Publications
Books
The Economics of Fairness (edited together with Alexander W. Cappelen). 2019. Edward Elgar Publishing.
Towards Pro-Poor Policies - Aid, Institutions, Globalization (edited together with Nick Stern and Ivar Kolstad). 2004. World Bank and Oxford University Press.
Articles - published in international journals and books
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, 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 W. 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 W. 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.
Fairness in bankruptcy situations: An experimental study (co-authors Alexander W. Cappelen, Roland Luttens and Erik Ø. Sørensen), Management Science, 65(6): 2445-2945, 2019.
The development of children’s preferences for equality and equity (co-authors Elizabeth Huppert, Jason M. Cowell, Yawei Cheng, Carlos Contreras-Ibañes, Natalia Gomez-Sicard, Luz Maria Gonzalez-Gaeda, David Huepe, Agustin Ibanez, Kang Lee, Randa Mahasneh, Susan Malcolm-Smith, Natalia Salas, Bilge Selcuk, Alina Wong, Xinyue Zhou and Jean Decety), Developmental Science, 21(5), 2018.
How to retrench the welfare state: Attitudes in the general population (co-authors Alexander W. Cappelen, Cornelius Cappelen and Stein Kuhnle), Social Policy & Administration, 52(4): 862-879, 2018.
Fairness and the proportionality principle (co-author Alexander W. Cappelen), Social Choice and Welfare, 49(3-4): 709-719, 2017.
Fairness and family background (co-authors Ingvild Almås, Alexander W. Cappelen, Kjell Gunnar Salvanes, and Erik Ø. Sørensen), Philosophy, Politics and Economics, 16 (2):117-131, 2017.
Face-saving or fair-minded: What motivates moral behavior? (co-authors Alexander W. Cappelen, Trond Halvorsen and Erik Ø. Sørensen), Journal of European Economic Association, 15(3): 540-557, 2017.
Is it ok to get paid more for being lucky? (co-authors Ingvild Almås and Alexander W. Cappelen), in Harvard Business Review, 2017.
Willingness to compete: Family matters (co-authors Ingvild Almås, Alexander W. Cappelen, Kjell Gunnar Salvanes, and Erik Ø. Sørensen), Management Science, 62(8): 2149-2162, 2016.
What explains the gender gap in college track dropout? Experimental and administrative evidence (co-authors Ingvild Almås, Alexander W. Cappelen, Kjell Gunnar Salvanes, and Erik Ø. Sørensen), American Economic Review Papers and Proceeding, 106(5): 296-302, 2016.
Fairness is intuitive (co-authors Alexander W. Cappelen, Ulrik H. Nielsen, Erik Ø. Sørensen, Jean Robert Tyran, and Erik Wengström), Experimental Economics, 19(4): 727-740, 2016.
Effectiveness of a girls’ empowerment programme on early childbearing, marriage and school dropout among adolescent girls in rural Zambia: study protocol for a cluster randomized trial (co-authors Ingvild Fossgard Sandøy, Mweetwa Mudenda, Joseph Zulu, Ecloss Munsaka, Astrid Blystad, Mpundu C. Makasa, Ottar Mæstad, Choolwe Jacobs, Linda Kampata, Knut Fylkesnes, Joar Svanemyr, Karen Marie Moland, Richard Banda and Patrick Musonda), Trials, 17:588, 2016.
Leadership and incentives (co-authors Alexander W. Cappelen, Bjørn Atle Reme, and Erik Ø. Sørensen), Management Science, 62(7): 1944-1953, 2015.
Introduction to special issue on "Economic experiments in the lab and in the field in developing countries" (co-authors Shachar Kariv and Jane Zhang), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 118(10): 1-414, 2015.
Competitive in the lab, successful in the field? (co-authors Kjetil Bjorvatn, Lars Ivar Oppedal Berge, and Armando Pires), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 118: 303-317, 2015.
Disabled by stereotype? (co-authors Kjetil Bjorvatn, Lars Ivar Oppedal Berge, and Armando Pires), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 118: 268-280, 2015.
The role of human and financial capital in microenterprise development: Experimental evidence from Tanzania (co-authors Kjetil Bjorvatn and Lars Ivar Oppedal Berge), Management Science, 61(4): 707-722, 2015.
