participants will trade emission permits until their marginal costs of abatement equal the equilibrium price of emission permits.
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Women’s wages and fertility revisited
Discussion Papers no. 784
Since the 1960s, Beckers’ New Home Economics has provided a central theoretical framework for studies of fertility behaviour. New Home Economics predict a negative effect of female wages on fertility.
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Output-based rebating of carbon taxes in the neighbor’s backyard
Discussion Papers no. 783
We investigate how carbon taxes combined with output-based rebating (OBR) in an open economy perform in interaction with the carbon policies of a large neighboring trading partner.
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Family welfare cultures
Discussion Papers no. 782
Strong intergenerational correlations in various types of welfare use have fueled a long-standing debate over whether welfare receipt in one generation causes welfare participation in the next generation.
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Differences in childbearing by time frame of fertility intention: A study using survey and register data from Norway
Discussion Papers no. 781
This paper focuses on the realization of positive fertility intentions with different time frames. The analyses are based on a unique combination of survey data and information from Norwegian administrative registers on childbearing in the years f...
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Characteristics of parents with shared residence and father sole custody
Discussion Papers no. 780
Shared residence for children has increased considerably in recent years among parents living apart in Norway, while mother sole custody is less common than before and father sole custody is still practiced by a minority.
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The equilibrium relationship between public and total employment
Discussion Papers no. 779
This paper analyses the general equilibrium relationship between increases in tax financed public employment and total employment, emphasizing one income effect: Reallocating employment from the private to the public sector reduces non-labour inco...
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A comparison of the global warming effects of wood fuels and fossil fuels taking albedo into account
Discussion Papers no. 778
Traditionally, wood fuels, like other bioenergy sources, have been considered carbon neutral because the amount of CO 2 released can be offset by CO 2 sequestration due to the regrowth of the biomass.
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Education and cancer risk
Discussion Papers no. 777
There exists a strong educational gradient in cancer risk, which has been documented in a wide range of populations. Yet relatively little is known about the extent to which education is causally linked to cancer incidence and mortality.
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The relative contribution of genetic and environmental factors to cancer risk and cancer mortality in Norway
Discussion Papers no. 776
Using Norwegian cancer registry data we study twin and non-twin siblings to decompose variation in cancer at most common sites and cancer mortality into a genetic, shared environment and individual (unshared environmental) component.
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Calculating the real return of the Norwegian Government Pension Fund Global by alternative measures of the deflator
Discussion Papers no. 775
According to the present guidelines for fiscal policy, the use of oil revenues in the Norwegian economy should over time equal the expected real return on the Government Pension Fund Global (GPFG).
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Is universal child care leveling the playing field?
Discussion Papers no. 774
We assess the case for universal child care programs in the context of a Norwegian reform which led to a large-scale expansion of subsidized child care.
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