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Is Universal Child Care Leveling the Playing Field?
Havnes, Tarjei; Mogstad, Magne - CESifo - 2012
Many developed countries currently consider a move towards a universal child care program. The challenge in assessing the case for universal child care programs is that the evidence base is scarce. We analyze the staged expansion of subsidized, universally accessible child care in Norway. Our...
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Baby Booming Inequality? Demographic Change and Earnings Inequality in Norway, 1967-2000
Almås, Ingvild; Havnes, Tarjei; Mogstad, Magne - CESifo - 2010
In this paper, we demonstrate how age-adjusted inequality measures can be used to evaluate whether changes in … inequality over time are due to changes in the age structure. To this end, we use administrative data on earnings for every male … Norwegian during 1967-2000. We find that the substantial rise in earnings inequality over the 1980s and into the early 1990s, is …
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