ALexander W. cappelen

Books

The Economics of Fairness (edited together with Bertil Tungodden). 2019. Edward Elgar Publishing.

new publications

• Cooperation creates moral obligations, (co-authors: Bertil Tungodden, Varun Gauri) forthcoming in Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization.

• Linking Social and Personal Preferences: Theory and Experiment, (co-authors: William R. Zame, Bertil Tungodden, Erik Ø. Sørensen, Shachar Kariv) forthcoming in Journal of Political Economy. 

• Inequality acceptance in China: fairness views, inequality beliefs, and policy attitudes in a socialist market economy, (co-authors: Ingvild Almås, Caroline Bonn, Bertil Tungodden and Cornelius Cappelen) forthcoming in Journal of Economic Inequality.

• Fairness and willingness to compete, (co-authors: Thomas Buser and Bertil Tungodden) forthcoming in Experimental Economics. 

• Exercise improves academic performance, (co-authors Gary Charness, Mathias Ekström, Uri Gneezy and Bertil Tungodden), forthcoming in Journal of Political Economy. 

• Experimental evidence on the acceptance of males falling behind, (co-authors: Bertil Tungodden and Ranveig Falch) in Journal of European Economic Association, jvaf016.

• Acceptance of inequality between children: Large-scale experimental evidence from China and Norway, (co-authors: Bertil Tungodden, Ranveig Falch and Zhongjing Huang) in The Economic Journal, ueae097, 2024.

• Universalism: Global evidence, (co-authors: Bertil Tungodden and Benjamin Enke), American Economic Review, 115: 43-76, 2025.

• Fairness and limited information: Are people Bayesian meritocrats?, (co-authors: Thomas de Haan and Bertil Tungodden) in Journal of Public Economics, 233, 2024.

• Cancel the deal? An experimental study on exploitation of irrational customers (co-authors: Bertil Tungodden, Stefan Meissner) in Management Science, 2024.

• Attitudes to inequality: preferences and beliefs (co-authors: Ingvild Almås, Erik Ø. Sørensen and Bertil Tungodden), in Oxford Open Economics, 2024, i64 - i79.

• The development gap in economic rationality of future elites, (co-authors: Bertil Tungodden, Shachar Kariv, and Erik Ø. Sørensen), in Games and Economic Behavior, 142: 866-878, 2023. 

• Second-best fairness: The trade-off between false positives and false negatives, (co-authors: Bertil Tungodden and Cornelius Cappelen), in American Economic Review, 113 (9): 2458-85, 2023.

• The merit primacy effect, (co-authors: Bertil Tungodden, Karl Ove Moene, and Siv-Elisabeth Skjelbred),in Economic Journal, Volume 133, Issue 651, Pages 951–970, April 2023. 

• A meritocratic origin of egalitarian behavior, (co-authors: Johanna Mollerstrom, Bjørn-Atle Reme, and Bertil Tungodden), Economic Journal, Volume 132, Issue 646, Pages 2101–2117, August 2022. 

• Global evidence on the selfish rich inequality hypothesis, (co-authors: Ingvild Almås, Bertil Tungodden, and Erik Ø. Sørensen), Proceedings of the National Academy of the Sciences (PNAS),  119 (3), 2022.

• Competitiveness, gender and handedness: a large-sample intercultural study, (co-authors: Thomas Buser, Uri Gneezy, Moshe Hoffman, and Bertil Tungodden), Economics and Human Biology, Volume 43, December 2021.

• Understanding the resource curse: A large-scale experiment on corruption in Tanzania, (co-authors: Odd-Helge Fjeldstad, Donald Mmari, Ingrid Hoem Sjursen, and Bertil Tungodden),  Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization,183: 129-157, 2021. 

• Solidarity and fairness in times of crisis, (co-authors Ranveig Falch, Erik Ø. Sørensen and Bertil Tungodden),  Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Volume 186, Pages 1-11, June 2021.

• Choice and Personal Responsibility: What is a Morally Relevant Choice?, (co-authors Sebastian Fest, Erik Ø. Sørensen, and Bertil Tungodden), Review of Economics and Statistics, 104(5): 1-35, December 2020.

