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The dual approach for measuring multidimensional deprivation and poverty
Discussion Papers no. 820
This paper is concerned with the problem of ranking and quantifying the extent of deprivation exhibited by multidimensional distributions, where the multiple attributes in which an individual can be deprived are represented by dichotomized variables.
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Understanding the productivity slowdown
Discussion Papers no. 818
Many OECD countries have experienced a slowdown in measured labour productivity from 2005 and onwards. Norway is no exception in this respect.
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Residential energy efficiency and European carbon policies
Discussion Papers no. 817
While the introduction and reformation of climate policy instruments take place rapidly in Europe, the knowledge on how the instruments interact lags behind. In this paper we analyse different interpretations of the 2030 climate policy goals for r...
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School accountability: Incentives or sorting?
Discussion Papers no. 815
We exploit a nested school accountability reform to estimate the causal effect on teacher mobility, sorting, and student achievement. In 2003, lower-secondary schools in Oslo became accountable to the school district authority for student achievem...
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A stylized satellite account for human capital
Discussion Papers no. 816
This paper presents a satellite account in which investment in human capital is considered as a produced product/asset
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Why do wealthy parents have wealthy children?
Discussion Papers no. 813
Strong intergenerational correlations in wealth have fueled a long-standing debate over why children of wealthy parents tend to be well off themselves. We investigate the role of family background in determining children's wealth accumulation and ...
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Crime and the transition to teenage parenthood
Discussion Papers no. 812
Age-graded social control theory suggests that parenthood can have a preventive effect on crime among adults, but it is unclear whether and how this applies to teenagers, as teenage parenthood and affiliation with crime can have mutual confounding...
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Partner choice and timing of first marriage among children of immigrants in Norway and Sweden
Discussion Papers no. 810
Using register data from Norway and Sweden, this study addresses the relationship between partner choice and the timing of first marriage among all migrant- and non-migrant-background individuals born between 1972 and 1989, who were either native-...
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A common base answer to “Which country is most redistributive?”
Discussion Papers no. 811
Which country is most redistributive? This question is often discussed in terms of comparisons of measures of redistribution when each country’s tax schedule is applied to its pre-tax income distribution.
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Optimal indirect taxation and the uniformity debate: A review of theoretical results and empirical contributions
Discussion Papers no. 809
A review of the theoretical literature on optimal indirect taxation reveals that analytical arguments in favor of uniform indirect taxation seem weak and rather unrealistic; hence determining the optimal tax structure remains an empirical issue.
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Child care before age two and the development of language and numeracy
Discussion Papers no. 808
Young children are thought to be vulnerable to separation from the primary caregiver/s. This raises concern about whether early child care enrollment may harm children's development.
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CO2-emissions from Norwegian oil and gas extraction
Discussion Papers no. 806
In this study we investigate empirically the driving forces behind CO2-emission intensities of Norwegian oil and gas extraction, using detailed field-specific data that cover all Norwegian oil and gas activity.
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Labour Supply models
Discussion Papers no. 807
The purpose of the paper is to provide a detailed discussion in relation to the development of the field of labour supply focused microsimulation models and methodological choices.
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Targeted carbon tariffs
Discussion Papers no. 805
Climate effects of unilateral carbon policies are undermined by carbon leakage. To counteract leakage and increase global cost-effectiveness carbon tariffs can be imposed on the emissions embodied in imports from non-regulating regions.
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Estimating occupational mobility with covariates
Discussion Papers no. 804
This paper presents a method to incorporate individual covariates into such estimates of social mobility, and to construct corresponding confidence intervals.
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