A nudge in the right direction?
Can nudging become the solution to the greatest challenges of our time such as economic inequality and climate change?
Professor Kjetil Bjorvatn
- Kjetil.Bjorvatn@nhh.no
- Telephone
- +47 55 95 95 85 / +47 472 52 861
- Department
- Economics
- Centre
- FAIR
- Office
- E213
- Expertise
- Behavioural economics Industrial Organization Development Economics
BIOGRAPHY
Kjetil Bjorvatn has been a professor in economics since 2005. He received his PhD degree in economics from NHH in 1996. Bjorvatn is the leader of the FAIR Insight Team at the Centre of Excellence FAIR (Centre for Experimental Research on Fairness, Inequality and Rationality).
Bjorvatn’s main research interests are in the fields of economic development and political economy. He has published a number of articles in these areas, among them ”Disabled by stereotype? Experimental evidence from Uganda,” Forthcoming Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (together with Bertil Tungodden), “Human and financial capital for microenterprise development: Evidence from a field and lab experiment,” (2014) Management Science (together with Lars Ivar O. Berge and Bertil Tungodden), and “Resource rents, balance of power, and political stability,” Forthcoming Journal of Peace Research (together with Mohammad Farzanegan).
Bjorvatn was Dean of the Bachelor programme at NHH in the period 2009-2015. In 2004 and 2013 he has won the Students’ NHH Best teacher award and received the NHH award for excellence in teaching in 2005.
Selected publications
| Author(s) | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|
| Berge, Lars Ivar Oppedal; Bjorvatn, Kjetil; Mohamed, Amina; Somville, Vincent; Tungodden, Bertil | Reducing Early Pregnancy in Low-Income Countries : a literature review and new evidence | Towards gender equity in development; page 141 - 166; 2018 |
| Bjorvatn, Kjetil; Ekström, Mathias Philip; Pires, Armando | Kan nudging gi bedre oppmøte til lærerstudiet? : små dytt for store valg | Samfunnsøkonomen Volume 131 (3); page 46 - 51; 2017 |
| Bjorvatn, Kjetil; Falch, Ranveig; Hernæs, Ulrikke Johanne Voltersvik | Gender, context and competition: Experimental evidence from rural and urban Uganda | Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics Volume 61; page 31 - 37; 2016 |
| Bjorvatn, Kjetil; Høigilt, Jacob | Youth and the Arab Revolutions | Oil States in the New Middle East: Uprisings and stability; page 39 - 56; 2016 |
TEACHING AREAS
Development Economics
Dissemination
Girls' economic empowerment
NHH and the research foundation ESRF have jointly conducted a multi-year study on «Girls’ Economic Empowerment: Evidence from Tanzania».
Two Assistant/ Associate Professor positions in Behavioural and/or Labour Economics at SNF
The Centre for Applied Research (SNF) at NHH has two Assistant/ Associate Professor positions in Behavioural Economics and/or Labour Economics affiliated with the FAIR Insight Team.
Early education opportunities
Can supporting pre-school education improve educational outcomes for the children and business development for the mothers? A new FAIR project in Uganda will address these issues.
10 million to FAIR
The project ”Child care for childhood and business development” has recieved a grant of 10 million NOK from the Research Council of Norway.
Student teachers given a nudge by NHH
Hundreds of teacher education applicants fail to turn up for the start of their study programmes. NHH’s behavioural economists have experimented on them to check whether some nudging might help.
A society of free riders?
Income inequality can result in less willingness to contribute to a common good that benefits all, a new NHH study shows.
Competitive in the lab
A number of laboratory experiments have analysed the willingness of people to compete. However, to what extent is competitive behaviour in the lab linked to choices and results in real life?
Special issue published on developing countries
The Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (JEBO) has published a special issue which aims to show how lab experimental methods can be applied in developing countries.
Received Large Grant for Microfinance Research
A microfinance research project led by NHH professors Bertil Tungodden and Kjetil Bjorvatn has received a grant of 9.7 million NOK from the Norwegian research Council. The funds will be used for several purposes, including continued research on the effect of basic business education for microfinance clients in Tanzania.