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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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Do we have to work more? Macroeconomic effects of less materialistic growth
Reports 2014/13
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Economic Survey 1-2014
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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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Adjusting maternal mortality data for international comparisons
Discussion Papers no. 773
Adjusting maternal mortality data for international comparisons. The case of vital registration systems
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Weak economic trends
The moderate growth in activity experienced last year is expected to continue for another few years. Loss of powerful growth impulses from petroleum investments will be replaced by a moderate increase in growth in other demand. Unemployment will c...
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Pick a number
Discussion Papers no. 772
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
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
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
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
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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Quarterly national accounts
Documents 2014/02
The structure of this document is written in accordance with the guidelines developed by the Statistical Office of the European Communities (Eurostat) in the document "Guidelines for the drafting of QNA inventories" (Eurostat 2006). A common templ...
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The intergenerational transfer of the employment gender gap
Discussion Papers no. 767
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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