Bertil Tungodden

Professor, Norwegian School of Economics (NHH)

I am a professor at the Department of Economics, NHH Norwegian School of Economics, Scientific Director of the Centre of Excellence FAIR (Centre for Experimental Research on Fairness, Inequality and Rationality), co-director of the research group The Choice Lab, and Einstein Visiting Fellow at Humboldt University in Berlin. I am an associate editor in Journal of Political Economy and Social Choice and Welfare, and a member of the new Strategy committee of the European Economic Association.

My research spans behavioral and experimental economics, development economics, distributive justice and social choice theory. I presently have an ERC Advanced Grant on the project “Fairness and the moral mind” and a Research Excellence Grant from the Research Council of Norway on “Fair inequality and personal responsibility.”

Contact: bertil.tungodden@nhh.no

FAIR NHH: www.nhh.no/en/research-centres/fair/

Department of Economics NHH: https://www.nhh.no/en/employees/faculty/bertil-tungodden/

Books

The Economics of Fairness (edited together with Alexander W. Cappelen). 2019. Edward Elgar Publishing.

new publications

Acceptance of inequality between children: Large-scale experimental evidence from China and Norway, (co-authors: Alexander W. Cappelen, Ranveig Falch and Zhongjing Huang) forthcoming in Economic Journal.
Universalism: Global evidence, (co-authors: Alexander W. Cappelen and Benjamin Enke) forthcoming in American Economic Review.
Fairness and limited information: Are people Bayesian meritocrats?, (co-authors: Alexander W. Cappelen and Thomas de Haan) forthcoming in Journal of Public Economics.
Cancel the deal? An experimental study on exploitation of irrational customers (co-authors: Alexander W. Cappelen, Stefan Meissner) forthcoming in Management Science.
The development gap in economic rationality of future elites, (co-authors: Alexander W. Cappelen, 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: Alexander W. Cappelen and Cornelius Cappelen), in American Economic Review, 113 (9): 2458-85, 2023.
The merit primacy effect, (co-authors: Alexander W. Cappelen, Karl Ove Moene, and Siv-Elisabeth Skjelbred),in Economic Journal, Volume 133, Issue 651, Pages 951–970, 2023.
Exercise improves academic performance, (co-authors: Alexander W. Cappelen Gary Charness, Mathias Ekström and Uri Gneezy), forthcoming in Journal of Political Economy.
We can manage: Experimental evidence from savings groups in Uganda, (co-author: Kjetil Bjorvatn) in Journal of African Economies, Volume 32, Issue 5, Pages 523-546, December 2022.
The future of human behavior research, Nature Human Behavior 5th anniversary edition, page 17, 2022.
A meritocratic origin of egalitarian behavior, (co-authors: Alexander W. Cappelen, Johanna Mollerstrom, and Bjørn-Atle Reme), Economic Journal, Volume 132, Issue 646, Pages 2101–2117, August 2022.
Global evidence on the selfish rich inequality hypothesis, (co-authors: Ingvild Almås, Alexander W. Cappelen, 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, Alexander W. Cappelen, Uri Gneezy, and Moshe Hoffman), Economics and Human Biology, Volume 43, December 2021.
Understanding the resource curse: A large-scale experiment on corruption in Tanzania, (co-authors: Alexander W. Cappelen, Odd-Helge Fjeldstad, Donald Mmari, and Ingrid Hoem Sjursen), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization,183: 129-157, 2021.
Solidarity and fairness in times of crisis, (co-authors: Alexander W. Cappelen, Ranveig Falch, and Erik Ø. Sørensen), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Volume 186, June 2021, Pages 1-11, 2021.
Elections and selfishness, (co-authors: Kjetil Bjorvatn, Simon Galle, Lars Ivar Oppedal Berge, Edward Miguel, Daniel Posner, Kelly Zhang), Electoral Studies, 69(2): 102267, 2021.
Choice and personal responsibility: What is a morally relevant choice?, (co-authors: Alexander W. Cappelen, Sebastian Fest, and Erik Ø. Sørensen), Review of Economics and Statistics, 104(5): 1-35, December 2020.
New chapter: Fair and unfair income inequality, (co authors: Alexander W. Cappelen and Ranveig Falch), Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, 2020.
You’ve got mail: A randomized field experiment on tax evasion, (co-authors: Kristina Bott, Alexander W. Cappelen, and Erik Ø. Sørensen), Management Science, 66(7): 2801-3294, 2020.
The effect of early childhood education on social preferences, (co-authors: Alexander Cappelen, John List, and Anya Samek), Journal of Political Economy, 128(7): 2739-2758, 2020.
Teaching through television: Experimental evidence on entrepreneurship education in Tanzania, (co-authors: Kjetil Bjorvatn, Alexander W. Cappelen, Linda Helgesson Sekei, and Erik Ø. Sørensen), Management Science, 66(6): 2291-2799, 2020.
Cutthroat capitalism versus cuddly socialism: Are Americans more meritocratic and efficiency-seeking than Scandinavians?, (co-authors: Ingvild Almås, and Alexander W. Cappelen), 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, Alexander Cappelen, 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), 2020.
Ethnically biased? Experimental evidence from Kenya, (co-authors: Lars Ivar Oppedal Berge, Kjetil Bjorvatn, Simon Galle, Edward Miguel, Daniel N. Posner, and Kelly Zhang), Journal of the European Economic Association, 18(1): 134-164, 2020.

Invited resubmissions

Experimental evidence on the acceptance of males falling behind, (co-authors: Alexander W. Cappelen and Ranveig Falch) invited resubmission in Journal of European Economic Association.
How are gender norms perceived?, (co-authors: Leonardo Bursztyn, Alexander W. Cappelen, Alessandra Voena, David Yanagizawa-Drott) invited resubmission in Econometrica.
Fairness and willingness to compete, (co-authors: Thomas Buser and Alexander W. Cappelen) invited resubmission in Experimental Economics.
Linking social and personal preferences: Theory and experiment, (co-authors: Alexander W. Cappelen, Shachar Kariv, Erik Ø. Sørensen, and Bill Zame) invited resubmission in Journal of Political Economy.

Working Papers

Free to fail? Paternalistic preferences in the United States (co-authors: Björn Bartling, Alexander W. Cappelen, Henning Hermes, Marit Skivenes).
Inequality acceptance in China: Fairness views, inequality beliefs, and policy attitudes in a socialist market economy, (co-authors: Ingvild Almås, Caroline Bonn, Alexander W. Cappelen and Cornelius Cappelen).
On the doorstep of adulthood: Empowering economic and fertility choices of young women, (co-authors: Lars Ivar Oppedal Berge, Kjetil Bjorvatn, Fortunata Makene, Linda Helgesson Sekei and Vincent Somville).
Adverse selection into competition: Evidence from a large-scale field experiment in Tanzania, (co-authors: Ingvild Almås, Lars Ivar Oppedal Berge, Kjetil Bjorvatn, and Vincent Somville).