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  • Adjusting maternal mortality data for international comparisons

    Discussion Papers no. 773

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    Adjusting maternal mortality data for international comparisons. The case of vital registration systems

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  • Pick a number

    Discussion Papers no. 772

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    Recidivism studies differ with respect to samples, definitions and follow-up periods. While it is recognized that such differences hamper comparability, there is little systematic knowledge about how recidivism figures are affected.

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  • Time aggregation and state dependence in welfare receipt

    Discussion Papers no. 771

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    Dynamic discrete-choice models have been an important tool in studies of state dependence in benefit receipt. An assumption of such models is that benefit receipt sequences follow a conditional Markov process.

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  • Taxes on the internet

    Discussion Papers no. 770

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    Supporters of public disclosure of personal tax information point to its deterrent effect on tax evasion, but this effect has not been empirically explored.

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  • Diffusion of climate technologies in the presence of commitment problems

    Discussion Papers no. 768

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    Publicly announced GHG mitigation targets and emissions pricing strategies by individual governments may suffer from inherent commitment problems. When emission prices are perceived as short-lived, socially cost-effective upfront investment in cli...

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  • Income mobility as an equalizer of permanent income

    Discussion Papers no. 769

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    Do market-orientated economies with relatively large cross-sectional levels of inequality have higher income mobility and therefore less permanent inequality? To answer this question, we introduce a formal representation of income mobility as an e...

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  • The intergenerational transfer of the employment gender gap

    Discussion Papers no. 767

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    Despite well-documented convergence during the later years of the 20th century, labor market attachment remains markedly higher for men than for women.

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  • Pro-cyclical mortality

    Discussion Papers no. 766

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    Using variation across geographical regions, a number of studies from the U.S. and other developed countries have found more deaths in economic upturns and less deaths in economic downturns. We use data from regions in Norway for 1977-2008 and fin...

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  • Distributional benchmarking in tax policy evaluations

    Discussion Papers no. 765

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    Given an objective to exploit cross-sectional micro data to evaluate the distributional effects of tax policies over a time period, the practitioner of public economics will find that the relevant literature offers a wide variety of empirical appr...

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  • Are closely-held firms tax shelters?

    Discussion Papers no. 764

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    In 2004 Norwegian authorities announced a reform introducing dividend taxation for personal (but not corporate) owners to take effect starting in 2006. This change provided incentives to maximize dividends in 2004 and 2005, and to retain earnings ...

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  • A theory for ranking distribution functions

    Discussion Papers no. 763

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    When is one distribution (of income, consumption, or some other economic variable) more equal or better than another? This question has proven difficult to answer in situations where distribution functions intersect and no unambiguous ranking can ...

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  • The ins and outs of top income mobility

    Discussion Papers no. 762

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    This paper is concerned with the question of whether top income earners are permanently there or only temporarily receive the highest incomes.

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  • U.S. versus Sweden

    Discussion Papers no. 761

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    An essential difference between the design of the Swedish and the US in-work tax credit systems relates to their functional forms.

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  • Becoming “We” instead of “I”

    Discussion Papers no. 760

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    This article studies how a firm fosters formal and informal interaction among its employees to create a collective identity and positively influence their effort.

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  • Gender equality in the family and childbearing

    Discussion Papers no. 759

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    This study focuses on the possible effect of gender equality and equity in the family on the transition to first, second and third births.

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