Alexander Wright Cappelen

BIOGRAPHY

Alexander W. Cappelen is a professor at the Department of Economics, Norwegian School of Economics (NHH), where his academic positions include Deputy Director of the Centre of Excellence FAIR (Centre for Experimental Research on Fairness, Inequality and Rationality), co-director of the research group The Choice Lab, and Chairman of Centre for Ethics and Economics.

His research interests are behavioral, experimental and public economics, business ethics, social choice theory, political philosophy and distributive justice. Cappelen has published extensively in leading international journals.

Cappelen finished his doctoral dissertation on “Redistribution in a Divided World” at NHH in 2000, and has been Professor since 2006.

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Cappelen, Alexander Wright; Halvorsen, Trond Uhre; Sørensen, Erik Øiolf; Tungodden, Bertil Face-saving or fair-minded: What motivates moral behavior? Journal of the European Economic Association Volume 15 (3); page 540 - 557; 2017
Almås, Ingvild; Cappelen, Alexander Wright; Salvanes, Kjell Gunnar; Sørensen, Erik Øiolf; Tungodden, Bertil Willingness to compete: Family matters Management science Volume 62 (8); page 2149 - 2162; 2016
Almås, Ingvild; Cappelen, Alexander Wright; Salvanes, Kjell Gunnar; Sørensen, Erik Øiolf; Tungodden, Bertil What Explains the Gender Gap in College Track Dropout? Experimental and Administrative Evidence. The American Economic Review Volume 106 (5); page 296 - 302; 2016
Cappelen, Alexander Wright; Eichele, Tom; Hugdahl, Kenneth; Specht, Karsten; Sørensen, Erik Øiolf; Tungodden, Bertil Equity theory and fair inequality: A neuroeconomic study Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) Volume 111 (43); page 15368 - 15372; 2014
Cappelen, Alexander Wright; Moene, Karl Ove; Sørensen, Erik Øiolf; Tungodden, Bertil NEEDS VERSUS ENTITLEMENTSAN INTERNATIONAL FAIRNESS EXPERIMENT Journal of the European Economic Association Volume 11 (3); page 574 - 598; 2013
Cappelen, Alexander Wright; Konow, James; Sørensen, Erik Øiolf; Tungodden, Bertil Just Luck: An Experimental Study of Risk-Taking and Fairness The American Economic Review Volume 103 (4); page 1398 - 1413; 2013
Almås, Ingvild; Cappelen, Alexander Wright; Sørensen, Erik Øiolf; Tungodden, Bertil Fairness and the Development of Inequality Acceptance Science Volume 328 (5982); page 1176 - 1178; 2010
Cappelen, Alexander W.; Hole, Astri Drange; Sørensen, Erik Ø.; Tungodden, Bertil The pluralism of fairness ideals: An experimental approach The American Economic Review Volume 97 (3); page 818 - 827; 2007
Cappelen, Alexander Wright; Falch, Ranveig; Huang, Zhongjing; Tungodden, Bertil Acceptance of Inequality Between Children: Large-Scale Experimental Evidence from China and Norway Economic Journal; 2024
Almås, Ingvild; Cappelen, Alexander Wright; Sørensen, Erik Øiolf; Tungodden, Bertil Attitudes to inequality: preferences and beliefs Oxford Open Economics Volume 3 (Supplement_1); page i64 - i79; 2024
Cappelen, Alexander Wright; Meißner, Stefan; Tungodden, Bertil Cancel the Deal? An Experimental Study on the Exploitation of Irrational Consumers Management science; 2024
Cappelen, Alexander Wright; de Haan, Thomas; Tungodden, Bertil Fairness and limited information: Are people Bayesian meritocrats? Journal of Public Economics Volume 233 (0 pages); 2024
Bursztyn, Leonardo; Cappelen, Alexander Wright; Tungodden, Bertil; Voena, Alessandra; Yanagizawa-Drott, David How Are Gender Norms Perceived? NHH Dept. of Economics Discussion papers; 2023
