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Does Empowering Women in Politics Boost Human Development? An Empirical Analysis, 1960–2018
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Does Ethnic Diversity Increase Violent Crime? A Global Analysis of Homicide Rates, 1995-2013.
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Many scholars argue that diverse preferences and coordination failure stemming from high ethnic diversity results in high social frictions, leading to socio-political failure. Criminological theories suggest that crime is ... -
Does Foreign Direct Investment by Multinational Corporations Increase Interpersonal Violence in Host Countries? A Cross-National Analysis of 170 Countries, 1990-2019
(Master thesis, 2023)Denne oppgaven undersøker den empiriske årsakssammenhengen mellom direkte utenlandsinvesteringer (FDI) målt i investeringsstrøm og investeringsbeholdning til interpersonell vold målt i drapsrater ved bruk av data fra 170 ... -
Does Foreign Direct Investment Encourage State Militarization and Reduce Societal Security? An Empirical Test, 1980-2017
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Scholars debate the effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) on poor societies. Apparently, FDI could embolden governments to securitize rather than reform, an argument put forth recently by (Kishi, Roudabeh, Maggio, ... -
Does free-market capitalism drive unequal access to health? An empirical analysis, 1970–2015
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Many scholars, particularly in public health, argue that neoliberal capitalist economic forces adversely affect communities by increasing inequalities, ultimately affecting health. Apparently, corporate capitalism affects ... -
Does globalization promote or hinder sustainability?: an empirical analysis
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Does Immigration Hurt Social Capital?
(Master thesis, 2022)Resultatene fra tidligere studier basert på effekten av immigrasjon på sosial kapital er inkonsistente. Immigrasjon har også vist seg å ha ulik effekt på forskjellige aspekter ved sosial kapital. For å studere effekten av ... -
Does Individual Health Have Implications for Individuals’ Attitudes towards Minority Groups? A Case Study from the Greek Population
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Immunological defence against pathogens and behavioural responses to members of other ethnic or racial groups may be understood as co-evolved solutions to a commonly recurring adaptive problem in our ancestral environment: ... -
Does international labour migration affect internal mobility in rural Norway?
(Chapter, 2020)Since the enlargement of the European Union, which began in 2004, large numbers of international labour migrants have arrived and settled in Norway. Also, many rural areas, previously unfamiliar with international migration, ... -
Does International Media Attention Matter?
(Master thesis, 2020)I denne masteroppgaven undersøker jeg om internasjonal medieoppmerksomhet har en effekt på utfallet av ikke-voldelige kampanjer. forskningsspørsmålet lyder som følger: Hva er effekten av internasjonal tradisjonell mediedekning ... -
Does intra-EU migration aggravate economic inequality? A multiple case study on the effects of intra-EU migration on real wage growth in wealthier and poorer member states
(Master thesis, 2017)Tidligere forskning på virkningen av fri migrasjon innad i den Europeiske Union på lønnsnivå i ulike segment av arbeidsstyrken har for det meste fokusert på enkelte medlemsland og segment av arbeidsstyrken. Denne oppgaven ... -
Does military technology increase the likelihood of war? : new precision and information technology and the future prospect of great-power war between the People's Republic of China and the United States
(Master thesis, 2015)In this thesis I test whether the implementation of new military technology, which is based on precision and information, leads to a shift in the offense-defense balance to where the offense dominance is heightened, making ... -
Does Norwegian aid have an effect on the recipient country's equality of access to health and education? An empirical analysis, 1960-2019.
(Bachelor thesis, 2020)Effektiviteten av bistand har vært en debatt i kontinuerlig utvikling uten varige enigheter blant forskere og beslutningstakere. Forskning har vist motstridende resultater og splittet diskusjonen om bistand inn i pessimister ... -
Does Norwegian aid promote good governance in recipient countries? : an empirical analysis, 1985-2013
(Master thesis, 2016)Denne masteroppgaven ser på effekten norsk bistand har på korrupsjonsbekjempelse i utviklingsland. Økonomer har tidligere vært mest opptatt av bistandseffektivitet, mens statsvitere på sin side har vært mest opptatt av ... -
Does Norwegian aid reduce bad governance? - Assessing the effects of Norwegian aid on political corruption and government respect for human rights in developing countries, 1980-2018
(Master thesis, 2020)Abstract The effectiveness of aid is heatedly debated in academia and policy circles. Annually, billions of dollars are transferred from industrialized countries to developing countries, both out of altruistic and more ... -
Does politics matter? Explaining swings in wind power installations
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)This is a social science article on the politics of wind power, and on whether or not politics actually matters. While it may seem obvious that politics actually does, I argue that the arguments that we encounter about ... -
Does social globalisation through access to information communication technologies drive obesity among youth? An empirical analysis, 1990–2013
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Scholars debate the effects of globalisation on obesity. Using the latest data on access to ICTs and the Global Burden of Disease data on excess weight gain and obesity, we find that both social globalisation and access ... -
Does the EU Emissions Trading Scheme Work? The case of E.ON
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Does the platform matter? Social media and COVID-19 conspiracy theory beliefs in 17 countries
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)While the role of social media in the spread of conspiracy theories has received much attention, a key deficit in previous research is the lack of distinction between different types of platforms. This study places the ...