The tyranny puzzle in social preferences: An empirical investigation (co-authors Frank Cowell and Mark Fleurbaey), Social Choice and Welfare, 45(4): 765-792, 2015.
Social preferences in the lab: A comparison of students and a representative population (co-authors Alexander W. Cappelen, Knut Nygaard, and Erik Ø. Sørensen), Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 117(4): 1306-1326, 2015.
Equity theory and fair inequality: a neuroeconomic study (co-authors Alexander W. Cappelen, Tom Eichele, Kenneth Hugdahl, Karsten Specht, and Erik Ø. Sørensen ), Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 111(43): 15369-15372, 2014.
An experimental study of social preferences among prisoners (co-authors Sigbjørn Birkeland, Alexander W. Cappelen, and Erik Ø. Sørensen), Experimental Economics, 17(4): 501-511, 2014.
Fairness motivation in bargaining: A matter of principle (co-author Sigbjørn Birkeland), Theory and Decision, 77:125-151, 2014.
Do non-enforceable contracts matter: Evidence from an international lab experiment (co-authors Alexander W. Cappelen, Rune Jansen Hagen, and Erik Ø. Sørensen), Review of Income and Wealth, 60(1): 100-113, 2014.
Liberal resourcism: problems and possibilities (co-author Petter Vallentyne), Journal of Social Philosophy, 44: 348-69, 2013.
Just luck: An experimental study of risk taking and fairness (co-authors Alexander W. Cappelen, James Konow and Erik Ø. Sørensen), American Economic Review, 103(4): 1398-1413, 2013.
When do we lie? (co-authors Alexander W. Cappelen and Erik Ø. Sørensen), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 92: 258-265, 2013.
Give and take in dictator games (co-authors Alexander W. Cappelen, Ulrik Haagen Nielsen, Erik Ø. Sørensen, and Jean Robert Tyran), Economics Letters, 118(2): 280-283, 2013.
Heterogeneity in fairness views - a challenge to the mutualistic approach? (co-author Alexander W. Cappelen), Brain and Behavioral Sciences, 36(1): 84-85, 2013.
Needs vs entitlements - an international fairness experiment (co-authors Alexander W. Cappelen, Karl Ove Moene and Erik Ø. Sørensen), Journal of European Economic Association, 11(3): 574–598, 2013.
Business training in Tanzania: From research driven experiment to local implementation (coauthors Lars Ivar Berge, Kjetil Bjorvatn and Kartika Juniwaty), Journal of African Economies, 22(5): 808–827, 2012.
Sustainable recursive social welfare functions (co-authors Geir B. Asheim and Tapan Mitra), Economic Theory, 49: 267–292, 2012.
Measuring unfair (in)equality (co-authors Ingvild Almås, Alexander W. Cappelen, Jo Thori Lind, and Erik Ø. Sørensen), Journal of Public Economics, 95(7-8): 488–499, 2011.
Distributive interdependencies in liberal egalitarianism (co-author Alexander W. Cappelen), Social Choice and Welfare, 46(1): 35–47, 2011.
The importance of moral reflection and self-reported data in a dictator game with production (coauthors Alexander W. Cappelen, Astrid D. Hole, and Erik Ø. Sørensen), Social Choice and Welfare, 46(1): 105–120, 2011.
Disability compensation and responsibility (co-author Alexander W. Cappelen), Politics, Philosophy and Economics, 9(4): 411–427, 2010.
The tyranny of aggregation versus the tyranny of non-aggregation (co-author Marc Fleurbaey), Economic Theory, 44(3): 399–414, 2010.
Demand for childhood vaccination: Insights from behavioral economics (co-authors Alexander W. Cappelen and Ottar Mæstad), Forum for Development Studies, 33(1): 349–364, 2010.
Teaching business in Tanzania: Evaluating participation and performance (co-author Kjetil Bjorvatn), Journal of European Economic Association, 8(2-3): 561–570, 2010.
Fairness and the development of inequality acceptance (co-authors Ingvild Almås, Alexander W. Cappelen and Erik Ø. Sørensen), Science, 328 (5982), 1176–1178, 2010.
