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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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Unemployment peaks in 2016
For the past year, the Norwegian economy has been experiencing an oil-driven economic downturn, which is expected to be followed by a modest recovery in the second half of 2016. Unemployment is expected to peak in 2016 at 4.6 per cent as an annual...
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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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Building national capacity for monitoring the economic development in an African country: The case of Malawi
Documents 2015/31
From the early 2000s and over the course of more than a decade Norway has supported the development of statistics and economic planning in Malawi on a number of subject areas.
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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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Economic Survey 2-2015
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Unemployment to peak at 4.3 per cent in 2016
A fall in oil investment is expected to contribute to mainland Norway’s GDP increasing by just 1.2 per cent in 2015. A moderate production upswing is expected to take effect early next year, but will not prevent unemployment from also rising in 2016.
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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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