Publications

• Quantifying socio-economic segregation in in large-scale social networks using mobile phone metadata Scientific Reports 12, 6474 (2022) (with J. Bjelland, A. Kotsadam, B.-A. Reme, and P. R. Sundsøy)

• Call the midwife: Health personnel and mortality in Norway 1887-1921 Cliometrica 16: 243–276 (2022)  (with A. Kotsadam and J. Modalsli). Working paper version.

  • Historical data on Health personnel and mortality in Norway 1887-1921. doi:10.18710/0RBMKM

• Why physicians are lousy gatekeepers: Sicklisting decisions when patients have private information on symptoms.  Health Economics 29: 778– 789 (2020)..  (with B. Carlsen and K. Nyborg) Working paper version

• Rainy day politics. An instrumental variables approach to the effect of parties on political outcomes. European Journal of Political Economy 61: 101821 (2020). Working paper version

• Sustaining cooperation through self-sorting: The good, the bad, and the conditional. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116(12): 5299-5304 (2019) (with K. A. Brekke, K. E. Hauge, and K. Nyborg)

• Save the planet or close your eyes? Testing strategic ignorance in a charity context. Ecological Economics 161: 9-19 (2019) (with K. Nyborg and A. Pauls). Working paper version

• Spurious weather effects. Journal of Regional Science 59(2): 322-354 (2019). Working paper version

• How Do Economists Think? In Jaan Valsiner (Ed.): Social Philosophy of Science for the Social Sciences, Springer Nature 2019. 

• Knowledge is power. A theory of  information, income, and welfare spending. Economica, 84(336): 611-46 (with D. Rohner). Working paper version

• Group structure and public goods provision in heterogeneous societies. Journal of Public Economic Theory 19(2): 377-408 (2017). Working paper version

• Opium for the Masses? Conflict-induced narcotics production in Afghanistan. Review of Economics and Statistics 96(5): 949-966 (2014) (with K. Moene and F. Willumsen). Working paper version

• Miserly Developments Journal of Development Studies 47(9): 1332-52 (2011) (with K. Moene). Working paper version

• Are nurses more altruistic than real estate brokers? (with K. Jacobsen, K. Eika, L. Helland, and K. Nyborg) Journal of Economic Psychology 32, 818-31 (2011). Working paper version

• Playing with the Good Guys. A Public Good Game with Endogenous Group Formation Journal of Public Economics 95, 1111-18 (2011)(with K. A. Brekke, K. E. Hauge, and K. Nyborg). Working paper version

• Measuring unfair (in)equality  Journal of Public Economics 95, 488-499 (2011) (with I. Almås, A. W. Cappelen, E. Ø. Sørensen, and B. Tungodden). Working paper version

• Do the rich vote Conservative because they are rich? Review of Economics and Institutions, 1 (2), Article 5 (2010). 

• With or without U? The appropriate test for a U shaped relationship Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics 72(1): 109-18 (2010) (with H. Mehlum). Associated Stata module utest and R package utest

• Religion, welfare state politics, and church-state separation. Journal of Ecumenical Studies 42: 42-52 (2007). (with Daniel L. Chen)

• Fractionalization and the size of government. Journal of Public Economics 91, 51-76 (2007).Working paper version

• Does permanent income determine the vote? B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics: Vol. 7(1) , Article 19 (2007). Working paper version 

• Fractionalization and inter-group differences. Kyklos 60, 123-39 (2007).Working paper version

• Why is there so little redistribution? Nordic Journal of Political Economy 31: 111-125 (2005).

• Repeated surveys and the Kalman filter. The Econometrics Journal 8, 418-27 (2005).Working paper version

• Aggregation of utility and equivalence scales: A solution to the Pangloss critique. Review of Income and Wealth 49 (4), 555-568 (2003). Working paper version. (as Tout est au mieux dans ce meilleur des ménages possibles. The Pangloss critique of equivalence scales)

• Division and Distribution. Three essays on the political economy of redistribution. PhD dissertation, University of Oslo

• The use of household welfare functions to estimate equivalence scales. Documents 2000/16, Statistics Norway. Slightly revised version of my cand. polit. thesis

Publications in Norwegian

• Hvem bør frykte kunstig intelligens? Samfunnsøkonomen 1/2021