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NHH is pleased to announce vacancies in the PhD specialisation in Economics. You’ll become part of a large international research team working on a wide range of exciting topics in labour, behavioural and development economics.
Paper submissions for the EALE Conference 2024 in Bergen, Norway, are now open! Submission Deadline is February 1, 2024. The event will take place at the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH) from 5-7 September 2024, organized by FAIR NHH.
New publication by Kjell G. Salvanes in the Journal of Economic Literature titled "What Drives Intergenerational Mobility? The Role of Family, Neighborhood, Education, and Social Class: A Review of Bukodi and Goldthorpe's Social Mobility and Education in Britain".
The Grimen Lecture is a tribute to Professor Harald Grimen, a leading Norwegian philosopher of his generation, exploring topics aligned with his legacy. Bertil will delve into how moral motivation influences our economic decisions.
FAIR Insight Team søker i samarbeid med SNF etter en studentassistent til et pågående forskningsprosjekt om karriereutvikling (NFR-Prosjektnummer 335448).
Ingrid Hoem Sjursen's paper, "Accountability and taxation: Experimental evidence," published in the esteemed Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, explores the intricate relationship between taxation and government transparency.
We seek an exceptional Research Data Manager to play a pivotal role in enhancing our research data infrastructure and consolidating our position as a Norwegian Centre of Excellence.
This new study published in Games and Economic Behavior measures the economic decision-making abilities of students from the U.S. and Tanzania and its implications for economic development.
Promising young FAIR researcher Ingar Haaland, in collaboration with Chris Roth and Felix Chopra, received an 8 million kroner grant from The Research Council of Norway for their project, "Media Bias and Political Polarization."
FAIR NHH and Rady School of Management invite you to the 9th Spring School at UC San Diego from 11 - 14 March 2024!
This new Coffee with... episode features Professor Oriana Bandiera. She dives into the significance of selecting a research topic driven by genuine interest and the cycle of poverty.
Claudia Goldin is this year's winner of the Nobel Prize in economics. She received the prize for her work in improving our understanding of gender differences in labor force participation and wages.
Join us for an online workshop showcasing new research from emerging scholars who dive into the complexities of the moral mind. Hosted by FAIR and chaired by Bertil Tungodden.
In this new Coffee with... episode, Professor Janet Currie addresses the critical issue of pollution's impact on health, with a specific focus on racial disparities.
The 13th edition of the conference Economics of Global Interactions takes place in Bari, Italy, on September 11-12. The conference is organized by FAIR-affiliated researcher Nicola D. Coniglio and FAIR researcher Kjetil Bjorvatn.
Paper submissions are now being accepted for the online workshop of 2023!
We are proud to announce a new publication by Alexander Cappelen, Cornelius Cappelen, and Bertil Tungodden in the renowned American Economic Review. The paper contributes valuable insights to the field of economics by examining individuals' fairness preferences within second-best scenarios.
Ingar K. Haaland and his co-authors have a new publication in The Economic Journal. In their paper titled "The Null Result Penalty," they uncover a common bias in how research is looked at.
New publication in the Journal of Public Economics by Vincent Somville and his co-authors titled "Does wealth reduce support for redistribution? Evidence from an Ethiopian housing lottery".
"Through enthusiasm and dedication, Kjetil Bjorvatn has managed to transform one of the major mandatory bachelor courses into an outstanding example of how diverse modern pedagogy can be."
In this Coffee with... episode, Joe Henrich challenges the representation of European descent populations in studies, explores the role of genes in cultural evolution, and emphasizes interdisciplinary collaboration in research.
The paper titled "Experimental Research on Retirement Decision-Making: Evidence from Replications" by Xiaogeng Xu, Andre Lot, and their co-authors has been published in the Journal of Banking & Finance.
We are excited to share the news that Adriana Condarco-Quesada is our new Head of Administration at FAIR! With her wealth of experience and dedication, we have no doubt that she will excel in her new role as Head of Administration. Let's give her a warm welcome!
New working paper from Björn Bartling, Alexander W. Cappelen, Henning Hermes, Marit Skivenes and Bertil Tungodden is out! The research sheds light on attitudes toward paternalistic policies and the broad support for soft interventions in the general population in the United States.
