, and that children of low income parents seem to be the primary beneficiaries of subsidized child care. These findings are … quantile treatment effects, showing how the child care expansion affected the earnings distribution of exposed children as … adults. We complement these estimates with local linear regressions of the child care effects by family income. Our findings …

Norwegian survey data, I study to what extent voting is caused by income. Unobserved characteristics correlated with income are … handled by using fixed effects panel data discrete choice models. Although a positive association between income and … correct for measurement error, I instrument income with average income by profession. The magnitude of the coefficients is …

One element of the Norwegian disability pension system makes the extent to which pension responds to changes in income … in the last three years before disablement vary over different income profiles. This special feature is explored in order … to identify an individual specific pension incentive for income adjustment. If disability is foreseen, this feature …

self against the income loss of a bad event, the bad event is more likely to happen. Comparing register data from disabled … and non-disabled individuals shows that being disabled increases income in the last year before the time of disablement …. Further, more generous pension systems increase pre-disablement income even more. …

disability pensioners. Further, I show that the ratio of disability pension to labor income vary with different definitions of … the pension and income level. …

A lecture to graduate students of the joint Economics Ph.D. program of the Department of Economics, University of …