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Growth, Development and Land-Use in a Simple Agrarian Economy with Endogeneous Population [PDF]
, 2003 The paper analyses the relation between demographic transformation, agricultural transformation and land-use pressure within a simple agrarian economy where population is treated both as a cause and consequence of economic changes.
Solstad, Jan Tore, Skonhoft, Anders
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Estimating the Elasticity of Labour Supply to an Enterprise Utilizing a Quasi-Natural Experiment [PDF]
, 2003 This paper utilizes institutional features to identify the supply of labour directed towards individual enterprises. The labour market for Norwegian teachers is characterized by a high degree of central regulations.
Falch, Torberg
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The economics of a stage-structured wildlife population model
, 2005 A simple three-stage model of the Scandinavian moose (Alces alces) (young, adult female and adult male) is formulated. Fecundity is density dependent while mortality is density independent. Two different harvesting regimes are explored: hunting for meat,
Skonhoft, Anders, Olaussen, Jon Olaf
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Property taxation as incentive for cost control: Empirical evidence for utility services in Norway. [PDF]
, 2006 Recent theoretical research suggests that property taxation has incentive effects that can help control cost problems in the public sector. The institutional setting in Norway allows this first empirical investigation of the incentive effect of property ...
Borge, Lars-Erik, Rattsø, Jørn
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Aktiv eller nøytral? – Retorikk og realiteter i næringspolitikken
Magma, 2006 Paul Chaffey
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The Bioeconomics of Controlling an African Rodent Pest Species [PDF]
, 2003 The paper treats the economy of controlling an African pest rodent, the multimammate rat, causing major damage in maize production. An ecological population model is presented and used as a basis for the economic analyses carried out at the village level
Stenseth, Nils Chr. +4 more
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The effect of education on cognitive ability [PDF]
, 2006 We analyze whether the amount of schooling influences intelligence as measured by IQ tests. By use of a novel longitudinal dataset we are able to condition on early cognitive ability to account for selection into non-compulsory schooling when estimating ...
Falch, Torberg, Sandgren, Sofia
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