Working papers

2020

Authors	Title	Publication
Ingvild Almås, Andreas Kotsadam, Espen R. Moen & Knut Røed	The Economics of Hypergamy	IZA DP No. 12185
Alexander Willén, Kjell Vaage & Julian Johnsen	Interactions in Public Policies: Spousal Responses and Program Spillovers of Welfare Reforms	NHH, Dept. of Economics Discussion Paper No. 20/2020
Ingvild Almås, Lars Ivar Oppedal Berge, Kjetil Bjorvatn, Vincent Somville & Bertil Tungodden	Adverse Selection into Competition: Evidence from a Large-scale Field Experiment in Tanzania	Department of Economics, NHH, Discussion Paper No. 19/2020
Vincent Somville, Asbjørn Andersen, Simon Franklin, Tigabu Getahun, Andreas Kotsadam & Espen Villanger	Does Wealth Reduce Support for Redistribution? Evidence from an Ethiopian Housing Lottery	Department of Economics, NHH, Discussion Paper No. 18/2020
Thomas Buser, Alexander Cappelen, Uri Gneezy, Moshe Hoffman & Bertil Tungodden	Competitiveness, gender and handedness: a large-sample intercultural study	Department of Economics, NHH, Discussion Paper 02, 2020
Hallgeir Sjåstad & Roy Baumeister	Fast optimism, slow realism? Causal evidence for a two-step model of future thinking	Psychology Archives, 2020
Laura Khoury, Clément Brébion & Simon Briole	Entitled to Leave: the impact of Unenployment Insurance Eligibility on Employment Duration and Job Quality	Department of Economics, NHH, Discussion Paper 01, 2020

2019

Authors	Title	Publication
Vincent Somville	Having a Daughter Reduces Male Violence Against a Partner	Discussion Paper 24/2019, Department of Economics / NHH
Henning Hermes & Daniel Schunk	If You Could Read My Mind—An Experimental Beauty-Contest Game with Children	Discussion Paper 23/2019, Department of Economics / NHH
Bjørn Sætrevik & Hallgeir Sjåstad	Failed pre-registered replication of mortality salience effects in traditional and novel measures	Psychology Archives, 2019
Aline Bütikofer, Katrine V. Løken & Alexander Willén	Building Bridges and Widening Gaps: Efficiency Gains and Equity Concerns of Labor Market Expansions	Discussion Paper 19/2019, Department of Economics / NHH
Julie Riise, Barton Willage & Alexander Willén	Can Female Doctors Cure the Gender STEMM Gap? Evidence from Randomly Assigned General Practitioners	Discussion Paper 18/2019, Department of Economics / NHH
Andrew Vonasch & Hallgeir Sjåstad	Future-orientation (as trait and state) promotes reputation-protective choice in moral dilemmas	Psychology Archives, 2019
Katrine Nødtvedt, Hallgeir Sjåstad, Siv Skard, Helge Thorbjørnsen & Jay Van Bavel	Racial bias in the sharing economy and the role of trust	SSRN, 2019
Vincent Somville & Lore Vandewalle	Access to banking, savings and consumption smoothing in rural India	Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Working Paper HEIDWP09, 2019
Henning Hermes, Martin Huschens, Franz Rothlauf & Daniel Schunk	Motivating Low-Achievers - Relative Performance Feedback in Primary Schools	Discussion Paper 14/2019, Department of Economics / NHH
Eva M. Berger, Henning Hermes, Guenther Koenig, Felix Schmidt & Daniel Schunk	Self-regulation Training and Job Search Behavior: A Natural Field Experiment Within an Active Labor Market Program	Discussion Paper 13/2019, Department of Economics / NHH
Hallgeir Sjåstad, Siv Skard, Helge Thorbjørnsen & Elisabeth Norman	Self-serving optimism in hedonic prediction: People predict a bright future for themselves and their friends, but not for their enemies
Britta Augsburg, Bet Caeyers & Bansi Malde	Can Micro-Credit Support Public Health Subsidy Programs?	Policy Research Working Paper 8846, World Bank Group
Fanny Landaud	From Employment to Engagement? Stable Jobs, Temporary Jobs, and Cohabiting Relationships	Discussion Paper 10/2019, Department of Economics / NH
Ingvild Almås, Maximilian Auffhammer, Tessa Bold, Ian Bolliger, Aluma Dembo, Solomon M. Hsiang, Shuhei Kitamura, Edward Miguel and Robert P. Pickmans	Destructive Behavior, Judgment, and Economic Decision-making under Thermal Stress	NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES
Alexander W. Cappelen, Johanna Mollerstrom, Bjørn-Atle Reme and Bertil Tungodden	A Meritocratic Origin of Egalitarian Behavior
Ingvild Almås, Johannes Haushofer & Jeremy P. Shapiro	The Income Elasticity for Nutrition: Evidence from Unconditional Cash Transfers in Kenya	The National Bureau of Economic Research, March 2019
Johannes Haushofer, Charlotte Ringdal, Jeremy P. Shapiro & Xiao Yu Wang	Income Changes and Intimate Partner Violence: Evidence from Unconditional Cash Transfers in Kenya	Working Paper 25627/NBER Working paper series
Alexander W. Cappelen, Ranveig Falch & Bertil Tungodden	The Boy Crisis: Experimental Evidence on the Acceptance of Males Falling Behind	Discussion Paper 6/2019, Department of Economics / NHH
Ingvild Almås, Alexander W. Cappelen & Bertil Tungodden	Cutthroat capitalism versus cuddly socialism: Are Americans more meritocratic and efficiency-seeking than Scandinavians?	Discussion Paper 4/2019, Department of Economics / NHH
Ingar Haaland & Christopher Roth	Beliefs About Racial Discrimination and Support for Pro-Black Policies	Discussion Paper 2/2019, Department of Economics / NHH
Aline Bütikofer, Christopher Cronin & Meghan Skira	Employment Effects of Healthcare Policy: Evidence from the 2007 FDA Black Box Warning on Antidepressants	Discussion Paper 1/2019, Department of Economics / NHH

