Research

Feedback and Learning: The Causal Effects of Reversals on Judicial Decision-Making, Review of Economic Studies, forthcoming  (with H. Sigstad).
[Accepted version] [WP March 2024]

Mental Health Consequences of Correctional Sentencing, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, forthcoming  (with L. Khoury & K. V. Løken).
[Accepted version] [WP August 2023]

2SLS with Multiple Treatments, Journal of Econometrics, 242(1), Article 105785, May 2024 (with H. Sigstad).
[Published version] [WP May 2024]

How the Internet Changed the Market for Print Media, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 16(2): 318-358, April 2024 (with T. Havnes, J. McCauley & M. Mogstad).
[Published version] [WP February 2023]

Domestic Violence Reports and the Mental Health and Well-being of Victims and their Children, Journal of Human Resources, 59(S): S152-S186, March 2024 (with G. B. Dahl, K. V. Løken & M. Mogstad).
[Published version] [WP June 2023]

Facts and Fantasies about Wage Setting and Collective Bargaining, Journal of Economic Perspectives, 36(4): 29-52, Fall 2022 (with K. O. Moene, M. Mogstad & O. L. Vestad).
[Published version] [WP September 2022]

Errors and Monotonicity in Judicial Decision-Making, Economics Letters, 215, Article 110486, June 2022 (with H. Sigstad).
[Published version] [WP November 2021]

Signaling and Employer Learning with Instruments, American Economic Review, 112(5): 1669–1702, May 2022 (with G. Aryal & F. Lange).
[Published version] [WP November 2021] 

Surviving a Mass Shooting, Journal of Public Economics, 201, Article 104469, September 2021 (with P. Bharadwaj, K. V. Løken & M. Wentzel).
[Published version] [WP May 2021]

Incarceration, Recidivism, and Employment, Journal of Political Economy, 128(4),1269-1324, April 2020 (with G. B. Dahl, K. V. Løken & M. Mogstad).
[Published version] [WP February 2019]

Intergenerational Effects of Incarceration, AEA Papers and Proceedings, 108, 234-240, May 2018 (with G. B. Dahl, K. V. Løken & M. Mogstad).
[Published version] [WP January 2018]

Life Cycle Earnings, Education Premiums, and Internal Rates of Return, Journal of Labor Economics, 35(4), 993-1030, October 2017 (with M. Mogstad & K. G. Salvanes).
[Published version] [WP June 2014]

Time Aggregation and State Dependence in Welfare Receipt, Economic Journal, 127(604), 1833-1873, September 2017 (with C. N. Brinch & S. Königs).
[Published version] [WP March 2016]

Broadband Internet: An Information Superhighway to Sex Crime? Review of Economic Studies, 80(4), 1237-1266, October 2013 (with T. Havnes, E. Leuven & M. Mogstad).
[Published version] [WP June 2012]

The Distributional Impact of Public Services when Needs Differ, Journal of Public Economics, 94(9-10), 549-562, October 2010 (with R. Aaberge, A. Langørgen & M. Mogstad).
[Published version] [WP May 2010]

The Internet, Search Frictions and Aggregate Unemployment, Review of Economic Studies, revise & resubmit  (2nd round) (with D. Ferraro, A. R. Kostøl & T. C. Vigtel).
[WP February 2023]

Sequential Choices, Option Values, and the Returns to Education, Quantitative Economics, revised & resubmitted  (with P. Eisenhauer & M. Mendel).
[WP July 2024]

Incarceration Spillovers in Criminal and Family Networks (with G. B. Dahl, K. V. Løken & M. Mogstad).
[WP August 2018]

Collective Bargaining, Worker Compensation and Firm Performance (with K. Segiet & O. L. Vestad).

The Pay and Non-Pay Content of Job Ads (with R. Audoly and T. A. Reiremo).

Economic Downturns, Adjustment Costs, and External Labor (with M. Strøm and M. Wentzel).

Measuring the Intergenerational Effects of Incarceration, in Incarceration and Generation, Volume II - Challenging Generational Relations (Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology). (edited by Silvia Gomes, Maria de Carvalho and Vera Duarte), Palgrave Macmillan, 273-309, October 2021 (with G. B. Dahl, K. V. Løken & M. Mogstad).
[Published version]

Policies to Reintegrate Former Inmates Into the Labor Force, in Expanding Economic Opportunities for More Americans. Bipartisan Policies to Increase Work, Wages, and Skills. (edited by Melissa S. Kearney and Amy Ganz), The Aspen Institute - Economic Strategy Group, 128-142, February 2019 (with G. B. Dahl & K. V. Løken).
[Published version]

Nedgang i sysselsettingen fra 2000-2017 — kan endringer i befolkningssammensetningen forklare alt?, Søkelys på arbeidslivet, 37:20-37, May 2020 (with L. Eika).
[Published version]

Fattig i fjor - fattig i år? Tilstandsavhengighet i innvandrerfattigdom, Søkelys på arbeidslivet, 31:3, 209-228, October 2014 (with E. E. Brandsås).
[Published version]

Økonomisk fattigdom blant innvandrere, Søkelys på arbeidslivet, 27:4, 263-290, October 2010 (with R. Aaberge).
[Published version]