Blar i BI Open på forfatter "Sørensen, Rune Jørgen"
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Parenting styles and school performance: Evidence from second-generation immigrants in Norway
Iversen, Jon Marius Vaag; Bonesrønning, Hans; From, Johan; Sørensen, Rune Jørgen (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)We study the effects of parenting style on students’school performance,assuming that immigrant parents’child-rearing strategies derive fromtheir country of origin. Following Doepke and Zilibotti [2017. Parentingwith style: ... -
Partisan bias, electoral volatility, and government efficiency
Helland, Leif; Sørensen, Rune Jørgen (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)Electoral agency models suggest that government e¢ ciency is better when voters penalize poor performance, and party competition is balanced. Uncertainty in the electoral mechanism dillutes the incentive to produce e¢ ... -
Persistent rent extraction
Helland, Leif; Sørensen, Rune Jørgen (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012)Representative democracy does not necessarily eliminate political corruption. Existing models explain the survival of rent-taking politicians by ideological divisions in the electorate and/or informational asymmetries. The ... -
Political (Over)Representation of Public Sector Employees and the Double-Motive Hypothesis: Evidence from Norwegian Register Data (2007-2019)
Geys, Benny; Murdoch, Zuzana; Sørensen, Rune Jørgen (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Countries have widely diverging regulations regarding the eligibility of public sector employees for political office, and the stringency of such regulations remains fiercely debated. Building on a demand and supply model ... -
Political Alignment and Bureaucratic Pay
Fiva, Jon H.; Geys, Benny; Heggedal, Tom-Reiel; Sørensen, Rune Jørgen (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Building on agency-theoretical perspectives of public bureaucracies, we argue that politician–bureaucrat preference alignment can have important implications for bureaucrats’ pay. We study such private gains to bureaucrats ... -
Political competition, party polarization, and government performance
Sørensen, Rune Jørgen (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)Lack of party competition may impair government efficiency. If the voters are ideologically predisposed to cast their vote in favor of one political party, they may reelect an underperforming incumbent. Party polarization ... -
A Post-politics Earnings Penalty? Evidence from Politicians’ Life-time Income Trajectories (1970-2019)
Geys, Benny; Sørensen, Rune Jørgen (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Politicians are commonly believed to gain financially from holding and/or having held office. We argue that there may often also be economic downsides to pursuing a political career, and investigate whether and when ... -
Public Employees as Elected Politicians: Assessing the Substantive Effects of Passive Representation
Geys, Benny; Murdoch, Zuzana; Sørensen, Rune Jørgen (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)In many countries, public sector employees are eligible to hold political offices during their employment as civil servants. This often triggers conflict-of-interest concerns that elected public employees might sway policies ... -
Public Sector Employment and Voter Turnout
Geys, Benny; Sørensen, Rune Jørgen (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Does working in the public rather than the private sector have a causal effect on electoral participation? Extant evidence using cross-sectional survey data remains unpersuasive due to data limitations and concerns posed ... -
Public-private political cleavage: what happens after retirement?
Rattsø, Jørn; Sørensen, Rune Jørgen (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)Political preferences of public employees differ from those of workers in the private sector. The former are more likely to vote for left-wing parties and orient themselves ideologically towards the left. This political ... -
Regionalization and local hospital closure in Norwegian maternity care: the effect on neonatal and infant mortality
Grytten, Jostein Ivar; Monkerud, Lars Christian; Skau, Irene; Sørensen, Rune Jørgen (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)Objective. To study whether neonatal and infant mortality, after adjustments for differences in case-mix, were independent of the type of hospital in which the delivery was carried out. Data. The Medical Birth Registry ... -
Revenue scarcity and government outsourcing: Empirical evidence from Norwegian local governments
Geys, Benny; Sørensen, Rune Jørgen (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)It is often said that ‘necessity is the mother of invention’. In this article, we assess whether this also applies to the design of public authorities' service provision. In particular, we evaluate whether revenue scarcity ... -
Saving Newborn Babies: The Benefits of Interventions in Neonatal Care in Norway over More Than 40 Years
Grytten, Jostein Ivar; Monkerud, Lars Chr.; Skau, Irene; Eskild, Anne; Sørensen, Rune Jørgen; Saugstad, Ola Didrik (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)The aim of this study was to examine the effect that the introduction of new medical interventions at birth has had on mortality among newborn babies in Norway during the period 1967–2011. During this period, there has ... -
Sentraliseringsparadokset: fører partienes konkurranse om velgeroppslutning til sentralisert kontroll av kommunene?
Sørensen, Rune Jørgen; Vabo, Signy Irene (Research Report, Research report, 2004)Lokaldemokrati og kommunalt selvstyre har blitt underlagt strammere statlig styring, og kommuneinstitusjonen har gradvis blitt et instrument for iverksetting av statlig politikk. Denne trenden er ikke et spesifikt norsk ... -
Statlige selskaper med sektorpolitiske mål: En evaluering av statlig styring
Rattsø, Jørn; Sørensen, Rune Jørgen (Forskningsrapport;14/2011, Research report, 2011)I rapporten analyseres styring og styringsrelasjoner overfor statlige selskaper og forvaltningsorganer med eget styre. Virksomhetene omfatter forretningsorienterte selskaper som selger produkter på markeder med sterk ... -
The impact of hospital revenue on the increase in Caesarean sections in Norway. A panel data analysis of hospitals 1976-2005
Grytten, Jostein Ivar; Monkerud, Lars Christian; Hagen, Terje P.; Sørensen, Rune Jørgen; Eskild, Anne; Skau, Irene (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011)Background: There has been a marked increase in the number of Caesarean sections in many countries during the last decades. In several countries, Caesarean sections are carried out in more than 20 per cent of births. These ... -
The impact of the mass media on obstetricians' behavior in Norway
Grytten, Jostein Ivar; Skau, Irene; Sørensen, Rune Jørgen (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Little is known about how physicians and hospitals respond to the risk of being negatively exposed in the mass media. We assume that newspapers will cover events more closely in the areas where they have most of their ... -
The Impact of Women above the Political Glass Ceiling: Evidence from a Norwegian Executive Gender Quota Reform
Geys, Benny; Sørensen, Rune Jørgen (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Women have historically been underrepresented in democratic assemblies, particularly in top positions with executive powers. Most gender quota reforms address this by mandating a more equal gender representation on election ... -
The Power of Parties: Evidence From Close Municipal Elections in Norway
Fiva, Jon H.; Folke, Olle; Sørensen, Rune Jørgen (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)We show that small shifts in representation can affect policy in proportional election systems. Using data from Norway, we find that a larger left-wing party leads to more property taxation, higher childcare spending, and ... -
Who dies early? Education, mortality and causes of death in Norway
Grytten, Jostein Ivar; Skau, Irene; Sørensen, Rune Jørgen (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)We estimated the effects of education on mortality and causes of death in Norway. We identified causal effects by exploiting the staggered implementation of a school reform that increased the length of compulsory education ...