Uganda project receives funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
The new project, Women's Leadership in Village Savings and Loans Associations (VSLAs) has received funding for three years.
Professor Kjetil Bjorvatn
- Kjetil.Bjorvatn@nhh.no
- Telephone
- +47 55 95 95 85 / +47 472 52 861
- Department
- Economics
- Centre
- FAIR
- Office
- E226
- 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Bjorvatn, Kjetil; Getahun, Tigabu Degu; Halvorsen, Sandra Kristine | Conflict or cooperation? Experimental evidence on intra-household allocations in Ethiopia | Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics Volume 85; 2020 |
| Berge, Lars Ivar Oppedal; Bjorvatn, Kjetil; Galle, Simon; Miguel, Edward; Posner, Daniel; Tungodden, Bertil; Zhang, Kelly | Ethnically Biased? Experimental Evidence from Kenya | Journal of the European Economic Association Volume 18 (1); 2019 |
| Bjorvatn, Kjetil; Sekei, Linda Helgesson; Mgumia, Jaqueline | Ungdom og entreprenørskap | Magma - Tidsskrift for økonomi og ledelse Volume 22 (6); page 50 - 55; 2019 |
| 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 |
TEACHING AREAS
Development Economics
Dissemination
Conflict or cooperation? Experimental evidence on intra-household allocations in Ethiopia
New published paper in the Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics by Kjetil Bjorvatn (FAIR), Tigabu Degu Getahun (Ethiopian Development Research Institute) and Sandra Kristine Halvorsen (FAIR).
New FAIR Projects funded by the Research Council of Norway
FAIR is involved in three projects that have received funding from the Research Council of Norway.
Teaching through television: Experimental evidence on entrepreneurship education in Tanzania
New accepted paper in the journal Management Science, by Kjetil Bjorvatn, Alexander W. Cappelen, Linda Helgesson Sekei, Erik Ø. Sørensen and Bertil Tungodden.
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?
Ethnically Biased? Experimental Evidence from Kenya
New published paper, in the Journal of the European Economic Association, titled "Ethnically Biased? Experimental Evidence from Kenya", by Lars Ivar Oppedal Berge, Kjetil Bjorvatn, Simon Galle, Edward Miguel, Daniel N. Posner, Bertil Tungodden and Kelly Zhang.
Girls' economic empowerment
NHH and the research foundation ESRF have jointly conducted a multi-year study on «Girls’ Economic Empowerment: Evidence from Tanzania».
Empowering the disabled through savings groups
Professors Kjetil Bjorvatn and Bertil Tungodden have a new working paper "Empowering the disabled through savings groups: Experimental evidence from Uganda".
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.