Responsibility for what? Fairness and individual responsibility (co-authors Alexander W. Cappelen and Erik Ø. Sørensen), European Economic Review, 54(3), 429–44, 2010.
On the possibility of non-aggregative priority for the worst off (co-authors Marc Fleurbaey and Peter Vallentyne), Social Philosophy and Policy, 26: 258–285. Simultaneously published in Utilitarianism, 2009.
The aggregation problem (co-authors Marc Fleurbaey and Peter Vallentyne, edited by Ellen Frankel Paul, Fred D. Miller Jr., and Jeffrey Paul, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press: 258–285, 2009.
Equality and priority in Oxford Handbook of Rational and Social Choice, edited by P. Anand, P. Pattanaik and C. Puppe, Oxford University Press, ch. 17, 2009.
Rewarding effort (co-author Alexander W. Cappelen), Economic Theory, 39(3): 425–441, 2009.
Genomics and equal opportunity ethics (co-authors Alexander W. Cappelen and Ole Frithjof Norheim), Journal of Medical Ethics, 34(5): 361–364, 2008.
Justice: Current perspectives in The New Palgrave Dictionary in Economics 2nd edition. L. Blume and S. Durlauf (eds.), Palgrave Macmillian, 2008.
The pluralism of fairness ideals: An experimental approach (co-authors Alexander W. Cappelen, Astri D. Hole and Erik Ø. Sørensen), American Economic Review, 97(3): 818–827, 2008.
Redistribution and marginal productivity reward (co-author Alexander W. Cappelen), Research on Economic Inequality, 15: 1–6, 2007.
National responsibility and the just distribution of debt relief (co-authors Alexander W. Cappelen and Rune Jansen Hagen), Ethics and International Affairs, 21(1): 69–83, 2007. Also published in Dealing fairly with developing country debt, edited by Christian Barry and Barry Herman, Wiley-Blackwell, ch. 7, 2007.
Local autonomy and interregional equality (co-author Alexander W. Cappelen), Social Choice and Welfare, 28(3): 443–460, 2007.
A new equity condition for infinite utility streams and the possibility of being Paretian (coauthors Geir Asheim and Tapan Mitra), in Intergenerational equity and sustainability, edited by John Roemer and Kotaro Suzumura, Palgrave Publishers Ltd., ch.4, 2007.
Person-affecting Paretian egalitarianism with variable population size (co-author Peter Vallentyne), in Intergenerational equity and sustainability, edited by John Roemer and Kotaro Suzumura, Palgrave Publishers Ltd, ch. 7, 2007.
Relocating the responsibility cut: Should more responsibility imply less redistribution? (co-author Alexander W. Cappelen), Politics, Philosophy and Economics, 3: 353–362, 2006.
Who are the least advantaged? (co-author Peter Vallentyne), in Egalitarianism: New essays on the nature and value of equality, edited by Nils Holtug and Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen, Oxford University Press: 174-195, 2006.
A liberal egalitarian paradox (co-author Alexander W. Cappelen), Economics and Philosophy, 22(3): 393–408, 2006.
On the possibility of Paretian egalitarianism (co-author Peter Vallentyne), Journal of Philosophy, 102: 126–154, 2005.
Poverty measurement: The critical comparison value Social Choice and Welfare, 25: 75–84, 2005.
Responsibility and redistribution: The case of first best taxation Social Choice and Welfare, 24: 33-44, 2005.
Some reflections on the role of moral reasoning in economics Nordic Journal of Political Economy: 49–59, 2004.
Resolving distributional conflicts between generations (co-author: Geir B. Asheim), Economic Theory, 24:221–230, 2004. Also published in Justifying, characterizing and indicating sustainability, Geir B. Asheim, Springer, 2007.
The indexing impasse: Is ’the intersection approach’ a solution? (co-author, Bernt Christian Brun), Social Choice and Welfare, 22: 49–60, 2004.
Any non-welfarist method of policy assessment violates the Pareto-principle: A comment (coauthors Marc Fleurbaey and Howard Chang), Journal of Political Economy, 6: 1382–1385, 2003.
The value of equality Economics and Philosophy, 19 (1): 1–44, 2003.
