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High school dropout for marginal students: Evidence from randomized exam form
Discussion Papers no. 894
We exploit the assignment of exam form in a high-stakes Norwegian high school exam to estimate the impact of exam form on exam results, later school performance, graduation and longer run outcomes.
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Spillover bias in multigenerational income regressions
Discussion Papers no. 897
Intergenerational persistence estimates are susceptible to several well-documented biases arising from income measurement, and it has become standard practice to construct income measures to mitigate these.
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Buy to let: Investment buyers in a housing search model
Discussion Papers no. 896
This paper explores and explains how buy-to-let investors affect housing price dynamics
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Robustness of the Norwegian wage formation system and free EU labour movement: Evidence from wage data for natives
Discussion Papers no. 895
Norway experienced a high immigration flow after the EEA directive in 2004 stating workers right to free movement within the European Union and EEA-countries.
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Is the marginal cost of public funds equal to one?
Discussion Papers no. 893
In a recent article Bas Jacobs found that the marginal cost of public funds (MCF) is one when taxation gives second best resource allocation.
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Effects of higher required rates of return on the tax take in an oil province
Discussion Papers no. 892
For different reasons the oil companies might apply higher required rates of return than they did some years ago, and this will have consequences for investments and tax revenue in oil provinces.
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Collusive tax evasion by employers and employees
Discussion Papers no. 891
Third-party reporting and employers’ tax withholding are powerful compliance mechanisms, as long as the employer and employee do not collude to evade.
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Regional variation in healthcare utilization and mortality
Discussion Papers no. 890
Geographic variation in healthcare utilization has raised concerns of possible inefficiencies in healthcare supply, as differences are often not reflected in health outcomes.
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Spending the night? Provider incentives, capacity constraints and patient outcomes
Discussion Papers no. 889
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.
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Local governments, in-kind transfers, and economic inequality
Discussion Papers no. 888
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.
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Transitions from first unions among immigrants and their descendants: The role of partner choice
Discussion Papers no. 887
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.
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Social networks and tax avoidance: Evidence from a well-defined Norwegian tax shelter
Discussion Papers no. 886
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.
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An up-to-date joint labor supply and child care choice model
Discussion Papers no. 885
Norwegian parents of preschool children base their care choices on a completely different choice set from their predecessor.
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Mortality shifts and mortality compression
Discussion Papers no. 884
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.
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On the effects of linking voluntary cap-and-trade systems for CO2 emissions
Discussion Papers no. 883
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.
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