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Earnings, Disposable Income, and Consumption of Allowed and Rejected Disability Insurance Applicants

Kostol, Andreas Ravndal; Mogstad, Magne - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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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Peer Effects in Program Participation

Dahl, Gordon B.; Loken, Katrine Vellesen; Mogstad, Magne - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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 - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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...

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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 - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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...

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Robust Inequality Comparisons

Aaberge, Rolf; Mogstad, Magne - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

curves which was proved to characterize two separate systems of nested subfamilies of inequality measures. This paper uses … the obtained characterization results to arrange the members of two different generalized Gini families of inequality … ranking of a set of Lorenz curves. From the weight-functions of these inequality measures we obtain intuitive interpretations …

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Broadband Internet: An Information Superhighway to Sex Crime?

Bhuller, Manudeep; Havnes, Tarjei; Leuven, Edwin; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

Does internet use trigger sex crime? We use unique Norwegian data on crime and internet adoption to shed light on this question. A public program with limited funding rolled out broadband access points in 2000-2008, and provides plausibly exogenous variation in internet use. Our instrumental...

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The Distributional Impact of Public Services When Needs Differ

Aaberge, Rolf; Bhuller, Manudeep Singh; Langørgen, Audun; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

, there is little reliable evidence on how the inclusion of such non-cash income actually affects poverty and inequality … and administrative registers we find that the inclusion of non-cash income reduces income inequality by about 15 percent … subgroups offsets about half the inequality reduction and some of the poverty decrease. …

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Is Universal Child Care Leveling the Playing Field? Evidence from Non-Linear Difference-in-Differences

Havnes, Tarjei; Mogstad, Magne - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

Advocates of a universal child care system offer a two-fold argument: Child care facilitates children's long-run development, and levels the playing field by benefiting in particular disadvantaged children. Therefore, a critical element in evaluating universal child care systems is to measure...

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The Impact of Local Public Services and Geographical Cost of Living Differences on Poverty Estimates

Aaberge, Rolf; Langørgen, Audun; Mogstad, Magne; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

Despite a broad consensus on the need to take into account the value of public services and geographical cost of living differences when measuring poverty, there is little reliable evidence on how these factors actually affect poverty estimates. Unlike the standard approach in studies of the...

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Life-Cycle Bias and the Returns to Schooling in Current and Lifetime Earnings

Bhuller, Manudeep; Mogstad, Magne; Salvanes, Kjell G. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

This paper uses a unique data set with nearly career-long earnings histories to provide evidence on the returns to schooling in current and lifetime earnings. We use these results to assess the importance of life-cycle bias in earnings regressions using current earnings as a proxy for lifetime...

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