Sørensen, Erik Ø.

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Telephone:

+47 559 59436

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+47 559 59543

Title:

Associate professor, dr. oecon.

Nationality:

Norwegian
Personal home page

Teaching languages:

Norwegian, English

Teaching areas/Courses:

Master: Applied econometrics
Doctoral courses: Theory of science

Research:

Labour economics, social preferences, international income measurement

Work in progress:

• "Rich meets poor -- an international fairness experiment". (With Alexander W. Cappelen, Kalle Moene and Bertil Tungodden.)Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper, TI 2008-098/3. Revisions requested by Journal of the European Economic Association.
• "Sectoral Choice with Human Capital and Accumulation of Pension Benefits."
• "The importance of moral reflection and self-reported data in a dictator game with production". (With Alexander W. Cappelen, Astri Drange Hole and Bertil Tungodden.) Revisions requested by Social Choice and Welfare.
• "Measuring unfair (in)equality". (With Ingvild Almås, Alexander W. Cappelen, Jo Thori Lind and Bertil Tungodden.) Revisions requested by Journal of Public Economics.
• "Joint Production at the Workplace: Evidence From Norwegian Establishment Data" September 2005. (With Christopher Ferrall and Kjell G. Salvanes.)
• "Just Luck: An Experimental Study of Risk Taking and Fairness". Discussion Paper 4/10, Department of Economics, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration. (With Alexander W. Cappelen, James Konow and Bertil Tungodden).
• "Fairness and reciprocal behaviour when individuals have rational expectations". (With Alexander W. Cappelen, Knut Nygaard and Bertil Tungodden.)
• "Inter- and intragenerational mobility in earnings and education." (With Kjell G. Salvanes.)
• "Development of fairness preferences in children". (With Ingvild Almås, Alexander W. Cappelen and Bertil Tungodden.)
• "Trusting the untrustworthy". (With Alexander W. Cappelen, Sigbjørn Birkeland and Bertil Tungodden.)
• "Cost-of-living indices for measuring global inequality." (With Ingvild Almås.)

Publications :

• "Responsibility for what? Fairness and individual responsibility" (With Alexander W. Cappelen and Bertil Tungodden). European Economic Review 54(3) 2010, 429-441. 
• "The pluralism of fairness ideals: An experimental approach". (With Alexander W. Cappelen, Astri Drange Hole and Bertil Tungodden), American Economic Review, 97(3), 818-827, 2007.
• "The Neighbourhood is not what it used to be" (With Oddbjørn Raaum and Kjell G. Salvanes), Economic Journal, 116(1), 200-222, 2006.
• "The Impact of a Primary School Reform on Educational Stratification: A Norwegian Study of Neighbour and School Mate Correlations". (With Oddbjørn Raaum and Kjell G. Salvanes), Swedish Economic Policy Review, 10(2), 143-170, 2003.