2018

Authors	Title	Publication
Patrick Bennett & Amine Ouazad	Job Displacement, Unemployment, and Crime: Evidence from Danish Microdata and Reforms	Discussion Paper 32/2018, Department of Economics / NHH
David Jaume and Alexander L.P. Willén	Oh Mother: The Neglected Impact of School Disruptions	Discussion Paper 30/2018, Department of Economics / NHH
Aline Bütikofer, Antonio Dalla-Zuanna and Kjell G. Salvanes	Breaking the Links: Natural Resource Booms and Intergenerational Mobility	Discussion Paper 19/2018, Department of Economics / NHH
Alexander W. Cappelen, Cornelius Cappelen and Bertil Tungodden	Second-best fairness under limited information: The trade-off between false positives and false negatives	Discussion Paper 18/2018, Department of Economics / NHH
Manudeep Bhuller, Gordon B. Dahl, Katrine V. Løken and Magne Mogstad	Incarceration, Recidivism and Employment	NHH Discussion Paper
Michael Lovenheim and Alexander Willén	The Long-run Effects of Teacher Collective Bargaining	HCEO 08/2018
Pedro Carneiro, Kai Liu and Kjell G. Salvanes	The Supply of Skill and Endogenous Technical Change: Evidence From a College Expansion Reform	Discussion Paper 16/2018, Department of Economics / NHH
Manudeep Bhuller, Gordon B. Dahl, Katrine V. Løken, Magne Mogstad	Incarceration Spillovers in Criminal and Family Networks	NBER Working Paper No. 24878
Alexander Cappelen, Varun Gauri and Bertil Tungodden	Cooperation Creates Special Moral Obligations	CESifo Working paper No. 7025/2018
Mathias Ekström	The (un)compromise effect	Discussion Paper 10/2018, Department of Economics / NHH
Aline Bütikofer, Sissel Jensen and Kjell G. Salvanes	The Role of Parenthood on the Gender Gap among Top Earners	Discussion Paper 9/2018, Department of Economics / NHH
Björn Bartling, Alexander W. Cappelen, Mathias Ekström, Erik Ø. Sørensen and Bertil Tungodden	Fairness in Winner-Take-All Markets	Discussion Paper 8/2018, Department of Economics / NHH
Aline Bütikofer, Julie Riise and Meghan Skira	The Impact of Paid Maternity Leave on Maternal Health	Discussion Paper 4/2018, Department of Economics / NHH
Kjetil Bjorvatn and Bertil Tungodden	Empowering the disabled through savings groups: Experimental evidence from Uganda	Discussion Paper 5/2018, Department of Economics / NHH
Ingvild Almås, Tim Beatty and Thomas Crossley	Lost in Translation: What Do Engel Curves Tell Us About the Cost of Living?	IFS Working Paper (W18/04)
Florian Hett, Mario Mechtel, Henning Müller, Felix Schmidt, Daniel Schunk and Valentin Wagner	Do Children Cooperate Conditionally? Adapting the Strategy Method for First-Graders	SSRN Discussion Paper
Hallgeir Sjåstad, Roy Baumeister and Michael Ent	Greener grass or sour grapes? How people value future goals after initial failure	PsyArXiv

