Jo Thori Lind
Biographic Data
| ID | 5737405 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jo Thori Lind |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jo Thori |
| FAMILY NAME | Lind |
| SIGNATURE | LIND J T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oslo |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2980-3814 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Early-life death of a sibling and primary care utilisation during middle age: A population-wide cohort study
BACKGROUND: The death of a family member has been linked to higher mortality for those grieving. However, much less is known about different types of health problems of the surviving sibling during middle age. METHODS: Individual-level register data on all Norwegian residents born between 1969 and 1979 were linked to cause-specific primary care utilisation between 2015 and 2019. Incidence rate ratios (IRRs) of different types of health conditions…
Call the midwife. Health personnel and mortality in Norway 1887–1920
At the turn of the twentieth century, Norway, like many other countries, experienced a decrease in mortality and a substantial increase in the number of health personnel. In order to assess how these changes were connected, we investigate the relationship between health personnel and mortality using data at the medical district level ( $$N=106$$ N = 106 ) covering a period of 34 years. We find a large and robust effect of midwives on reduced mate…
Rainy day politics. An instrumental variables approach to the effect of parties on political outcomes
Rain affects electoral turnout both through a direct effect on the cost of voting and by changing the opportunity cost. In a panel of Norwegian municipalities I find that rain on Election Day increases turnout. As turnout affects electoral outcomes, rain provides an exogeneous source of variation, and hence an instrument, for the party composition of the municipal council. I use this to estimate the causal effect of party composition on politics.…
Save the planet or close your eyes? Testing strategic ignorance in a charity context
Knowledge is Power: A Theory of Information, Income and Welfare Spending
No voters cast their votes based on perfect information, but richer voters are on average best informed. We develop a model where the voting mistakes resulting from low political knowledge reduce the weight of poor voters, and cause parties to choose political platforms that are better aligned with the preferences of rich voters. In US election survey data, income is more important in affecting voting behaviour for more informed voters than for l…
Opium for the Masses? Conflict-Induced Narcotics Production in Afghanistan
To explain the rise in Afghan opium production, we explore how rising conflicts change the incentives of farmers. Conflicts make illegal opportunities more profitable as they increase the perceived lawlessness and destroy infrastructure crucial to alternative crops. Exploiting a unique data set, we show that Western hostile casualties, our proxy for conflict, have a strong impact on subsequent local opium production. Using the period after the pl…
Torbjörn Bergman og Kaare Strøm (red.): The Madisonian Turn. Political Parties and Parliamentary Democracy in Nordic Europe
Miserly Developments
We measure the level of poverty in the midst of affluence using what we denote the miser index. We calculate the index of poverty-induced polarisation for a number of countries. The most miserly countries are in Southern Africa and Latin America. Miserly countries tend to be socially fractionalised, bureaucratically inefficient, and politically corrupt. They provide low levels of healthcare and education. Considering the world as a single entity,…
Are nurses more altruistic than real estate brokers
With or Without U? The Appropriate Test for a U-Shaped Relationship: Practitionersâ Corner
Nonlinear relationships are common in economic theory, and such relationships are also frequently tested empirically. We argue that the usual test of nonlinear relationships is flawed and derive the appropriate test for a U-shaped relationship. Our test gives the exact necessary and sufficient conditions for the test of a U shape in finite samples in a large class of models.
Book Notes
Save the planet or close your eyes? Testing strategic ignorance in a charity context
Knowledge is Power: A Theory of Information, Income and Welfare Spending
No voters cast their votes based on perfect information, but richer voters are on average best informed. We develop a model where the voting mistakes resulting from low political knowledge reduce the weight of poor voters, and cause parties to choose political platforms that are better aligned with the preferences of rich voters. In US election survey data, income is more important in affecting voting behaviour for more informed voters than for l…
Are nurses more altruistic than real estate brokers
Book Notes
With or Without U? The Appropriate Test for a U-Shaped Relationship: Practitionersâ Corner
Nonlinear relationships are common in economic theory, and such relationships are also frequently tested empirically. We argue that the usual test of nonlinear relationships is flawed and derive the appropriate test for a U-shaped relationship. Our test gives the exact necessary and sufficient conditions for the test of a U shape in finite samples in a large class of models.
Miserly Developments
We measure the level of poverty in the midst of affluence using what we denote the miser index. We calculate the index of poverty-induced polarisation for a number of countries. The most miserly countries are in Southern Africa and Latin America. Miserly countries tend to be socially fractionalised, bureaucratically inefficient, and politically corrupt. They provide low levels of healthcare and education. Considering the world as a single entity,…
Are nurses more altruistic than real estate brokers
Torbjörn Bergman og Kaare Strøm (red.): The Madisonian Turn. Political Parties and Parliamentary Democracy in Nordic Europe
Opium for the Masses? Conflict-Induced Narcotics Production in Afghanistan
To explain the rise in Afghan opium production, we explore how rising conflicts change the incentives of farmers. Conflicts make illegal opportunities more profitable as they increase the perceived lawlessness and destroy infrastructure crucial to alternative crops. Exploiting a unique data set, we show that Western hostile casualties, our proxy for conflict, have a strong impact on subsequent local opium production. Using the period after the pl…
Knowledge is Power: A Theory of Information, Income and Welfare Spending
No voters cast their votes based on perfect information, but richer voters are on average best informed. We develop a model where the voting mistakes resulting from low political knowledge reduce the weight of poor voters, and cause parties to choose political platforms that are better aligned with the preferences of rich voters. In US election survey data, income is more important in affecting voting behaviour for more informed voters than for l…
Save the planet or close your eyes? Testing strategic ignorance in a charity context
Rainy day politics. An instrumental variables approach to the effect of parties on political outcomes
Rain affects electoral turnout both through a direct effect on the cost of voting and by changing the opportunity cost. In a panel of Norwegian municipalities I find that rain on Election Day increases turnout. As turnout affects electoral outcomes, rain provides an exogeneous source of variation, and hence an instrument, for the party composition of the municipal council. I use this to estimate the causal effect of party composition on politics.…
Call the midwife. Health personnel and mortality in Norway 1887–1920
At the turn of the twentieth century, Norway, like many other countries, experienced a decrease in mortality and a substantial increase in the number of health personnel. In order to assess how these changes were connected, we investigate the relationship between health personnel and mortality using data at the medical district level ( $$N=106$$ N = 106 ) covering a period of 34 years. We find a large and robust effect of midwives on reduced mate…
Early-life death of a sibling and primary care utilisation during middle age: A population-wide cohort study
BACKGROUND: The death of a family member has been linked to higher mortality for those grieving. However, much less is known about different types of health problems of the surviving sibling during middle age. METHODS: Individual-level register data on all Norwegian residents born between 1969 and 1979 were linked to cause-specific primary care utilisation between 2015 and 2019. Incidence rate ratios (IRRs) of different types of health conditions…
Law (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Politics (5 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Geography (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Culture, Economy, and Development Studies (2 works) · Demography (2 works)