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    • Access to treatment and educational inequalities in cancer survival 

      Fiva, Jon H.; Hægeland, Torbjørn; Rønning, Marte; Syse, Astri (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)
      The public health care systems in the Nordic countries provide high quality care almost free of charge to all citizens. However, social inequalities in health persist. Previous research has, for example, documented substantial ...

    • Causal effects of paternity leave on children and parents 

      Cools, Sara; Fiva, Jon H.; Kirkebøen, Lars J. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)
      Reserving a share of the parental leave period for fathers is considered necessary for inducing fathers to take leave, and for men's increased participation in child-rearing. We investigate how a parental leave reform ...

    • Child Penalties in Politics 

      Fiva, Jon H.; King, Max-Emil Mohn (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Women tend to experience a substantial decline in their labour income after their first child is born, while men do not. Do such ‘child penalties’ also exist in the political arena? Using comprehensive administrative data ...

    • Climbing the ranks: incumbency effects in party-list systems 

      Fiva, Jon H.; Røhr, Helene Lie (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      Incumbents tend to have a solid electoral advantage in candidate-centered electoral settings. Do similar incumbency effects exist in more party-centered environments? We estimate incumbency effects in an open-list proportional ...

    • Do re-election probabilities influence public investment? 

      Fiva, Jon H.; Natvik, Gisle J. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)
      An insight from dynamic political economy is that elected officials may use state variables to affect the choices of their successors. We exploit the staggered timing of local and national elections in Norway to investigate ...

    • Local Candidates and Voter Mobilization: Evidence from Historical Two-Round Elections in Norway 

      Fiva, Jon H.; Smith, Daniel M. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      What effect do candidates with local ties have on voter turnout and party support? A considerable challenge within the existing literature on the personal vote, including that part which derives from local ties, is ...

    • Local candidates and voter mobilization: Evidence from historical two-round elections in Norway 

      Fiva, Jon H.; Smith, Daniel M. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      What effect do candidates with local ties have on voter turnout and party support? A considerable challenge within the existing literature on the personal vote, including that part which derives from local ties, is ...

    • Local favoritism in at-large proportional representation systems 

      Fiva, Jon H.; Halse, Askill Harkjerr (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)
      Pork barrel spending is typically attributed to the strategic behavior of political elites hoping to be electorally rewarded by voters residing in their districts. Such behavior is expected to depend on the incentives ...

    • Local favoritism in at-large proportional representation systems 

      Fiva, Jon H.; Halse, Askill H. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)
      Pork barrel spending is typically attributed to the strategic behavior of political elites hoping to be electorally rewarded by voters residing in their districts. Such behavior is expected to depend on the incentives ...

    • Local Representation and Voter Mobilization in Closed-list Proportional Representation Systems 

      Fiva, Jon H.; Halse, Askill Harkjerr; Smith, Daniel Markham (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      We investigate whether geographic representation affects local voting behavior in closed-list proportional representation (PR) systems, where conventional theoretical wisdom suggests a limited role of localism in voter ...

    • Mechanical and psychological effects of electoral reform 

      Fiva, Jon H.; Folke, Olle (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)
      To understand how electoral reform affects political outcomes, one needs to assess its total effect, incorporating how the reform affects the outcomes given the political status quo (the mechanical effects) and the additional ...

    • Mechanical and psychological effects of electoral reform 

      Fiva, Jon H.; Folke, Olle (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)
      To understand how electoral reform affects political outcomes, one needs to assess its total effect, incorporating how the reform affects the outcomes given the political status quo (the mechanical effects) and the additional ...

    • Moral hazard in electoral teams: List rank and campaign effort 

      Cox, Gary W.; Fiva, Jon H.; Smith, Daniel M.; Sørensen, Rune Jørgen (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      How do parties motivate candidates to exert effort in closed-list elections, where seat outcomes are uncertain only for candidates in marginal list positions? We argue that parties can solve this moral hazard problem by ...

    • Moral hazard in electoral teams: List rank and campaign effort 

      Fiva, Jon H.; Sørensen, Rune Jørgen; Cox, Gary W.; Smith, Daniel M. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      How do parties motivate candidates to exert effort in closed-list elections, where seat outcomes are uncertain only for candidates in marginal list positions? We argue that parties can solve this moral hazard problem by ...

    • Norwegian parliamentary elections, 1906-2013: Representation and turnout across four electoral systems 

      Fiva, Jon H.; Smith, Daniel M. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      Since gaining full independence in 1905, Norway has experienced more than a century of democratic elections, and has reformed its electoral system three times, most notably with the switch from a two-round runoff system ...

    • Norwegian parliamentary elections, 1906?2013: representation and turnout across four electoral systems 

      Fiva, Jon H.; Smith, Daniel M. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      Since gaining full independence in 1905, Norway has experienced more than a century of democratic elections, and has reformed its electoral system three times, most notably with the switch from a two-round runoff system ...

    • Parties, Legislators, and the Origins of Proportional Representation 

      Cox, Gary W.; Fiva, Jon H.; Smith, Daniel M. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      A prominent line of theories holds that proportional representation (PR) was introduced in many European democracies by a fragmented bloc of conservative parties seeking to preserve their legislative seat shares after ...

    • 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 dynasties and the incumbency advantage in party-centered environments 

      Fiva, Jon H.; Smith, Daniel M. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      A handful of recent studies have investigated the causal effect of incumbency on dynasty formation in candidate-centered electoral contexts. We use candidate-level data and a regression discontinuity design to estimate the ...

    • Seniority-Based Nominations and Political Careers 

      Cirone, Alexandra; Cox, Gary W.; Fiva, Jon H. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      This paper investigates party use of seniority systems to allocate nominations for elected and appointed offices. Such systems, which can regulate party members’ access to offices at multiple levels of their careers, are ...