• New chapter: Fair and unfair income inequality, (co authors Ranveig Falch, and Bertil Tungodden), Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, 2020.

• You’ve got mail: A randomized field experiment on tax evasion, (co-authors: Kristina Bott, Bertil Tungodden, and Erik Ø. Sørensen), Management Science, 66(7): 2801-3294, 2020.

• The Effect of Early Childhood Education on Social Preferences, (co-authors John List, Anya Samek, and Bertil Tungodden), Journal of Political Economy, 128(7): 2739-2758, 2020.

• Teaching through television: Experimental evidence on entrepreneurship education in Tanzania, (co-authors Kjetil Bjorvatn, Linda Helgesson Sekei, Erik Ø. Sørensen, and Bertil Tungodden), Management Science, 66(6): 2291-2799, June 2020.

• Cutthroat capitalism versus cuddly socialism: Are Americans more meritocratic and efficiency-seeking than Scandinavians?, (co-authors Ingvild Almås, and Bertil Tungodden), Journal of Political Economy, 128(5): 1753-1788, 2020.

• The Development of Social Comparisons and Sharing Behavior Across 12 Countries, (co-authors Anya Samek, Jason Cowell, Bertil Tungodden, Yawei Cheng, Carlos Contreras-Ibanez, Natalia Gomez-Sicard, Maria Luz Gonzalez-Gadea, David Huepe, Agustin Ibanez, Professor Kang Lee, Susan Malcolm-Smith, Natalia Salas, Bilge Selcuk, Alina Wong, Xinyue Zhou, and Jean Decety), Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 192(104778), April 2020.

Invited resubmissions 

• Fairness in winner-take-all competitions, (co-authors: Björn Bartling, Mathias Ekström, Erik Ø. Sørensen, Bertil Tungodden) invited resubmission in the Review of Economics and Statistics.

• The talent paradox: Why is fair to reward talent but not luck?, (co-authors: Björn Bartling, Ingvild L. Skarpeid, Erik Ø. Sørensen, Bertil Tungodden) invited resubmission in European Economic Review.

Working papers 

• Risk taking on behalf of others: Does the timing of uncertainty revelation matter? (co-authors: Erik Ø. Sørensen, Xiaogeng Xu, Bertil Tungodden)

• Fairness and Attribution Bias in a Society of Unequal Opportunities (co-authors: Yiming Liu, Hedda Nielsen, Bertil Tungodden)

• Fairness Across the World (co-authors: Ingvild Almås, Erik Ø. Sørensen, Bertil Tungodden)

• Fairness in a Society of Unequal Opportunities, (co-authors: Yiming Liu, Hedda Nielsen, Bertil Tungodden)

• How are gender norms perceived?, (co-authors: Leonardo Bursztyn, Bertil Tungodden, Alessandra Voena, David Yanagizawa-Drott).

• Free to fail? Paternalistic preferences in the United States (co-authors: Björn Bartling, Alexander W. Cappelen, Henning Hermes, Marit Skivenes).

• Expectations and social preferences - theory and experimental evidence, (co-authors Matthew Rabin, Erik Ø. Sørensen and Bertil Tungodden). 

• Cooperation Creates Special Moral Obligations, (co-authors Varun Gauri and Bertil Tungodden), Cesifo Working Papers 7052/2018.

• The freedom to choose undermines the willingness to redistribute, (co-authors Sebastian Fest, Erik Ø. Sørensen and Bertil Tungodden), NHH Discussion Paper 27/2014. 

• Willingness to compete in a gender equal society, (co-authors Ingvild Almås, Kjell G. Salvanes, Erik Ø. Sørensen and Bertil Tungodden), NHH Discussion Paper 24/2012. 

• Tax policy and fair inequality, (co-author Bertil Tungodden), NHH Discussion Paper 03/2012. 

• Modeling Individual Choices in Experiments: Random utility versus random behavior, (co-authors Astri Drange Hole, Erik Sørensen and Bertil Tungodden). NHH Discussion Paper 07/2009.

• Desert and neutrality, (co-author Bertil Tungodden). 

• How do social preferences relate to socio-economic history: An experiment on the ILEE-platform, (co-authors Erik Ø. Sørensen, Jean Robert Tyran and Bertil Tungodden).