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1. Pension and Labour Supply -- Does the 2011 Reform Effect Depend on Prior Health Status?

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The comprehensive Norwegian pension reform implemented in 2011 incentivises an extended working life. We analyse the effect of the reform at the extensive and intensive margin of labour supply. We identify reform effects by looking at labour responses before and after the reform using a treatment and control group approach (regression-adjusted dynamic difference-in-differences). Using objective and highly reliable health care utilisation data, we analyse whether the reform effects depend on individual health, measured prior to the earliest pension claiming age, which was 62 after the reform. We find that the positive reform effect on labour supply found in the literature is independent of health status. Irrespective of gender and type of job, people of poor prior health increase their labour supply after the reform no less than people of better health. The reform thus seems to support equality of opportunity for older workers in the labour market

Aakvik, Arild; Holmås, Tor Helge; Monstad, Karin;
2023
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2. Estimates of Intergenerational Elasticities Based on Lifetime Earnings

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Using Norwegian intergenerational data with a substantial part of the life-cycle earnings of children and almost the entire life-cycle earnings for their fathers, we present new estimates of intergenerational mobility. Extending the length of the fathers' earnings windows from 5 to 30 years increases the estimated elasticities. Increasing the age of father at observation has the opposite effect. Our findings indicate that intergenerational earnings mobility may have been strongly overstated in many earlier studies with shorter earnings histories. Biases in the estimated elasticities appear to be related to age and/or life-cycle measurement errors more than persistency in the transitory innovations

Nilsen, Øivind Anti; Vaage, Kjell; Aakvik, Arild; Jacobsen, Karl;
2021
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Citations: 3 (based on OpenCitations) Cited By

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3. Treatment Effects for Discrete Outcomes When Responses to Treatment Vary Among Observationally Identical Persons : An Application to Norwegian

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This paper formulates an econometric framework for studying the impact of interventions on discrete outcomes when responses to treatment vary among observationally identical persons. Using a latent variable model that can be linked to well-posed economic models, we show how to define and interpret the average treatment effects, the average effect of treatment on the treated, the marginal treatment effect and the distribution of treatment effects for discrete outcomes. To estimate these parameters and the distribution of treatment effects, we formulate and estimate a discrete choice model with unobservables generated by a factor structure model. We apply our methods to evaluate the effect of Norwegian Vocational Rehabilitation training programs on employment outcomes for women. We find that applicants to these programs who participate in active training have a 4.6% higher employment rate than nonparticipants. When we control for the observable characteristics of applicants, we find that the average treatment effects falls to 4.1%. When we control for the unobservables characteristics of applicants, the average treatment effect falls to -1.4% and effect of treatment on the treated is -11%. We also find evidence of substantial heterogeneity in response to training

Aakvik, Arild; Heckman, James J.; Vytlacil, Edward;
2021
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4. Measuring Heterogeneity in the Returns to Education in Norway Using Educational Reforms

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The decision to take more education is complex, and is influenced by individual ability, financial constraints, family background, preferences, etc. Such factors, normally unobserved by the researcher, introduce endogeneity and heterogeneity problems into estimating the returns to education. In this paper, these problems are addressed by estimating a comparative advantage model for schooling, in which the returns to education vary at different levels of education. The model requires that instruments must be specified at each level of education, and we suggest that different school reforms in Norway can serve as suitable instruments. In particular, we exploit the staged implementation of a major reform in the comprehensive school system in the 1960s. We find that the returns to education are strongly nonlinear. In particular, we find that the returns to upper secondary school and shorter programs at regional colleges, together with master's programs at universities, have high returns as measured by wages. Also, we find that the average treatment effect is surprisingly high for medium-length educations (up to two years of college education). This means that increasing the general level of education, which was the intention of the comprehensive school reform of the 1960s and of other school reforms, has the potential to generate a high return in wages, although we do not consider the cost to society. We also find that there is a substantial difference between the average treatment effect and the effect of treatment on the treated for bachelor's and master's degrees at universities

Aakvik, Arild; Salvanes, Kjell G.; Vaage, Kjell;
2021
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Citations: 16 (based on OpenCitations) Cited By

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5. Dynamic peer effects in sales teams

Aakvik, Arild; Hansen, Frank; Torsvik, Gaute;
2013
Type: Arbeitspapier; Working Paper; Graue Literatur; Non-commercial literature;
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6. Does free public health care increase utilization and reduce spending? : heterogeneity and long-term effects

Hangoma, Peter; Robberstad, Bjarne; Aakvik, Arild;
2018
Type: Aufsatz in Zeitschrift; Article in journal;
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Citations: 21 (based on OpenCitations) Cited By

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7. Hospital capacity, waiting times and sick leave duration : an empirical analysis of a Norwegian health policy reform

Aakvik, Arild; Holmås, Tor Helge; Kjerstad, Egil;
2012
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8. Productivity dynamics, performance feedback and group incentives in a sales organization

Aakvik, Arild; Hansen, Frank; Torsvik, Gaute;
2017
Type: Aufsatz in Zeitschrift; Article in journal;
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Citations: 8 (based on OpenCitations) Cited By

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9. Overworked? : the relationship between workload and health worker performance in rural Tanzania

Mættstad, Ottar; Torsvik, Gaute; Aakvik, Arild;
2009
Type: Arbeitspapier; Working Paper; Graue Literatur; Non-commercial literature;
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10. Estimates of intergenerational elasticities based on lifetime earnings

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Using Norwegian intergenerational data with a substantial part of the life-cycle earnings of children and almost the entire life-cycle earnings for their fathers, we present new estimates of intergenerational mobility. Extending the length of the fathers' earnings windows from 5 to 30 years increases the estimated elasticities. Increasing the age of father at observation has the opposite effect. Our findings indicate that intergenerational earnings mobility may have been strongly overstated in many earlier studies with shorter earnings histories. Biases in the estimated elasticities appear to be related to age and/or life-cycle measurement errors more than persistency in the transitory innovations. -- Intergenerational mobility ; measurement error

Nilsen, Øivind Anti; Vaage, Kjell; Aakvik, Arild; Jacobsen, Karl;
2008
Type: Arbeitspapier; Working Paper; Graue Literatur; Non-commercial literature;
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