Check out the virtual video coverage of Alexander L.P. Willén and Jonas Tungodden's recent paper "When Parents Decide: Gender Differences in Competitiveness", which has been published in the Journal of Political Economy.
In this episode of Coffee with... Kjell G. Salvanes sits down with James Heckman (Nobel Prize laureate and Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago).
New working paper from Alexander W. Cappelen and Bertil Tungodden published in NBER! The research sheds light on the importance of understanding actual and perceived gender norms in society, using nationally representative datasets from 60 countries, covering over 80% of the world's population.
FAIR Insight Team invites you to the twelfth episode of "Coffee with...". In this interview with Orazio Attanasio and Kjetil Bjorvatn, Attanasio shares his insights on how to use data on subjective expectations on future income and how researchers rather than assuming something about the relationship between people - for example - income and people's expectations on their future income, they ask them directly.
The FAIR Annual Report 2022 is now available online. You can read it in full length here, alongside a statement from Centre Director Bertil Tungodden.
We are looking for a new Head of Administration who can take overall responsibility for the administration at FAIR and deliver excellent on our objectives.
On today’s International Women’s Day, we celebrate our community of female researchers! Today we recognize women's social, economic, cultural, and political achievements and raise awareness about gender equality and women's rights.
Researchers are always looking for new ways to test economic theories and answer policy-relevant questions. Ingar Haaland, along with Christopher Roth and Johannes Wohlfart, has contributed to this effort by exploring the use of information provision experiments.
We invite you to a Ph.D. Course in Behavioral Economics with Shachar Kariv titled "Confronting Decision Theory with Experimental Data and Vice Versa". The course is organized by Alexander W. Cappelen and Bertil Tungodden.
We invite applications for the position of three pre-doctoral fellows at FAIR/ the Department of Economics at The Norwegian School of Economics. The Centre is a unique platform for collaboration between the Centre for Empirical Labor Economics and The Choice Lab.
We are hiring a Higher Executive Officer to join our administration team. We are looking for someone who thrives in a vibrant, international working environment and who is good at building relationships.
A new paper by Ingar K. Haaland titled "Justifying Dissent" published in The Quarterly Journal of Economics highlights both the power of rationales and their limitations in enabling dissent and shed light on phenomena such as social movements, political correctness, propaganda, and antiminority behavior.
FAIR Insight Team invites you to the eleventh episode of "Coffee with...". In this video, you can see Professor Aline Bütikofer and Ghazala Azmat talk about the presentation she gave at the FAIR Midway Conference in June last year on "Information and Communications Technology (ICT) and Student Performance".
A new paper published in the Journal of African Economies shows that village savings and loan field experiments increased economic and social empowerment and general well-being. Paper by Kjetil Bjorvatn and Bertil Tungodden.
You’ll become part of a large international research team working on a wide range of exciting topics in labor economics, behavioral economics, and development economics. There are both general PhD positions and one PhD position connected to the interdisciplinary project “Freedom to Choose” at the Department of Economics where FAIR is located. Application deadline: 15 January 2023.
We invite you to the online workshop "Fairness and the Moral Mind" on Wednesday, November 16th from 14.00 - 19.00.
We are excited to announce that we have to postdoctoral positions at FAIR next year; a two-year Behavioral Economics and a three-year postdoctoral position in Labour Economics.
FAIR, Centre for Experimental Research on Fairness, Inequality and Rationality, søker studenter som kan gi støtte til prosjektet «Early-Career Progress Among MSc Graduates».
The new paper by Ingar Haaland and Andreas Olden studies economic relief programs and reduced auditing activities in tax administrations in the light of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Ranveig Falch got her paper titled "How do people trade off resources between quick and slow learners?" accepted in the Europen Economic Review.
The workshop: "Fairness and the moral mind" is open for submissions.
We are seeking a student who can support the Centre with event coordination, communication, and other administrative tasks. The student assistant will join the administrative team of seven people.
In a recent Wall Street Journal Special Report, “How the Covid Pandemic Will Follow Today’s Kids into Adulthood”, Alexander Willén suggests that the long-term impact of the COVID-19 generated school closures for children can be substantial.
Subsidised childcare services are at least as effective as cash grants in increasing household income, a field experiment from Uganda shows.