Reward and Responsibility: How should we be affected when others change their effort (co-author Alexander W. Cappelen), Politics, Philosophy and Economics, 2 (2): 191–211, 2003.
Fiscal corruption: A vice or a virtue: A reply (co-author Odd-Helge Fjeldstad), World Development, 31 (8): 1473–75, 2003.
Fiscal corruption: A vice or a virtue? (co-author Odd-Helge Fjeldstad), World Development, 31 (8): 1459–1467, 2003.
Responsibility and Reward (co-author Alexander W. Cappelen), Finanzarchiv, 59: 120–140, 2003.
A balanced view of development as freedom Forum for Development Studies, 2: 241–261, 2001. (Reprinted in Ivar Kolstad and Hugo Stokke (eds), Writing rights, Fagbokforlaget, Norway, 2005).
Justifying sustainability (co-authors Geir. B. Asheim and Wolfgang Buchholz), Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2: 252–268, 2001. Also published in Justifying, characterizing and indicating sustainability, Geir B. Asheim, Springer, 2007.
Egalitarianism: Is leximin the only option? Economics and Philosophy, 16: 229–245, 2000.
Rawlsian reasoning and the distribution problem Social Choice and Welfare, 16: 599–614, 1999.
Is poverty costly for the non-poor? (co-author Ottar Mæstad), Forum for Development Studies, 2:251–277, 1997.
Poverty and justice: A rawlsian framework Nordic Journal of Political Economy, 23(2): 89–105, 1996.
Book reviews in international journals
David Gordon and Peter Townsend (eds). The measurement of poverty. The Policy Press, 2000.
Chiara Saraceno (ed.). Social assistance dynamics in Europe. National and local poverty regimes. The Policy Press, 2002. Review published in International Sociology, 19(2). Sabina Alkire, 2004.
Sabina Alkire. Valuing freedoms - Sen’s capability approach and poverty reduction. Oxford University Press, 2001. Review published in International Development Ethics Association Electronic Newsletter, October 2003.
Articles published in national journals and books (in Norwegian)
Fair inequality (co-authors: Ingvild Almås, Alexander W. Cappelen, and Ingar Haaland), Magma, 6: 38–43, 2015.
Rettferdighet på hjernen (co-authors: Alexander W. Cappelen, Erik Ø. Sørensen), Magma, 2: 34-39, 2014.
Behavioral economics and economic experiments (co-author: Alexander W. Cappelen), Magma, 4: 3–6, 2012.
Incentives and effort (co-author: Alexander W. Cappelen), Magma, 5: 48–44, 2012.
Efficiency and ethics–the idea of moral division of labour (co-author Alexander W. Cappelen), Praktisk Økonomi og Finans, 4: 3–6, 2006.
Corruption and tax evasion in Tanzania (co-author Odd-Helge Fjeldstad), Den Nye Verden, 3: 55–79, 2001.
Social choice theory, Sosialøkonomen, 3: 18–26, 1999.
Can poverty be abolished?, Norsk Økonomisk Tidsskrift, 110: 115–135, 1996.
Poverty and insurance, in A. Rødseth og C. Riis, Markets, resources and distribution. Ad Notam Gyldendal, 281–295, 1998.
Population growth (co-author K. Bjorvatn), in R. J. Hagen and K. R. Pedersen (eds.), Distribution and growth in poor countries. Fagbokforlaget, 323–340, 1998.
What is development?, in R. J. Hagen and K. R. Pedersen (eds.), Distribution and growth in poor countries. Fagbokforlaget, 31–56, 1998.
Famines and aid (co-author, E. Ø. Sørensen), in R. J. Hagen and K. R. Pedersen (eds.), Distribution and growth in poor countries. Fagbokforlaget, 145–166, 1998.
Book reviews - published in national journals (in Norwegian)
Frode Nyeng. Ethics and economics - an introduction. Abstrakt Forlag, 2002. Review published in Økonomisk Forum, 2003, 2: 41–43.
Newspaper articles (in Norwegian)
Efficiency and ethics (co-author, Alexander Cappelen), Bergens Tidende, September 27, 2001.
"Amartya K. Sen - The Nobel Prize in economics" (co-author, Andreas Føllesdal), Aftenposten, October 28, 1998.