Research

Published Work

• Experimental Evidence on the Acceptance of Males Falling Behind, with A. W. Cappelen and B. Tungodden, forthcoming in Journal of European Economic Association.
  Media coverage: Weekendavisen (in Danish), Morgenbladet (in Norwegian), Podcast episode (in Norwegian).
  
  

• Acceptance of Inequality between Children: Large-Scale Experimental Evidence from China and Norway, with A. W. Cappelen, Z. Huang and B. Tungodden, Economic Journal, 135, 999-1020, 2025.
  
  

• How Do People Trade Off Resources Between Quick and Slow Learners?, single-authored, European Economic Review, 150, 104285, 2022.

• Solidarity and Fairness in Times of Crisis, with A. W. Cappelen, E. Ø. Sørensen and B. Tungodden, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 186, 1-11, 2021.
  Media coverage:  Opinion, New York Times.

• Fair and Unfair Income Inequality, chapter in Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, Springer, Cham  (2020), with A. W. Cappelen and B. Tungodden.

• Gender, context and competition: Experimental evidence from rural and urban Uganda with K. Bjorvatn and U. Hernæs, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 61, 31-37, 2016.

Work in Progress

• Peer Perceptions and Students’ Investments in Schoolwork, with F. Landaud.
  Awarded the 2025 European Association of Young Economists (EAYE) Best Paper in Education Prize (£1,000) . 

• Getting Employers On Board: An RCT on Strategies to Increase Employer Engagment in Jobseeker Programs, with Kjetil Bjorvatn, Catalina Franco and Mathias Ekström.

• Is it Morally Acceptable to be Selfish?, with A. W. Cappelen, E. Ø. Sørensen and B. Tungodden.

• How the World Responds to Men and Women Falling Behind, with A. W. Cappelen, E. Ø. Sørensen and B. Tungodden.

• Small Lives, Big Gaps: How the World Views Inequality Between Children, with A. W. Cappelen, E. Ø. Sørensen and B. Tungodden.

• The Development of Social Preferences: Experimental Evidence from China and Norway, with A. W. Cappelen, Zhonjing Huang and B. Tungodden.

Published Work in Norwegian

• Kvinner, kontekst og konkurranse with Kjetil Bjorvatn and Ulrikke Hernæs, Magma, 5, 52-59, 2012.