Cappelen, Alexander Wright; Kariv, Shachar; Sørensen, Erik Øiolf; Tungodden, Bertil The development gap in economic rationality of future elites Games and Economic Behavior Volume 142; page 866 - 878; 2023
Cappelen, Alexander Wright; Cappelen, Cornelius Wright; Tungodden, Bertil Second-Best Fairness: The Trade-off between False Positives and False Negatives The American Economic Review Volume 113 (9); page 2458 - 2485; 2023
Cappelen, Alexander Wright; Moene, Karl Ove (Kalle); Skjelbred, Siv-Elisabeth; Tungodden, Bertil The merit primacy effect Economic Journal Volume 133 (651); page 951 - 970; 2022
Cappelen, Alexander Wright; Mollerstrom, Johanna; Reme, Bjørn-Atle; Tungodden, Bertil A Meritocratic Origin of Egalitarian Behaviour Economic Journal Volume 132 (646); page 2101 - 2117; 2022
Almås, Ingvild; Cappelen, Alexander Wright; Sørensen, Erik Øiolf; Tungodden, Bertil Global evidence on the selfish rich inequality hypothesis Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) Volume 119 (3); 2022
Buser, Thomas; Cappelen, Alexander Wright; Gneezy, Uri; Hoffman, Moshe; Tungodden, Bertil Competitiveness, gender and handedness Economics and Human Biology Volume 43; 2021
Cappelen, Alexander Wright; Falch, Ranveig; Sørensen, Erik Øiolf; Tungodden, Bertil Solidarity and fairness in times of crisis Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization Volume 186; page 1 - 11; 2021
Cappelen, Alexander Wright; Fjeldstad, Odd-Helge; Mmari, Donald; Sjursen, Ingrid Hoem; Tungodden, Bertil Understanding the resource curse: A large-scale experiment on corruption in Tanzania Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization Volume 183; page 129 - 157; 2021
Cappelen, Alexander Wright; Fest, Sebastian; Sørensen, Erik Øiolf; Tungodden, Bertil Choice and Personal Responsibility: What Is a Morally Relevant Choice? Review of Economics and Statistics; page 1 - 35; 2020
Bjorvatn, Kjetil; Cappelen, Alexander Wright; Sekei, Linda Helgesson; Sørensen, Erik Øiolf; Tungodden, Bertil Teaching through television: Experimental evidence on entrepreneurship education in Tanzania Management science Volume 66 (6); page 2308 - 2325; 2020
Samek, Anya; Cowell, Jason M.; Cappelen, Alexander Wright; Cheng, Yawei; Contreras-Ibáñez, Carlos; Gomez-Sicard, Natalia; Gonzalez-Gadea, Maria L.; Huepe, David; Ibáñez, Agustin; Lee, Kang; Malcolm-Smith, Susan; Salas, Natalia; Selcuk, Bilge; Tungodden, Bertil; Wong, Alina; Zhou, Xinyue; Decety, Jean The development of social comparisons and sharing behavior across 12 countries Journal of Experimental Child Psychology Volume 192 (16 pages); 2020
Almås, Ingvild; Cappelen, Alexander Wright; Tungodden, Bertil Cutthroat capitalism versus cuddly socialism: Are americans more meritocratic and efficiency-seeking than Scandinavians? Journal of Political Economy; 2020
Cappelen, Alexander Wright; Falch, Ranveig; Tungodden, Bertil Fair and Unfair Income Inequality Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics; 2020
Bott, Kristina; Cappelen, Alexander Wright; Sørensen, Erik Øiolf; Tungodden, Bertil You’ve Got Mail: A Randomized Field Experiment on Tax Evasion Management science (19 pages); 2019
Cappelen, Alexander Wright; List, John; Samek, Anya; Tungodden, Bertil The effect of early-childhood education on social preferences Journal of Political Economy (24 pages); 2019
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