New publication in The Economic Journal, “The Meritocratic Origin of Egalitarian Behaviour” by Alexander W. Cappelen, Johanna Mollerstrom, Bjørn-Atle Reme, and Bertil Tungodden.
The working paper "When Parents Decide: Gender Differences in Competitiveness" by Alexander Willén and Jonas Tungodden (SiriusXM + Pandora) just got accepted in the Journal of Political Economy.
FAIR organizes a range of different online activities.
We invite applications for the position of four pre-doctoral fellows at FAIR/ the Department of Economics at The Norwegian School of Economics. The Centre is a unique platform for collaboration between the Centre for Empirical Labor Economics and The Choice Lab.
The working paper "The Dynamics of Power in Labor Markets: Monopolistic Unions versus Monopsonistic Employers" by Samuel Dodini, Kjell Salvanes, and Alexander Willén is being used in the 2022 Economic Report of the President (ERP).
Kjell Gunnar Salvanes, Sandra E. Black, Paul J. Devereux, and Fanny Landaud have published a working paper in the National Bureau of Economic Research: The (Un)Importance of Inheritance
FAIR invites you to the HCEO Chicago Summer School.
The FAIR annual report is now available online. You can read it in full length here, alongside a statement from Centre Director Bertil Tungodden.
FAIR Affiliate Lise Vesterlund’s new book “The No Club” is out for sale today, May 3rd! The book is published by Simon and Schuster.
Hallgeir Sjåstad (36) has been promoted to Full Professor at NHH! He completed his PhD only 5 years ago, and is now part of the exclusive club of professors under 40.
Alexander W. Cappelen has been elected as a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.
Vincent Somville, Asbjørn G. Andersen, and Andreas Kotsadam have published a new paper in Journal of Health Economics: Material resources and well-being — Evidence from an Ethiopian housing lottery.
Ingvild Almås, one of FAIR's PIs, has been granted an ERC Consolidator Grant for research on global inequality.
Ingar Haaland has accepted a tenure track position at the Department of Economics/FAIR.
The online workshop is organized by Professor Bertil Tungodden and funded by his ERC Advanced Grant “Fairness and the moral mind”.
New publication in The Economic Journal, “The Meritocratic Origin of Egalitarian Behaviour” (forthcoming) by Alexander W. Cappelen, Johanna Mollerstrom, Bjørn-Atle Reme, and Bertil Tungodden.
Together with a team of international researchers, Hallgeir Sjåstad and Ceren Ay have published a new paper in Nature Communications. The paper is entitled “National identity predicts public health support during a global pandemic".
FAIR, Centre for Experimental Research on Fairness, Inequality and Rationality, søker studenter som kan jobbe med støtte til ulike forskningsprosjekter.
New publication in the journal Meta-Psychology by Bjørn Sætrevik (University of Bergen) and Hallgeir Sjåstad (NHH/FAIR), titled: “Mortality salience effects fail to replicate in traditional and novel measures.”
Kjell Gunnar Salvanes, Barton Willanger, and Alexander Willén have published a new Working paper: "The effect of Labor Market Shocks Across the Life Cycle".
Ingvild Almås, Alexander W. Cappelen, Erik Ø. Sørensen, and Bertil Tungodden have published a new paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science of the United States of America (PNAS): “Global evidence on the selfish rich inequality hypothesis”.
The interdisciplinary research project “Freedom to Choose” (FREE) has been awarded 25 million NOK in funding from the Norwegian Research Council. The project, headed by Alexander Cappelen, Hallgeir Sjåstad and Bertil Tungodden, aims to exploit scientific synergies between economics and psychology.
Our FAIR Seminar Series for the Spring Semester 2022 is back.
Many congratulations to all of the FAIR Researchers who got a Publication bonus from The Norwegian School of Economics in 2021!
Professor Alexander W. Cappelen is awarded the Bronze Sponge for his outstanding effort as a lecturer.
FAIR, Centre for Experimental Research on Fairness, Inequality and Rationality, søker en bachelorstudent som kan støtte senteret med økonomi, regnskap og andre administrative oppgaver. Senteret er en del av Institutt for Samfunnsøkonomi og har omtrent 40 ansatte.
