Research

The Centre for Experimental Research on Fairness, Inequality and Rationality aims to conduct groundbreaking experimental research on how to address inequality in society. FAIR is comprised of three research groups, the Centre for Empirical Labor Economics (CELE), The Choice Lab (TCL), and Development (DEV).

CELE

Centre for Empirical Labor Economics aims to foster research on the multiple aspects of empirical labour economics. The research agenda includes several themed areas of focus: the labour market, education and health economics, in particular early investments and intergenerational mobility.

TCL

The Choice Lab uses economic experiments to study individual decision-making, particularly how people are motivated by moral, risk and institutional considerations. Areas of focus are global income inequality, tax policy, health care and management issues relevant to corporations and non-governmental organisations.

Dev

Development combines field experiments, smaller-scale controlled economic experiments, survey experiments and household surveys to better understand people's choices in low-income countries and provide research-based advice on how their lives can be improved. Our projects involve early childhood development, education, and entrepreneurship, with a focus on countries in East Africa.

Selected publications

Authors	Title	Publication
Alexander W. Cappelen, Gary Charness, Mathias P. Ekström, Uri Gneezy	Exercise improves academic performance	Forthcoming in Journal of Political Economy
Aline Bütikofer, Katrine V. Løken, Alexander L.P. Willén	Building Bridges and Widening Gaps	The Review of Economics and Statistics 1–44, November 2022
Jonas Tungodden, Alexander L.P. Willén	When Parents Decide: Gender Differences in Competitiveness	Journal of Political Economy, Volume 130 (11), November 2022
Kjell G. Salvanes, Barton Willage, Alexander L. P. Willén	The Effect of Labour Market Shocks Across the Life Cycle	Journal of Labour Economics, Volume 40 (4), October 2022
Pedro Carneiro, Kai Liu, Kjell G. Salvanes	The Supply of Skill and Endogenous Technical Change: Evidence from a College Expansion Reform	Journal of the European Economic Association, jvac032, 00 (0), 2022
Cheti Nicoletti, Kjell G. Salvanes, Emma Tominey	Mothers working during preschool years and child skills. Does income compensate?	Journal of Labor Economics, Volume 40 (4), October 2022
Alexander W. Cappelen, Sebastian Fest, Erik Ø. Sørensen, Bertil Tungodden	Choice and Personal Responsibility: What Is a Morally Relevant Choice?	The Review of Economics and Statistics, Volume 104 (5), September 2022
Kjell G. Salvanes, Emma Tominey, Italo Lopez-Garcia & Pedro Carneiro	Intergenerational Mobility and the Timing of Parental Income	Journal of Political Economy, Volume 129 (3), March 2021
Aline Bütikofer, Julie Riise, and Meghan M. Skira	The Impact of Paid Maternity Leave on Maternal Health	American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Volume 13 (1), February 2021
Aline Bütikofer and Kjell G. Salvanes	Disease Control and Inequality Reduction: Evidence from a Tuberculosis Testing and Vaccination Campaign	Review of Economic Studies, Volume 87 (5), 2087-2125, October 2020
Julie Riise, Barton Willage and Alexander Willén	Can Female Doctors Cure the Gender STEMM Gap? Evidence from Exogenously-Assigned General Practitioners	Review of Economics and Statistics, September 2020
Alexander Cappelen, John List, Anya Samek & Bertil Tungodden	The Effect of Early Childhood Education on Social Preferences	Journal of Political Economy, Volume 128 (7), July 2020
Kristina M. Bott, Alexander W. Cappelen, Erik Ø. Sørensen & Bertil Tungodden	You’ve Got Mail: A Randomized Field Experiment on Tax Evasion	Management Science, Volume 66 (7), July 2020
Kjetil Bjorvatn, Alexander W. Cappelen, Linda Sekei Helgesson, Erik Ø. Sørensen, and Bertil Tungodden	Teaching Through Television: Experimental Evidence on Entrepreneurship Education in Tanzania	Management Science, Volume 66 (6), June 2020
Ingvild Almas, Alexander W. Cappelen & Bertil Tungodden	Cutthroat Capitalism Versus Cuddly Socialism: Are Americans More Meritocratic and Efficiency-Seeking than Scandinavians?	Journal of Political Economy, Volume 128(5), May 2020
Manudeep Bhuller, Gordon Dahl, Katrine Løken & Magne Mogstad	Incarceration, Recidivism, and Employment	Journal of Political Economy, Volume 128 (4), April 2020
Lars Ivar Oppedal Berge, Kjetil Bjorvatn, Simon Galle, Edward Miguel, Daniel N. Posner, Bertil Tungodden & Kelly Zhang	Ethnically Biased? Experimental Evidence from Kenya	Journal of the European Economic Association, Volume 18 (1), February 2020
Alexander L.P. Willén and Anders Böhlmark	Tipping and the Effects of Segregation	American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, Volume 12 (1), 318-347, January 2020
Michael Loveinheim and Alexander L.P. Willén	The Long-run Effects of Teacher Collective Bargaining	American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Volume 11 (3), August 2019
Sandra E. Black, Aline Bütikofer, Paul J. Devereux & Kjell G. Salvanes	This Is Only a Test? Long-Run and Intergenerational Impacts of Prenatal Exposure to Radioactive Fallout	Review of Economics and Statistics, Volume 101 (3), July 2019
Aline Bütikofer, Katrine V. Løken, and Kjell G. Salvanes	Infant Health Care and Long-Term Outcomes	Review of Economics and Statistics, Volume 101 (2), May 2019
Aline Bütikofer, David N. Figlio, Krzysztof Karbownik, Christopher W. Kuzawa & Kjell G. Salvanes	Evidence that prenatal testosterone transfer from male twins reduces the fertility and socioeconomic success of their female co-twins	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 116 (14), April 2019
Marianne Bertrand, Sandra E. Black, Sissel Jensen & Adriana Lleras-Muney	Breaking the Glass Ceiling? The Effect of Board Quotas on Female Labour Market Outcomes in Norway	The Review of Economic Studies, Volume 86 (1), January 2019

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