The Spillover Effect of Dependency

Does children's exposure to parents receiving disability benefits induce a higher probability of receiving such benefits themselves? Using data from Norway, a country where around 10% of the working-age population rely on disability benefits, Øivind Anti Nilsen, in collaboration with Espen Bratberg and Kjell Vaage, has determined that the amount of time that children are exposed to their fathers receiving disability benefits affects their own likelihood of receiving benefits positively. The apparent pattern revealed in the study calls for increased effort in preventing disability retirement, particularly in families with children that are facing long exposure time.

Mr Nilsen's research areas include Labour Economics, Welfare Economics, Macroeconomics and Applied Econometrics, with a particular focus on empirical analyses of firms' behaviour (pricing, investment and labour demand).

Øivind Anti Nilsen is Professor at the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH), having previously taught at the University of Bergen. He studied industrial economics at the Norwegian Institute of Technology (NTH) in Trondheim, where he received his master's degree in 1988. From 1990 to 1992, he studied economics at NHH and received his cand. oecon. degree. In 1998, he also received his doctoral degree from NHH. He is Adjunct Professor at Statistics Norway, IZA Research Fellow, Extramural Fellow at the School of Business and Economics of Maastricht University and is affiliated with the Bergen Center for Competition Law and Economics (BECCLE). He has published in the Review of Economics and Statistics, European Economic Review, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, and Scandinavian Journal of Economics, among others.