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Does adoption of broadband internet in firms enhance labor productivity and increase wages? And is this technological change skill biased or factor neutral? We exploit rich Norwegian data to answer these questions. A public program with limited funding rolled out broadband access points, and...
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overcome these identification issues in the context of paid paternity leave in Norway using a regression discontinuity design …. In an attempt to promote gender equality, a reform made fathers of children born after April 1, 1993 in Norway eligible …
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experiment that arises from a sharp discontinuity in DI policy in Norway, we provide transparent and credible identification of …
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Norway which expanded paid leave from 18 to 35 weeks (without changing the length of job protection). Our first empirical …
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data from Norway with an instrumental variables approach based on random assignment to appellant judges, we comprehensively …
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in Norway that aimed to move beyond this tradeoff. Reform 94, implemented in one step in the fall of 1994, integrated …
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between countries. Our analysis focuses on the U.S. but also uses data from Denmark, Germany, the U.K., and Norway. We find …
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What do the education premiums look like over the life cycle? What is the impact of schooling on lifetime earnings? How does the internal rate of return compare with opportunity cost of funds? To what extent do progressive taxes attenuate the incentives to invest in education? This paper...
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. Using longitudinal data for Norway, we find that imprisonment has no effect on fathers' recidivism but reduces their …
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these claims. In this paper, we investigate the existence and importance of family welfare cultures in the context of Norway …
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