Bertil Tungodden

Books

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

new publications

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

• Linking social and personal preferences: Theory and experiment, (co-authors: William R. Zame, Erik Ø. Sørensen, Shachar Kariv and Alexander W. Cappelen) 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, Alexander W. Cappelen and Cornelius Cappelen) forthcoming in Journal of Economic Inequality.

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

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

• Experimental evidence on the acceptance of males falling behind, (co-authors: Alexander W. Cappelen and Ranveig Falch) in Journal of European Economic Association, jvaf016, 2025.

• Acceptance of inequality between children: Large-scale experimental evidence from China and Norway, (co-authors: Alexander W. Cappelen, Ranveig Falch and Zhongjing Huang) in The Economic Journal, Volume 135 (667): 999 - 1020, 2025.

• Universalism: Global evidence, (co-authors: Alexander W. Cappelen and Benjamin Enke) in American Economic Review,  Volume: 115 (1): 43-76, 2025.

• Fairness and limited information: Are people Bayesian meritocrats?, (co-authors: Alexander W. Cappelen and Thomas de Haan), in Journal of Public Economics, Volume: 233 (105097), 2024.

• Cancel the deal? An experimental study on exploitation of irrational consumers (co-authors: Alexander W. Cappelen, Stefan Meissner) in Management Science, 0 (0), 2024. 

• Effectiveness of economic support, comprehensive sexuality education and community dialogue on early childbearing and sitting for grade nine exams among adolescent girls in rural Zambia: a cluster randomised trial (co-authors: Ingvild Fossgard Sandøy, Mweetwa Mudenda, Hanne Keyser Hegdahl, Joseph Mumba Zulu, Taran Grønvik, Ecloss Munsaka, Choolwe Jacobs, Joar Svanemyr, Astrid Blystad, Linda Kampata Olowski, Mpundu Chikoya Makasa, Karen Marie Moland, Ottar Mæstad, Amani Thomas Mori, Knut Martin Fylkesnes, Patrick Musonda) in eClinicalMedicine, Volume: 78: 102934, 2024.

• Attitudes to inequality: preferences and beliefs (co-authors: Ingvild Almås, Alexander W. Cappelen and Erik Ø. Sørensen), in Oxford Open Economics, 3 (Supplement_1), i64–i79, 2024.

• 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,  Volume 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, Volume 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, (651): 951–970, 2023.

• We can manage: Experimental evidence from savings groups in Uganda, (co-author: Kjetil Bjorvatn) in Journal of African Economies, Volume 32 (5): 523-546, 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 (646): 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, 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: 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

• Fairness in winner-take-all competitions, (co-authors: Björn Bartling, Alexander W. Cappelen, Mathias Ekström, Erik Ø. Sørensen) 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, Alexander W. Cappelen, Ingvild L. Skarpeid, Erik Ø. Sørensen) invited resubmission in European Economic Review.

Working Papers

• Fairness Across the World (co-authors: Ingvild Almås, Alexander W. Cappelen, Erik Ø. Sørensen) 

• Fairness in a Society of Unequal Opportunities, (co-authors: Alexander W. Cappelen, Yiming Liu, Hedda Nielsen)

• How are gender norms perceived?, (co-authors: Leonardo Bursztyn, Alexander W. Cappelen, 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).

• 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).