N T Borgen
Biographic Data
| ID | 37363 |
|---|---|
| NAME | N T Borgen |
| GIVEN NAMES | N T |
| FAMILY NAME | Borgen |
| SIGNATURE | BORGEN N T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oslo |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7638-3293 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 52 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
How associations between executive function and early academic skills may have been missed
Quantile regression reveals differential effects of children’s executive function. • Self-regulation and working memory show stable links to mathematics. • Working memory predicts vocabulary mainly at low proficiency levels. • Predictive power for phonological awareness shifts across grades and quantiles. • Findings support targeted executive function interventions for low-skill children. This study uses residualized quantile regression modeling …
Who Climbs the Ivory Tower? Social Origins of Academic Faculty in an Egalitarian Welfare State
Although there is an extensive literature on intergenerational mobility in education, including the completion of PhD degrees, far less is known about the transition into academic faculty positions. Here, the authors use administrative microdata following entire birth cohorts born from 1955 to 1985 in Norway, an egalitarian welfare state, to investigate the social origins of academic faculty. Despite publicly funded higher education and competiti…
Maternal education, early language skills, and mother-child interactions across three welfare states
ObjectiveThis study aims to examine the extent to which maternal education-related disparities in child language development in preschool years are mediated by differences in mother-child interaction quality, and whether this mediation varies across different sociopolitical contexts: the U.S., Germany, and Norway.BackgroundSocioeconomic disparities in language development have prompted research to investigate mechanisms underlying early language …
How neighbourhood effects vary by achievement level
After long-standing calls for research into 'for whom' neighbourhood matters, the literature has recently gained traction, focussing on background characteristics such as gender, race, and socioeconomic background. However, there is still scarce and only indirect evidence on whether neighbourhood effects vary by children's academic ability. In this paper, we combine the Neighbourhood Choice Model with quantile regressions to investigate whether n…
Ethnic minorities in disadvantaged neighborhoods
The recent influx of immigrants to affluent Western societies over past decades has spurred a massive political and academic interest in immigrant integration. In this paper, we explore the role of neighborhoods in this integration process using population-wide Norwegian register data. Our findings reveal considerable socioeconomic disparities in neighborhood conditions among children from different immigrant backgrounds, underscoring the unequal…
Socioeconomic differences in the long-term effects of teacher absence on student outcomes
School teachers' sickness absence has been shown to affect student achievement in the short run. However, we know little about whether socioeconomic backgrounds may compensate for reductions in instructional quality and to what extent teacher absence effects persist over time. This paper examines the socioeconomic differences in the short- and long-term effects of teacher absence. We use population-wide Norwegian register data to study the effect…
The gendered division of cognitive household labor, mental load, and family–work conflict in European countries
The unequal division of cognitive labor within households, and its potential association with mental load and stress, has gained substantial interest in recent public and scholarly discussions. We aim to deepen this debate theoretically and empirically. First, going beyond the question of whether the division of cognitive labor is gendered, we connect cognitive household labor with existing stress theories and ask whether men and women typically …
Every tenth child
Every tenth Norwegian child has been in contact with the child welfare services (CWS) before age 18. This paper describes the variation in background characteristics of CWS children with different types of services and their life-course patterns from ages 10 to 25, compared to other children. We use high-quality population-wide Norwegian register data, covering about 860 000 children from birth cohorts 1987–2001, of which roughly 85 000 have rece…
The Counteracting Nature of Contextual Influences
There is currently a mismatch between the theoretical expectations of peer effects held by many scholars and the quantitative empirical literature. This paper contributes to the understanding of peer effects by highlighting the oft-overlooked conceptual distinction between social influences and a well-defined causal effect; peers may influence one another via several potentially contradicting mechanisms that result in small overall causal peer ef…
Quantile regression estimands and models
