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associated with domestic violence (DV) in the context of Norway, where we can link offenders to victims and their children over … time. Our difference-in-differences framework uses those who will be victimized in the future as controls. We find that a … 19% for their children in the year of the event, effects which taper off over time for the victim, but not for children …
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Labor mobility is often considered to be an important source of knowledge externalities, making it difficult for firms to appropriate returns to R&D investments. In this paper, I argue that inter-firm transfers of knowledge embodied in people should be analyzed within a human capital framework....
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A number of market failures have been associated with R&D investments and significant amounts of public money have been spent on programs to stimulate innovative activities. In this paper, we review some recent microeconomic studies evaluating effects of government sponsored commercial R&D. We...
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from the panel data, substitutability is soundly rejected. When secular relationships are extracted over longer time …
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This paper explores the inconsistency of common scale estimators when output is proxied by deflated sales, based on a common output deflator across firms. The problems arise when firms operate in an imperfectly competitive environment and prices differ between firms. In particular, we show that...
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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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We find substantial and statistically significant detrimental effects of fathers' multiple-partner fertility (MPF) on children's educational outcomes. We focus on children in fathers' "second families" when the second families are nuclear families - households consisting of a man, a woman, their...
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Extending recent results in the industrial organization literature (Carvajal et al. 2013), we de-rive non-parametric tests of behavior consistent with the tragedy of the commons model. Our approach derives testable implications of such behavior under any arbitrarily concave, differentiable...
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In 2005, over 8% of Norwegian shareholders transferred their shares to new (legal) tax shelters intended to defer taxation of capital gains and dividends that would otherwise be taxable in the aftermath of 2006 reform. Using detailed administrative data we identify family networks and describe...
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policies available in Norway and the United States by comparing simulated results from the various policies on a common data …
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