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Dahl, Gordon B.; Løken, Katrine V.; Mogstad, Magne - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

The influence of peers could play an important role in the take up of social programs. However, estimating peer effects has proven challenging given the problems of reflection, correlated unobservables, and endogenous group membership. We overcome these identification issues in the context of...

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Family Welfare Cultures

Dahl, Gordon B.; Kostol, Andreas Ravndal; Mogstad, Magne - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

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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Educational Assortative Mating and Household Income Inequality

Eika, Lasse; Mogstad, Magne; Zafar, Basit - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

income inequality. To these ends, we use rich data from the U.S. and Norway over the period 1980-2007. We find evidence of … assortative mating by academic major. These findings motivate and guide a decomposition analysis, where we quantify the … non-negligible part of the cross-sectional inequality in household income. However, changes in assortative mating over …

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Life Cycle Earnings, Education Premiums and Internal Rates of Return

Salvanes, Kjell G; Bhuller, Manudeep; Mogstad, Magne - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

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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The Skill Complementarity of Broadband Internet

Akerman, Anders; Gaarder, Ingvil; Mogstad, Magne - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015

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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Field of Study, Earnings, and Self-Selection

Kirkebøen, Lars; Leuven, Edwin; Mogstad, Magne - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

Why do individuals choose different types of post-secondary education, and what are the labor market consequences of those choices? We show that answering these questions is difficult because individuals choose between several unordered alternatives. Even with a valid instrument for every type...

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