This paper discusses the crucial but sometimes neglected differences between unconditional quantile regression (UQR) models and quantile treatment effects (QTE) models. We argue that there is a frequent mismatch between the aim of the quantile regression analysis and the quantitative toolkit used in much of the applied literature, including the motherhood wage penalty literature. This mismatch may result in wrong conclusions being drawn from the …
How interactions between ADHD and schools affect educational achievement
BACKGROUND: Children with ADHD tend to achieve less than their peers in school. It is unknown whether schools moderate this association. Nonrandom selection of children into schools related to variations in their ADHD risk poses a methodological problem. METHODS: We linked data on ADHD symptoms of inattention and hyperactivity and parent-child ADHD polygenic scores (PGS) from the Norwegian Mother, Father, and Child Cohort Study (MoBa) to achievem…
Impact of the School Environment on Medical Treatment of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Although attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is among the most heritable psychiatric childhood disorders, social and gene–environment interactions seemingly play an important role in the etiology of ADHD. Consistent with this, this study finds that School-Wide Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (SWPBIS) reduced the likelihood of pharmacotherapeutic treatment for ADHD at age 14–16 by 12%, using population-wide Norwegian reg…
A New Framework for Estimation of Unconditional Quantile Treatment Effects
The opportunities for understanding how treatment effects vary across different segments of the population have led to a rise in the use of quantile regressions for identifying unconditional quantile treatment effects (QTEs). However, existing quantile regression models fall into two categories: those that are unsuitable for identifying unconditional QTEs and those that often struggle with the complex data structures common in sociology and other…
Long-Term Trends in Adult Socio-Economic Resemblance between Former Schoolmates and Neighbouring Children
Schools and residential neighbourhoods constitute key contexts of development beyond the family of origin. Yet, few prior studies address whether the overall impact of these childhood contexts on adult life chances has changed over time. In this article, we investigate changes in socio-economic resemblance between former schoolmates and neighbouring children using Norwegian administrative data covering three decades. We use cross-classified multi…
Horizontal Stratification of Higher Education
Studies typically find large variation in labor market outcomes not only between educational levels, but also among individuals with a higher education. However, the importance of different types of horizontal divisions in higher education is mostly treated in separate literatures. In this paper, we use multilevel models and an outcome-based approach to investigate the relative importance of institution (college), department, and field of study i…
Changes in the Economic Returns to Attending Prestigious Institutions in Norway
The purpose of this paper is to explore whether the returns to attending a prestigious higher education institution have increased in Norway for students who graduated in 1975 to students who graduated in 1999. A handful of published studies find that the returns to attending prestigious institutions have increased in the last decades. However, they all study the USA, which has a decentralized wage bargaining system. The results in this paper she…
College quality and the positive selection hypothesis
College quality and hourly wages
The gendered division of cognitive household labor, mental load, and family–work conflict in European countries
The unequal division of cognitive labor within households, and its potential association with mental load and stress, has gained substantial interest in recent public and scholarly discussions. We aim to deepen this debate theoretically and empirically. First, going beyond the question of whether the division of cognitive labor is gendered, we connect cognitive household labor with existing stress theories and ask whether men and women typically …
Long-Term Trends in Adult Socio-Economic Resemblance between Former Schoolmates and Neighbouring Children
Schools and residential neighbourhoods constitute key contexts of development beyond the family of origin. Yet, few prior studies address whether the overall impact of these childhood contexts on adult life chances has changed over time. In this article, we investigate changes in socio-economic resemblance between former schoolmates and neighbouring children using Norwegian administrative data covering three decades. We use cross-classified multi…
Quantile regression estimands and models
This paper discusses the crucial but sometimes neglected differences between unconditional quantile regression (UQR) models and quantile treatment effects (QTE) models. We argue that there is a frequent mismatch between the aim of the quantile regression analysis and the quantitative toolkit used in much of the applied literature, including the motherhood wage penalty literature. This mismatch may result in wrong conclusions being drawn from the …
College quality and the positive selection hypothesis
The Counteracting Nature of Contextual Influences
