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.
Professor Kjetil Bjorvatn
- Kjetil.Bjorvatn@nhh.no
- Telephone
- +47 55 95 95 85 / +47 472 52 861
- Department
- Economics
- Centre
- The Choice Lab
- 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’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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Bjorvatn, Kjetil, Milford, Anna Birgitte, Sørgard, Lars | Farmers, Middlemen and Exporters: A Model of Market Power, Pricing and Welfare in a Vertical Supply Chain | Review of Development Economics Volume 19 (1), page 31 - 44, 2015 |
| Bjorvatn, Kjetil, Svensson, Jakob | Are not-for-profits different? Theory and evidence on the pricing of health services in Uganda | Economics of Governance Volume 17 (1), page 1 - 10, 2015 |
TEACHING AREAS
Development Economics
Dissemination
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