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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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Educational assortative mating and household income inequality
Eika, Lasse; Mogstad, Magne; Zafar, Basit - 2014
income inequality. To these ends, we use rich data from the United States and Norway over the period 1980-2007. We find … educated, we find strong but declining assortative mating by academic major. These findings motivate and guide a decomposition … educational assortative mating accounts for a non-negligible part of the cross-sectional inequality in household income. However …
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Are lone mothers responsive to policy changes? Evidence from a workfare reform in a generous welfare state
Mogstad, Magne; Pronzato, Chiara - 2009
There is a heated debate in many European countries about a move towards a welfare system that increases the incentives for lone mothers to move off welfare and into work. We analyze the consequences of a major Norwegian workfare reform of the generous welfare system for lone mothers. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271278
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Peer effects in program participation
Dahl, Gordon B.; Løken, Katrine V.; Mogstad, Magne - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284011
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Are lone mothers responsive to policy changes? : evidence from a workfare reform in a generous welfare state
Mogstad, Magne; Pronzato, Chiara Daniela - 2009
There is a heated debate in many European countries about a move towards a welfare system that increases the incentives for lone mothers to move off welfare and into work. We analyze the consequences of a major Norwegian workfare reform of the generous welfare system for lone mothers. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003904586
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Peer effects in program participation
Dahl, Gordon B.; Løken, Katrine V.; Mogstad, Magne - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009559016
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Peer effects in program participation
Dahl, Gordon B.; Løken, Katrine V.; Mogstad, Magne - 2013
When trading, firms choose between different payment contracts. As shown theoretically in Schmidt-Eisenlohr (forthcoming), this allows firms in international trade to optimally trade-off differences in financing costs and enforcement across countries. This paper provides evidence from a large...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009773445
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010369749
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Disability Benefits, Consumption Insurance, and Household Labor Supply
Autor, David H. - 2019
There is no evaluation of the consequences of Disability Insurance (DI) receipt that captures the effects on households' net income and consumption expenditure, family labor supply, or benefits from other programs. Combining detailed register data from Norway with an instrumental variables...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012891950
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Earnings, Disposable Income, and Consumption of Allowed and Rejected Disability Insurance Applicants
Kostøl, Andreas Ravndal - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013026412