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Oddbjørn Raaum

Oddbjørn Raaum

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Economics and Finance

D-Index
37
Citations
5258
World Ranking
2698
National Ranking
18

Overview

Oddbjørn Raaum is affiliated with the University of Oslo in Norway. Their research primarily falls within the social sciences, with a total of 24 publications across this broad field. Their work spans several subfields, including education, economics and econometrics, sociology and political science, gender studies, and clinical psychology.

Raaum's research topics cover a diverse range of areas. Key topics include education systems and policy, migration and labor dynamics, gender, labor, and family dynamics, school choice and performance, electric vehicles and infrastructure, energy, environment, and transportation policies, as well as child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development.

The scientist has authored papers published in several venues. Frequent publication platforms include:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Prevention Science
  • Journal of Education and Work
  • Labour Economics
  • British Journal of Political Science

Selected recent papers by Oddbjørn Raaum include:

  • The Potential of Anti-Bullying Efforts to Prevent Academic Failure and Youth Crime. A Case Using the Olweus Bullying Prevention Program (OBPP), 2021, Prevention Science
  • Economic returns to adult vocational qualifications, 2020, Journal of Education and Work
  • Immigrant Responses to Social Insurance Generosity, 2020, Labour Economics
  • Birth Order and Voter Turnout, 2020, British Journal of Political Science
  • Impact of the School Environment on Medical Treatment of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: A Population-Wide Register Data Study of School-Wide Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports, 2021, Child Development

In addition to journal papers, Raaum has contributed to book publications. One such work is Integrating Immigrants into the Nordic Labour Markets: The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, published in 2021 by the Nordic Council of Ministers eBooks.

The scientist collaborates regularly with several frequent coauthors, which include:

  • Bernt Bratsberg
  • Nicolai T. Borgen
  • Simen Markussen
  • Andreas Kotsadam
  • Askill Harkjerr Halse

Best Publications

  • American Exceptionalism in a New Light: A Comparison of Intergenerational Earnings Mobility in the Nordic Countries, the United Kingdom and the United States

    Markus Jantti;Bernt Bratsberg;Bernt Bratsberg;Knut Roed;Oddbjorn Raaum

  • Nonlinearities in Intergenerational Earnings Mobility: Consequences for Cross-Country Comparisons

    Bernt Bratsberg;Knut Røed;Oddbjørn Raaum;Robin Naylor

  • Brother correlations in earnings in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden compared to the United States

    Anders Björklund;Tor Eriksson;Markus Jäntti;Oddbjörn Raaum

  • Immigrants, Labour Market Performance and Social Insurance

    Bernt Bratsberg;Oddbjørn Raaum;Knut Røed

  • Identifying Earnings Assimilation of Immigrants under Changing Macroeconomic Conditions

    Erling Barth;Bernt Bratsberg;Oddbjørn Raaum

  • Immigration and Wages: Evidence from Construction*

    Bernt Bratsberg;Oddbjørn Raaum

  • Do Business Cycle Conditions at the Time of Labor Market Entry Affect Future Employment Prospects

    Oddbjørn Raaum;Knut Røed

  • When Minority Labor Migrants Meet the Welfare State

    Bernt Bratsberg;Oddbjørn Raaum;Knut Røed

  • The Neighbourhood is Not What it Used to be

    Oddbjørn Raaum;Kjell G. Salvanes;Erik Ø. Sørensen

  • Immigrant Labor Market Integration across Admission Classes

    Bernt Bratsberg;Oddbjørn Raaum;Knut Røed

  • Nonlinearities in Intergenerational Earnings Mobility: Consequences for Cross-Country Comparisons

    Bernt Bratsberg;Knut Røed;Oddbjørn Raaum;Robin Naylor

  • Marital sorting, household labor supply, and intergenerational earnings mobility across countries

    Oddbjørn Raaum;Bernt Bratsberg;Knut Røed;Eva Österbacka

  • Local Unemployment and the Relative Wages of Immigrants: Evidence from the Current Population Surveys

    Bernt Bratsberg;Erling Barth;Oddbjørn Raaum

  • The First Weeks of the Coronavirus Crisis: Who Got Hit, When and Why? Evidence from Norway

    Annette Alstadsæter;Bernt Bratsberg;Gaute Eielsen;Wojciech Kopczuk

  • Earnings assimilation of immigrants in Norway – A reappraisal

    Pit I Longva;Oddbjorn Raaum

  • Administrative registers ¿ Unexplored reservoirs of Scientific Knowledge?

    Knut Røed;Oddbjørn Raaum

  • Who pays for performance

    Erling Barth;Bernt Bratsberg;Torbjørn Hægeland;Oddbjørn Raaum

  • Educating Children of Immigrants: Closing the Gap in Norwegian Schools

    Bernt Bratsberg;Oddbjørn Raaum;Knut Røed

  • Immigrant wage profiles within and between establishments

    Erling Barth;Bernt Bratsberg;Oddbjørn Raaum

  • American exceptionalism in a new light : a comparison of intergenerational earnings mobility in the Nordic countries, the United Kingdom and the United States

    Markus Jäntti;Bernt Bratsberg;Knut Røed;Oddbjørn Raaum

  • Who goes electric? The anatomy of electric car ownership in Norway

    Elisabeth Fevang;Erik Figenbaum;Lasse Fridstrøm;Askill H. Halse

  • Brother Correlations in Earnings in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden Compared to the United States

    Anders Bjorklund;Anders Bjorklund;Tor Eriksson;Markus Jantti;Eva Osterbacka

Frequent Co-Authors

Bernt Bratsberg
Bernt Bratsberg University of Oslo
Robin Naylor
Robin Naylor University of Warwick
Kjell G. Salvanes
Kjell G. Salvanes Norwegian School of Economics
Markus Jäntti
Markus Jäntti Stockholm University
Anders Björklund
Anders Björklund Lund University
Wojciech Kopczuk
Wojciech Kopczuk Columbia University
Donna Cross
Donna Cross Telethon Kids Institute
Dan Olweus
Dan Olweus University of Bergen
Lars Calmfors
Lars Calmfors Research Institute of Industrial Economics

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