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Asset market participation and portfolio choice over the life-cycle
Discussion Papers no. 758
We study the life cycle of portfolio allocation following for 15 years a large random sample of Norwegian households using error-free data on all components of households' investments drawn from the Tax Registry.
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Does parenthood imply less specialization than before?
Discussion Papers no. 757
The presence of children still tends to reinforce a traditional division of labour in couples in many countries.
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Self-reinforcing effects between housing prices and credit: an extended version
Discussion Papers no. 756
The financial crisis has brought the interaction between housing prices and household borrowing into the limelight of economic policy debate.
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Prices vs. quantities with endogenous cost structure
Discussion Papers no. 755
This paper derives a criterion comparing prices versus tradable quantities in terms of expected welfare, given uncertainty, optimal policy and endogenous cost structure.
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Can non-market regulations spur innovations in environmental technologies?
Discussion Papers no. 754
This paper provides new evidence on the role of non-market based (“command-and-control”) regulations in relation to innovations in environmental technologies.
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Does more involved fathering imply a double burden for fathers in Norway?
Discussion Papers no. 753
While long total work hours (paid plus unpaid work) have usually been framed as a problem for employed women, researchers now ask whether more involved fathering practices imply a double burden for men, too.
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Household affiliation of young adults in Italy and Norway
Discussion Papers no. 752
Italy and Norway are characterized by different household patterns of young adults, with young Italians being more likely to live in their parents' house and young Norwegians more likely to live independently, alone or in multi-occupant households.
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The cost-of-living index with trade barriers
Discussion Papers no. 751
The standard cost-of-living index hinges on the assumption that there is free trade. Applying it to situations where trade barriers are present yields biased results with respect to a true cost-of-living index.
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Childhood residential mobility and adult outcomes
Discussion Papers no. 750
This study analyses the relation between moving during childhood and four different outcomes later in life.
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The median as watershed
Discussion Papers no. 749
This paper is concerned with concepts – poverty, inequality, affluence, and polarization – that are typically treated in different literatures. Our aim here is to place them within a common framework and to identify the way in which different clas...
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Economic Survey 2-2013
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Is the relationship between schooling and disability pension receipt causal?
Discussion Papers no. 748
We examine the potential causal effect of years of schooling on the use of public disability pensions by studying the extension of compulsory schooling introduced in Norway in the 1960s.
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The distributional impact of public services in European countries
Discussion Papers no. 746
The purpose of this paper is to study the impact of including the value of public health care, long-term care, education and childcare on estimates of income inequality and financial poverty in 23 European countries.
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Climate policies in a fossil fuel producing country
Discussion Papers no. 747
In absence of joint global action, many jurisdictions take unilateral steps to reduce carbon emissions, and the usual strategy is to restrict domestic demand for fossil fuels. The impact on global emissions of such demand side policies is found by...
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Biofuel mandate versus favourable taxation of electric cars: The case of Norway
Discussion Papers no. 745
This study investigates whether biofuel policies or favourable taxation of electric cars should be employed to satisfy a green house gas emission target connected to private transport within the Norwegian economy.
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