The topic of the 2022 Bergen Summer Research School is “Understanding and addressing inequality”. FAIR will contribute with a course on Economic Experiments in Developing Countries. A group of us at FAIR will teach some of the lectures, and the course is a mix of methods and topics.
On November 26th, Alexander W. Cappelen and Bertil Tungodden organized an online workshop together with Andreas Peichl (ifo Institute) and Georg Weizsäcker (Humboldt-U. Berlin).
Katrine Vellesen Løken and Laura Khoury have published a new working paper together with Manudeep Bhuller: " Prison, Mental Health and Family Spillovers".
Laura Khoury, Paul Brandily, Clément Brébion, and Simon Brioled have published a new paper in European Economic Review: A poorly understood disease? The impact of COVID-19 on the income gradient in mortality over the course of the pandemic.
Welcome to the Spring School in Behavioral Economics in San Diego, US!
Samuel D. Hirshman and Abigail B. Sussman have published a new article in Journal of Marketing: “Minimum Payments Alter Debt Repayment Strategies across Multiple Cards”.
An academic committee appointed by the Norwegian Fulbright Alumni Association has decided to award Professor Cappelen the Fulbright Article Prize 2021.
How has COVID-19 impacted the lives of households in Uganda? And to what extent have cash transfers been effective in improving peoples’ lives during the pandemic? These are the questions addressed in a C-19 note published by PEDL, Private Enterprise Development in Developing Countries, and involving FAIR researchers Kjetil Bjorvatn, Arne Nasgowitz and Vincent Somville.
Together with a team of international researchers, Kjell Gunnar Salvanes, Aline Bütikofer and René Karadakic have published a new paper in the scientific journal PNAS. The paper is entitled “Inequality in mortality between Black and White Americans by age, place, and cause and in comparison to Europe, 1990 to 2018”.
Together with a team of international researchers, Ingvild Almås and Orazio Attanasio have conducted research on “Empowering women through targeted conditional cash transfers“ recently featured by J-PAL in a policy brief.
FAIR has postdoc positions in behavioral economics and labor economic. See information about the different positions below.
FAIR, Centre for Experimental Research on Fairness, Inequality and Rationality, søker studenter som kan jobbe med støtte til ulike forskningsprosjekter.
FAIR-affiliated researcher Nina Serdarevic presented at two elementary schools as part of the annual research festival Forskningsdagene 2021.
Eight FAIR researchers are presenting at the 33rd annual EALE conference, 16-18 September 2021.
FAIR researchers are presenting at the CESifo Area Conference on the Economics of Education 2021, Friday to Saturday, September 3 to 4, 2021.
In a joint effort, CMI, the Norwegian School of Economics, the University of Bergen and Centre of applied research at NHH (SNF) are launching a new research and learning centre called the Development Learning Lab.
Together with a team of international researchers, Associate Professor Hallgeir Sjåstad has published a new paper in the leading journal Nature Human Behaviour. The paper is entitled “Moral dilemmas and trust in leaders during a global health crisis”.
FAIR at the Norwegian School of Economics and the Department of Economics at the Monash Business School would like to welcome you to SEEDEC 2021 on October 7.
For the second year in a row, professor Kjetil Bjorvatn at FAIR, is awarded the Bronze Sponge for his outstanding effort as a lecturer.
FAIR researchers are presenting at the 34th Annual Conference of the European Society for Population Economics, June 17-19 2021.
Chr. Michelsen Institute, the Department of Economics at the University of Bergen, and FAIR would like to welcome you to the 19th NCDE conference, 15 - 16 June 2021.
On Tuesday 1 June 2021, Ingvild Almås and Kjetil Bjorvatn will be presenting at Vårkonferansen 2021, NHH's annual spring conference. The topic of this year's conference is polarization and increasing inequality.
Results from a FAIR experiment suggest that informal declarations of mutual trust can reduce dishonesty in the Norwegian population. The research is presented at The Christie Conference 27 April.
FAIR is pleased to announce an open position as Research Data Manager.
Chr. Michelsen Institute, the Department of Economics at the University of Bergen, and FAIR would like to welcome you to the 19th NCDE conference, 15 - 16 June 2021.
FAIR is welcoming five researchers to the team this year.
