Research

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 two research groups, the Centre for Empirical Labor Economics (CELE) and The Choice Lab.

CELE

CELE 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.

The Choice Lab

The Choice Lab uses economic experiments to study individual decision making, in particular 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.

Selected publications

Authors Title Publication

Alexander W. Cappelen, Garu 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

Journal of Political Economy, Volume 129 (3), March 2021

Julie RiiseBarton 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

You’ve Got Mail: A Randomized Field Experiment on Tax Evasion

Management Science, Volume 66 (7), July 2020

Ingvild Almas, Alexander W. Cappelen & Bertil Tungodden 

Cutthroat capitalism versus cuddly socialism: Are Americans more meritocratic and efficiencyseeking 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 BergeKjetil 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

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

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

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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