Browsing Økonomisk institutt by Author "Lind, Jo Thori"

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  • Call the midwife. Health personnel and mortality in Norway 1887–1920 
    Kotsadam, Andreas; Lind, Jo Thori; Modalsli, Jørgen (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
    At the turn of the twentieth century, Norway, like many other countries, experienced a decrease in mortality and a substantial increase in the number of health personnel. In order to assess how these changes were connected, ...
  • Does permanent income determine the vote? 
    Lind, Jo Thori (Working paper / Arbeidsnotat, 2004)
  • Group Structure and Public Goods Provision in Heterogeneous Societies 
    Lind, Jo Thori (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)
    I consider a society with heterogeneous individuals who can form organizations for the production of a differentiated public good. A decentralized arrangement of organizations is said to be split‐up stable whenever there ...
  • How Do Economists Think? 
    Lind, Jo Thori (Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
    I argue that most economists pay little attention to epistemological considerations and developments in the philosophy of science when doing their research. Consequently, a number of philosophers of science have been ...
  • Hvem bør frykte kunstig intelligens? 
    Lind, Jo Thori (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2001)
    Bruken av kunstig intelligens og automatisering har eksplodert de siste årene. Det har også oppmerksomheten om den. Jeg drøfter hvordan kunstig intelligens og automatisering kan påvirke økonomien generelt og arbeidsmarkedet ...
  • Knowledge is Power: A Theory of Information, Income and Welfare Spending 
    Lind, Jo Thori; Rohner, Dominic (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
    No voters cast their votes based on perfect information, but richer voters are on average best informed. We develop a model where the voting mistakes resulting from low political knowledge reduce the weight of poor voters, ...
  • Quantifying social segregation in large-scale networks 
    Reme, Bjørn-Atle; Kotsadam, Andreas; Bjelland, Johannes; Sundsøy, Pål Roe; Lind, Jo Thori (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
    Abstract We present a measure of social segregation which combines mobile phone data and income register data in Oslo, Norway. In addition to measuring the extent of social segregation, our study shows that social segregation ...
  • Rainy day politics. An instrumental variables approach to the effect of parties on political outcomes. 
    Lind, Jo Thori (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
    Scholars have grappled with the question of how parties affect policy. Here I propose and test an instrumental variable approach using rainfall. In Norwegian municipal elections, potential left wing voters are likely to ...
  • Save the planet or close your eyes? Testing strategic ignorance in a charity context 
    Lind, Jo Thori; Nyborg, Karine; Pauls, Anna (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
    Do people try to avoid unpleasant information about the environmental consequences of their actions? If so, do they react with hostility towards others who provide the unwanted information? Fearing such hostility, do others ...
  • Save the planet or close your eyes? Testing strategic ignorance in a charity context 
    Lind, Jo Thori; Nyborg, Karine; Pauls, Anna (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
    Do people try to avoid unpleasant information about the environmental consequences of their actions? If so, do they react with hostility towards others who provide the unwanted information? Fearing such hostility, do others ...
  • Spurious weather effects 
    Lind, Jo Thori (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
    Rainfall is exogenous to human actions and hence popular as an exogenous source of variation. But it is also spatially correlated. This can generate spurious relationships between rainfall and other spatially correlated ...
  • Why physicians are lousy gatekeepers: Sicklisting decisions when patients have private information on symptoms 
    Carlsen, Benedicte; Lind, Jo Thori; Nyborg, Karine (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
    In social insurance systems that grant workers paid sick leave, physicians act as gatekeepers, supposedly granting sickness certificates to the sick and not to shirkers. Previous research has emphasized the physician's ...