2017

Authors	Title	Publication
Øivind Schøyen	What limits the powerful in imposing the morality of their authority?	Discussion Paper 18/2017, Department of Economics/NHH Norwegian School of Economics
Aline Bütikofer and Giovanni Peri	The Effects of Cognitive and Noncognitive Skills on Migration Decision	NBER Working Paper No. 23877, Issued in September 2017
Alexander W. Cappelen, Gary Charness, Mathias Ekström, Uri Gneezy and Bertil Tungodden	Exercise Improves Academic Performance	Discussion Paper 8/2017, Department of Economics / NHH
Charlotte Ringdal and Ingrid Hoem Sjursen	Household bargaining and spending on children: Experimental evidence from Tanzania Latest version (PDF)	WIDER Working Paper 128/2017, UNU-WIDER
Alexander W. Cappelen, Bertil Tungodden, Karl Ove Moene and Siv-Elisabeth Skjelbred	The merit primacy effect	Discussion Paper 06/2017, Department of Economics/NHH Norwegian School of Economics
Mathias Ekström	Seasonal Social Preferences	Discussion Paper 04/2017, Department of Economics/NHH Norwegian School of Economics

2016

Authors	Title	Publication
Ingvild Almås and Åshild Auglænd Johnsen	The Cost of a Growth Miracle - Reassessing Poverty and Inequality Trends in China
Alexander W. Cappelen, John List, Anya Samek and Bertil Tungodden	The Effect of Early Education on Social Preferences	NBER Working Paper No. 22898, Issued in December 2016
Aline Bütikofer, Eirin Mølland and Kjell Gunnar Salvanes	Childhood Nutrition and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from a School Breakfast Program	Discussion Paper 015/2016, Department of Economics/NHH Norwegian School of Economics
Alexander W. Cappelen, Sebastian Fest, Erik Ø. Sørensen and Bertil Tungodden	Choice and personal responsibility: What is a morally relevant choice?	Discussion Paper 27/2014, Department of Economics/NHH Norwegian School of Economics
Ingvild Almås, Alexander W. Cappelen and Bertil Tungodden	Cutthroat capitalism versus cuddly socialism: Are Americans more meritocratic and efficiency-seeking than Scandinavians?	Discussion Paper 18/2016, Department of Economics/NHH Norwegian School of Economics

