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Earnings, disposable income, and consumption of allowed and rejected disability insurance applicants

Kostøl, Andreas Ravndal; Mogstad, Magne - 2015

Two key questions in thinking about the size and growth of the disability insurance program are to what extent it discourages work, and how valuable the insurance is to individuals and families. These questions motivate our paper. We begin by describing the earnings, disposable income and...

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Income mobility as an equalizer of permanent income

Aaberge, Rolf; Mogstad, Magne - 2014

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 …

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Family welfare cultures

Dahl, Gordon B.; Kostøl, Andreas Ravndal; Mogstad, Magne - 2014

Strong intergenerational correlations in various types of welfare use have fueled a long-standing debate over whether welfare receipt in one generation causes welfare participation in the next generation. Some claim a causal relationship in welfare receipt across generations has created a...

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Are Lone Mothers Responsive to Policy Changes? The Effects of a Norwegian Workfare Reform on Earnings, Education, and Poverty

Pronzato, Chiara; Mogstad, Magne - 2008

The generous Nordic model of welfare is commonly viewed as an exceptional success both in terms of equality and economic growth. However, it has recently become evident that subgroups of the population with weak labour market attachment and high welfare dependency, such as lone mothers, were...

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Is universal child care leveling the playing field?

Havnes, Tarjei; Mogstad, Magne - 2014

. Our study also points to the importance of universal child care programs in explaining differences in earnings inequality …

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Why do wealthy parents have wealthy children?

Fagereng, Andreas; Mogstad, Magne; Rønning, Marte - 2015

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 investor behavior as adults. Our research design...

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Local governments, in-kind transfers, and economic inequality

Mogstad, Magne; Aaberge, Rolf; Eika, Lasse; Langørgen, … - 2018

We examine how in-kind transfers provided by local governments affect economic inequality. The allocation of in … Norwegian data from municipal accounts and administrative registers for the period 1982- 2013. We find that economic inequality … contribution from public cash transfers. When examining the time trends in inequality, we find that local governments attenuated …

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Distributional and Environmental Effects of Taxes on Transportation

Aasness, Jørgen; Larsen, Erling Røed - 2002

modes of transportation such as air flights and taxis reduce inequality and increase the environmental quality. Lower tax … rates on low-pollution necessary modes such as buses, bicycles, and mopeds reduce inequality and increase environmental … increase inequality somewhat. Railway passenger transportation appears to be distributionally neutral. In order to interpret …

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Consumption Inequality in Norway in the 80s and 90s

Larsen, Erling Røed - 2002

This article describes the consumption model and inequality study of Chapter 2 in the author's unpublished Ph …

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Distributional Effects of Environmental Taxes on Transportation. Evidence from Engel Curves in the United States

Larsen, Erling Røed - 2005

Indirect taxes on transportation activities that pollute can correct externalities and close the gaps between private and social costs. However, policy makers often find such Pigou taxes difficult to implement because of political resistance due to possibly adverse affects on equity. For this...

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