Andreas Fidjeland

Biographic Data

ID2821201
NAMEAndreas Fidjeland
GIVEN NAMESAndreas
FAMILY NAMEFidjeland
SIGNATUREFIDJELAND A
AFFILIATIONSNordic Institute for Studies in Innovation, Research and Education
ORCID0009-0005-7769-6266
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS5
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR5
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2015
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX0

  • Effects of compressed work schedules on sickness absence

    Open AccessElisabeth Fevang, Andreas Fidjeland et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2026

  • Sticky places

    Open AccessAndreas Fidjeland, Tora Knutsen et al.ARTICLEJournal of Urban Economics2026References: 31

  • Do mergers in higher education influence student applications

    Open AccessAndreas Fidjeland, Tora Knutsen et al.ARTICLEStudies in Higher Education2025

    Mergers and consolidations among higher education institutions (HEIs) have become increasingly common in recent decades. In this paper, we use a Norwegian reform to examine whether mergers between HEIs affect their competitiveness in attracting prospective students. The reform reduced the number of public HEIs from 32 to 21, with many colleges gaining university status through mergers. We use a synthetic control approach to assess the impact of t…

  • Using high-stakes grades to incentivize learning

    Open AccessAndreas FidjelandARTICLEEconomics of Education Review2023

    I use a natural experiment in Norwegian high school to investigate how high-stakes grades affect students’ investment in schooling. By exploiting variation across space and time I compare the performance of students taking the same exit exam in compulsory school, but where the test is high-stakes for only a subset of students. Using a staggered triple-difference framework, I find that exam grades increase in the high-stakes setting if students ha…

  • Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning

    Open AccessVolodymyr Mnih, Koray Kavukcuoglu et al.ARTICLENature2015