2015

Authors	Title	Publication
Aline Bütikofer, Katrine V. Løken and Kjell Gunnar Salvanes	Long-Term Consequences of Access to Well-child Visits	Discussion Paper 29/2015, Department of Economics/NHH Norwegian School of Economics
Aline Buetikofer and Kjell Gunnar Salvanes	Disease Control and Inequality Reduction: Evidence from a Tuberculosis Testing and Vaccination Campaign	Discussion Paper 28/2015, Department of Economics/NHH Norwegian School of Economics
Ingvild Almås, Alexander W. Cappelen, Kjell Gunnar Salvanes, Erik Ø. Sørensen and Bertil Tungodden	Fairness and family background. Appendix A. Appendix B.	Discussion Paper 25/2015, Department of Economics/NHH Norwegian School of Economics
Ragnhild Balsvik and Stefanie A. Haller	Ownership change and its implication for the match between the plant and its workers	Discussion Paper 10/2015, Department of Economics/NHH Norwegian School of Economics
Susanna Sten Gahmberg	Early Bird Caught the Worm? The Effect of a Student Aid Reform on Time-to-degree
Kjetil Bjorvatn, Alexander W. Cappelen, Erik Ø. Sørensen, Bertil Tungodden and Linda Helgesson	Teaching through television: Experimental evidence on entrepreneurship education in Tanzania. Appendix.

2014

Authors	Title	Publication
Manudeep Bhuller, Magne Mogstad and Kjell Gunnar Salvanes	Life Cycle Earnings, Education Premiums and Internal Rates of Return	Discussion Paper 30/2014, Department of Economics/NHH Norwegian School of Economics
Ragnhild Balsvik and Morten Sæthre	Rents sharing with footloose production: foreign ownership and wages revisited	Discussion Paper 24/2014, Department of Economics/NHH Norwegian School of Economics

2013

Authors	Title	Publication
Sigbjørn Birkeland and Bertil Tungodden	Fairness motivation in bargaining: A matter of principle	Forthcoming in Theory and Decision
Sandra E. Black, Aline Buetikofer, Paul Devereux and Kjell Gunnar Salvanes	This Is Only a Test? Long-Run Impacts of Prenatal Exposure to Radioactive Fallout	NBER Working Paper No. 18987
Ingvild Almås, Anders Kjelsrud and Rohini Somathan	A behaviour-based approach to the estimation of poverty in India
Alexander W. Cappelen, Trond Halvorsen, Erik Ø. Sørensen and Bertil Tungodden	Face-saving or fair-minded: What motivates moral behavior?

2012

Authors	Title	Publication
Ingvild Almås, Alexander W. Cappelen, Kjell Gunnar Salvanes, Erik Ø. Sørensen and Bertil Tungodden	Willingness to compete in a gender equal society
Ingvild Almås and Åshild Auglænd Johnsen	The cost of living in China: Implications for inequality and poverty
Kjetil Bjorvatn and Tina Søreide	Corruption and competition for resources
Ingvild Almås and Erik Ø. Sørensen	Global income inequality and cost-of-living adjustment: The geary-allen world accounts
Alexander Cappelen and Bertil Tungodden	Tax policy and fair inequality

2011

Authors	Title	Publication
Per Manne and Bertil Tungodden	Sign regularity and the ranking of distributions
Alexander Cappelen and Bertil Tungodden	Fairness. Desert versus neutrality
Alexander Cappelen and Bertil Tungodden	Caring for distant future generations
Alexander Cappelen and Tone Ognedal	Certification and ethical production
Kjell Gunnar Salvanes and Erik Ø. Sørensen	Inter- and intragenerational mobility in earnings and education
Ingvild Almås and Erik Ø. Sørensen	Cost-of-living indices for measuring global inequality
Ingvild Almås, Anders Grøn Kjelsrud and Rohini Somanathan	The measurement of poverty in India — A structural approach	Manuscript, 2011
Ingvild Almås and Erik Ø. Sørensen	Global inequality trends. Maximizing the use of available data	Manuscript, 2011
Lars Ivar Oppedal Berge	Measuring spillover effects from business training: Evidence from a field experiment among microentrepreneurs
Lars Ivar Oppedal Berge, Kartika Sari Juniwaty and Linda Helgesson Sekei	Group composition and group dynamics: Evidence from a lab experiment

2010

Authors	Title	Publication
Alexander W. Cappelen, Astri D. Hole, Erik Ø. Sørensen and Bertil Tungodden	Modeling individual choices in experiments: Random utility versus random behaviour
Frank Cowell, Marc Fleurbaey and Bertil Tungodden	The tyranny puzzle in welfare economics: An empirical investigation

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