There is currently a mismatch between the theoretical expectations of peer effects held by many scholars and the quantitative empirical literature. This paper contributes to the understanding of peer effects by highlighting the oft-overlooked conceptual distinction between social influences and a well-defined causal effect; peers may influence one another via several potentially contradicting mechanisms that result in small overall causal peer ef…
How neighbourhood effects vary by achievement level
After long-standing calls for research into 'for whom' neighbourhood matters, the literature has recently gained traction, focussing on background characteristics such as gender, race, and socioeconomic background. However, there is still scarce and only indirect evidence on whether neighbourhood effects vary by children's academic ability. In this paper, we combine the Neighbourhood Choice Model with quantile regressions to investigate whether n…
Ethnic minorities in disadvantaged neighborhoods
The recent influx of immigrants to affluent Western societies over past decades has spurred a massive political and academic interest in immigrant integration. In this paper, we explore the role of neighborhoods in this integration process using population-wide Norwegian register data. Our findings reveal considerable socioeconomic disparities in neighborhood conditions among children from different immigrant backgrounds, underscoring the unequal…
Socioeconomic differences in the long-term effects of teacher absence on student outcomes
School teachers' sickness absence has been shown to affect student achievement in the short run. However, we know little about whether socioeconomic backgrounds may compensate for reductions in instructional quality and to what extent teacher absence effects persist over time. This paper examines the socioeconomic differences in the short- and long-term effects of teacher absence. We use population-wide Norwegian register data to study the effect…
College quality and hourly wages
College quality and the positive selection hypothesis
College quality and hourly wages
Changes in the Economic Returns to Attending Prestigious Institutions in Norway
The purpose of this paper is to explore whether the returns to attending a prestigious higher education institution have increased in Norway for students who graduated in 1975 to students who graduated in 1999. A handful of published studies find that the returns to attending prestigious institutions have increased in the last decades. However, they all study the USA, which has a decentralized wage bargaining system. The results in this paper she…
Horizontal Stratification of Higher Education
Studies typically find large variation in labor market outcomes not only between educational levels, but also among individuals with a higher education. However, the importance of different types of horizontal divisions in higher education is mostly treated in separate literatures. In this paper, we use multilevel models and an outcome-based approach to investigate the relative importance of institution (college), department, and field of study i…
Long-Term Trends in Adult Socio-Economic Resemblance between Former Schoolmates and Neighbouring Children
Schools and residential neighbourhoods constitute key contexts of development beyond the family of origin. Yet, few prior studies address whether the overall impact of these childhood contexts on adult life chances has changed over time. In this article, we investigate changes in socio-economic resemblance between former schoolmates and neighbouring children using Norwegian administrative data covering three decades. We use cross-classified multi…
Impact of the School Environment on Medical Treatment of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Although attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is among the most heritable psychiatric childhood disorders, social and gene–environment interactions seemingly play an important role in the etiology of ADHD. Consistent with this, this study finds that School-Wide Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (SWPBIS) reduced the likelihood of pharmacotherapeutic treatment for ADHD at age 14–16 by 12%, using population-wide Norwegian reg…
A New Framework for Estimation of Unconditional Quantile Treatment Effects
The opportunities for understanding how treatment effects vary across different segments of the population have led to a rise in the use of quantile regressions for identifying unconditional quantile treatment effects (QTEs). However, existing quantile regression models fall into two categories: those that are unsuitable for identifying unconditional QTEs and those that often struggle with the complex data structures common in sociology and other…
How interactions between ADHD and schools affect educational achievement
BACKGROUND: Children with ADHD tend to achieve less than their peers in school. It is unknown whether schools moderate this association. Nonrandom selection of children into schools related to variations in their ADHD risk poses a methodological problem. METHODS: We linked data on ADHD symptoms of inattention and hyperactivity and parent-child ADHD polygenic scores (PGS) from the Norwegian Mother, Father, and Child Cohort Study (MoBa) to achievem…
Socioeconomic differences in the long-term effects of teacher absence on student outcomes
