Browsing NTNU Open by Author "Bensnes, Simon Søbstad"
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Earning or Learning? How Extending Closing Time in the Retail Sector Affects Youth Employment and Education
Bensnes, Simon Søbstad; Strøm, Bjarne (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)This paper estimates the causal impact of increased demand for low‐skilled workers on youth employment, and short and long run education. We exploit quasi‐experimental demand shifts for retail workers due to changes in ... -
Earning or Learning? How Extending Closing Time in the Retail Sector Affects Youth Employment and Education
Bensnes, Simon Søbstad; Strøm, Bjarne (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)This paper estimates the causal impact of increased demand for low‐skilled workers on youth employment, and short and long run education. We exploit quasi‐experimental demand shifts for retail workers due to changes in ... -
Scheduled to Gain: Short- and Longer-Run Educational Effects of Examination Scheduling
Bensnes, Simon Søbstad (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)In this paper, I present findings concerning the effect of examination scheduling on high‐stakes exam scores and longer‐run outcomes. I show that random variations in examination schedules, which increase the time students ... -
Three Essays on the Economics of Education in Upper Secondary Schooling
Bensnes, Simon Søbstad (Doctoral theses at NTNU;2017:162, Doctoral thesis, 2017)The thesis is a collection of three papers on the economics of education. All three use administrative data from Norwegian upper secondary education. The papers all take advantage of quasi-experimental variation to assess ...