In December of 2018 I successfully defended my PhD-thesis: Bounds of reason: Exploring behavioral public policy interventions at Norwegian University of Science and Technology. The thesis is a part of an ongoing pursuit within the field of behavioral economics to define boundaries of traditional incentives (i.e. price mechanism) and to suggest a complementary set of incentives in order to optimize cost efficiency of future policy interventions.

The thesis consisted of four articles on based on two natural- and two field experiments; each evaluating specific aspects of other-regarding behavior such as generosity avoidance (opting out), motivational crowding out, nudging, and gender differences in preference for efficiency. Two articles are already published in Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization and Economics letters respectively and the other two are forthcoming in 2020.

My main research interests are Behavioral and Experimental Economics, gender differences and Econometrics. Recent work has focused on gender differences in efficiency preferences and public policy interventions (e.g. nudging). During my work as a PhD I primly taught statistics at both undergraduate- and graduate level.

If you are interested in reading my PhD-thesis, or any of the published articles, you can find links under the Publications-tab. If you want to know more about my background, feel free to download a PDF-version of my CV here. You can also visit my Google Scholar page.