Faireness Across the World
The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2026 (with A. W. Cappelen, B. Tungodden and E.Ø. Sørensen), working paper version
The expenditure elasticity for food and calories: Evidence from unconditional cash transfers in Kenya
Journal of Development Economics - Elsevier, 2026 (with Johannes Haushofer and Anders Kjelsrud), NBER working paper version
Human Capital and Development
Handbook of Development Economics - Elsevier, 2026 (with Costas Meghir and Philippe Aghion), NBER working paper version
Experimental Evidence on Attitudes Toward Inequality and Fairness
Annual Review of Economics, 2025 (with P. Hufe and D. Weishaar)
Destructive Behaviour, Judgement, and Economic Decision-making under Thermal Stress
The Economic Journal, 2025 (with M. Auffhammer, T. Bold, I. Bolliger, A. Dembo, S.M. Hsiang, S. Kitamura, E. Miguel, R. Pickmans). NBER working paper version. Media coverage: NPR, CNN
Economics and Measurement: New Measures to Model Decision Making
Econometrica, 2024 (with O. Attanasio and P. Jervis) — NBER working paper version
The Macroeconomics of Pandemics Around the World: Lives versus Livelihoods Revisited
Journal of Development Economics, 2023 (with T. Bold, T. von Carnap, S. Ghisolfi, J. Sandefur)
Equality of Opportunity: Fairness Preferences and Beliefs about Inequality
in Handbook of Equality of Opportunity, Springer, 2023 (with P. Hufe and D. Weishaar)
Household Decisions and Intra-Household Distributions (Ch. 3)
Elsevier Handbook of the Economics of the Family, 2023 (with O. Attanasio and P. Carneiro)
The Economics of Hypergamy
Journal of Human Resources, 2023 (with A. Kotsadam, E. Moen, K. Røed)
Understanding Inequality within Households
Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, 2022 (with C. Ringdal and I. Sjursen)
Global Evidence on the Selfish Rich Inequality Hypothesis
PNAS, 2022 (with A. Cappelen, E. Sørensen, B. Tungodden)
Predicted COVID-19 Fatality Rates Based on Age, Sex, Comorbidities and Health System Capacity
BMJ Global Health, 2020 (with S. Ghisolfi, T. von Carnap, J. Heitner, J. Sandefur, T. Bold)
Cutthroat Capitalism versus Cuddly Socialism: Are Americans More Meritocratic and Efficiency-Seeking than Scandinavians?
Journal of Political Economy, 2020 (with A. Cappelen and B. Tungodden)
Saving and Bequest in China: An Analysis of Intergenerational Exchange
Economica, 2019 (with E. Freddi and Ø. Thøgersen)
The Cost of a Growth Miracle — Reassessing Poverty and Inequality Trends in China
Review of Economic Dynamics - Elsevier, 2018 (with Å. Johnsen)
Measuring and Changing Control: Women's Empowerment and Targeted Transfers
The Economic Journal, 2018 (with A. Armand, O. Attanasio, P. Carneiro) - NBER working paper version
Using Data Differently and Using Different Data
Journal of Development Effectiveness, 2018 (with O. Attanasio, J. Jalan, F. Oteiza, M. Vigneri)
A Behaviour-Based Approach to the Estimation of Poverty in India
Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2017 (with A. Kjelsrud and R. Somanathan)
The PPP Approach Revisited: A Study of RMB Valuation against the USD
Journal of International Money and Finance, 2017 (with M. Grewal, M. Hvide, S. Ugurlu)
Rags and Riches: Relative Prices, Non-Homothetic Preferences, and Inequality in India
World Development, 2017 (with A. Kjelsrud)
Willingness to Compete: Family Matters
Management Science, 2016 (with A. Cappelen, K. Salvanes, E. Sørensen, B. Tungodden)
What Explains the Gender Gap in College Track Dropout?
American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings, 2016 (with A. Cappelen, K. Salvanes, E. Sørensen, B. Tungodden)
Fairness and Family Background
Politics, Philosophy and Economics, 2016 (with A. Cappelen, K. Salvanes, E. Sørensen, B. Tungodden)
International Income Inequality: Measuring PPP Bias by Estimating Engel Curves for Food
American Economic Review, 2012
Older or Wealthier? The Impact of Age Adjustments on Wealth Inequality Ranking of Countries
Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2012 (with M. Mogstad)
Adjusting for Age Effects in Cross-Sectional Distributions
Stata Journal, 2012 (with T. Havnes and M. Mogstad)
Measuring Unfair (In)equality
Journal of Public Economics, 2011 (with A. Cappelen, J. Lind, E. Sørensen, B. Tungodden)
Baby Booming Inequality? Demographic Change and Inequality in Norway, 1967–2004
Journal of Economic Inequality, 2011 (with T. Havnes and M. Mogstad)
Fairness and the Development of Inequality Acceptance
Science, 2010 (with A. Cappelen, E. Sørensen, B. Tungodden)
Equalizing Income versus Equalizing Opportunity: A Comparison of the United States and Germany
Research on Economic Inequality, 2008
The Effect of Gender-Targeted Transfers: Experimental Evidence from India
CEPR Discussion Paper No. 15218 (with V. Somville and L. Vandewalle)
Adverse Selection into Competition: Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment in Tanzania
NHH Discussion Paper No. 19/2020 (with L.I. Oppedal Berge, K. Bjorvatn, V. Somville and B. Tungodden)
Early Childcare Attendance and Cognitive Skills in Adolescence
NBER Working Paper 35109, 2026 (with N. Drange, C. Meghir, H. D. Zachrisson)
Cash or Care? The effectiveness and costs of unconditional cash transfers, a parenting intervention, and their combination in Tanzania: a multi-arm cluster randomised controlled trial
Manuscript in preparation (with Orazio Attanasio, Theresa S. Betancourt, Marc H. Bornstein, Bet H. Caeyers, Ester Elisaria, Tillmann Eymess, Pamela Jervis, Honorati Masanja, Costas Meghir, Pallavi Prabhakar, Charlotte Ringdal, and Bianca Yue)
Two-year implementation trajectory of a large-scale digital-app-supported parenting intervention embedded in the community health system in Tanzania: A mixed-method process evaluation
Manuscript in preparation (with Bet Caeyers, Theresa S. Betancourt, Ester Elisaria, Kate Gooding, Pamela Jervis, Honorati Masanja, Macklina Mhagama, Deogardius Medardi, Pallavi Prabhakar, and Laura Van Der Erve)
Father engagement and support to mothers: the policy elasticity of child-related spending
THRIVE Working Paper, 2025 (with Bet Caeyers, Tillmann Eymess, Pamela Jervis, and Charlotte Ringdal)
Targeting meets constraints: cash transfers, digital access and women's empowerment
THRIVE Working Paper, 2025 (with Bet Caeyers and Pallavi Prabhakar)
Rettferdig ulikhet
Magma, 2015 (with A. Cappelen, I. Haaland, B. Tungodden)
Modernisert men mindre rettferdig folketrygd
Samfunnsøkonomene, 2012 (with S. Robstad)
Fra kinesernes sparing til global vekst
Magma, 2012 (with G. Liane, Ø. Thøgersen)
Et valg i blinde?
Magma, 2012 (with K. Salvanes, E. Sørensen)