School teachers' sickness absence has been shown to affect student achievement in the short run. However, we know little about whether socioeconomic backgrounds may compensate for reductions in instructional quality and to what extent teacher absence effects persist over time. This paper examines the socioeconomic differences in the short- and long-term effects of teacher absence. We use population-wide Norwegian register data to study the effect…
The gendered division of cognitive household labor, mental load, and family–work conflict in European countries
The unequal division of cognitive labor within households, and its potential association with mental load and stress, has gained substantial interest in recent public and scholarly discussions. We aim to deepen this debate theoretically and empirically. First, going beyond the question of whether the division of cognitive labor is gendered, we connect cognitive household labor with existing stress theories and ask whether men and women typically …
Every tenth child
Every tenth Norwegian child has been in contact with the child welfare services (CWS) before age 18. This paper describes the variation in background characteristics of CWS children with different types of services and their life-course patterns from ages 10 to 25, compared to other children. We use high-quality population-wide Norwegian register data, covering about 860 000 children from birth cohorts 1987–2001, of which roughly 85 000 have rece…
The Counteracting Nature of Contextual Influences
There is currently a mismatch between the theoretical expectations of peer effects held by many scholars and the quantitative empirical literature. This paper contributes to the understanding of peer effects by highlighting the oft-overlooked conceptual distinction between social influences and a well-defined causal effect; peers may influence one another via several potentially contradicting mechanisms that result in small overall causal peer ef…
Quantile regression estimands and models
This paper discusses the crucial but sometimes neglected differences between unconditional quantile regression (UQR) models and quantile treatment effects (QTE) models. We argue that there is a frequent mismatch between the aim of the quantile regression analysis and the quantitative toolkit used in much of the applied literature, including the motherhood wage penalty literature. This mismatch may result in wrong conclusions being drawn from the …
Who Climbs the Ivory Tower? Social Origins of Academic Faculty in an Egalitarian Welfare State
Although there is an extensive literature on intergenerational mobility in education, including the completion of PhD degrees, far less is known about the transition into academic faculty positions. Here, the authors use administrative microdata following entire birth cohorts born from 1955 to 1985 in Norway, an egalitarian welfare state, to investigate the social origins of academic faculty. Despite publicly funded higher education and competiti…
Maternal education, early language skills, and mother-child interactions across three welfare states
ObjectiveThis study aims to examine the extent to which maternal education-related disparities in child language development in preschool years are mediated by differences in mother-child interaction quality, and whether this mediation varies across different sociopolitical contexts: the U.S., Germany, and Norway.BackgroundSocioeconomic disparities in language development have prompted research to investigate mechanisms underlying early language …
How neighbourhood effects vary by achievement level
After long-standing calls for research into 'for whom' neighbourhood matters, the literature has recently gained traction, focussing on background characteristics such as gender, race, and socioeconomic background. However, there is still scarce and only indirect evidence on whether neighbourhood effects vary by children's academic ability. In this paper, we combine the Neighbourhood Choice Model with quantile regressions to investigate whether n…
Ethnic minorities in disadvantaged neighborhoods
The recent influx of immigrants to affluent Western societies over past decades has spurred a massive political and academic interest in immigrant integration. In this paper, we explore the role of neighborhoods in this integration process using population-wide Norwegian register data. Our findings reveal considerable socioeconomic disparities in neighborhood conditions among children from different immigrant backgrounds, underscoring the unequal…
How associations between executive function and early academic skills may have been missed
Quantile regression reveals differential effects of children’s executive function. • Self-regulation and working memory show stable links to mathematics. • Working memory predicts vocabulary mainly at low proficiency levels. • Predictive power for phonological awareness shifts across grades and quantiles. • Findings support targeted executive function interventions for low-skill children. This study uses residualized quantile regression modeling …
Psychology (11 works) · Economics (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Demographic economics (8 works) · Norwegian (8 works) · Developmental psychology (6 works) · Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality (5 works) · Mathematics (5 works)