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Does adoption of broadband internet in firms enhance labor productivity and increase wages? And is this technological … adoption of broadband internet in firms. Our results suggest that broadband internet improves (worsens) the labor outcomes and … internet. We find suggestive evidence that broadband adoption in firms complements skilled workers in executing nonroutine …
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challenging due to data availability and correlated unobservables. This paper overcomes these challenges in the context of Norway …
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alternatives. Even with a valid instrument for every type of education, instrumental variables estimation of the payoffs require …. Our context is Norway's post-secondary education system where a centralized admission process covers almost all …
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The relative popularity of adjustable-rate mortgages (ARMs) and fixed-rate mort- gages (FRMs) varies considerably both across countries and over time. We ask how movements in current and expected future interest rates affect the share of ARMs in total mortgage issuance. Using a nine-country...
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inputs, and product characteristics with plausibly exogenous variation in the availability and adoption of broadband internet …, this paper provides causal evidence on how the internet affected the traditional print media market. Household adoption of … broadband internet triggered large reductions in print readership and circulation and equally large increases in online news …
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Norway provides plausibly exogenous variation in internet use. Our instrumental variables estimates show that internet use …We study the effects of broadband internet use on the investment decisions of individual investors. A public program in … increase their trading activity in stocks. Overall, access to high-speed internet seems to spur a "democratization of finance …
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so, examine the role of colleges as marriage markets. Using data from Norway to address key identification and …
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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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Using quasi-random assignment of criminal cases to judges, we estimate large incarceration spillovers in criminal and brother networks. When a defendant is sent to prison, there are 51 and 32 percentage point reductions in the probability his criminal network members and younger brothers will be...
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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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