Curious about what we have been working on over the past year? The FAIR Annual Report 2025 is now available!✨
🔗Read the report here: www.nhh.no/en/research-...
Curious about what we have been working on over the past year? The FAIR Annual Report 2025 is now available!✨
🔗Read the report here: www.nhh.no/en/research-...
🎉Congratulations to Katrine Løken on being appointed to the government’s expert committee reviewing the future organization of NAV, contributing her expertise to improve services and strengthen labor market inclusion in Norway!
Read more here:
www.regjeringen.no/no/aktuelt/f...
📄 Kjetil Bjorvatn, Selim Gulesci, Arne Nasgowitz and Vincent Somville, with Denise Ferris and Lore Vandewalle, have published a new paper in the Journal of Development Studies: “Cash Transfers and Business Survival During Covid: Evidence from Uganda.”
🔗 Read the paper here:
doi.org/10.1080/0022...
📄Vincent Somville and Jingyao Wei, with Leandro Carvalho, Damien de Walque, Crick Lund, and Heather Schofield, have published a paper the Journal of Development Economics: “Psychological Barriers to Participation in the Labour Market: Evidence from Rural Ghana”.
🔗Read more doi.org/10.1016/j.jd...
💬Today, Alexander W. Cappelen is a keynote speaker at the University of Bologna, presenting The Origins of Gender Differences in Competitiveness.
🔗https://dse.unibo.it/en/agenda-events/event/experimental-approaches-to-gender-inequality-stereotypes-norms-and-women-s-achievements-in-the-labour-market
✨Congratulations to Adrien Dautheville for defending his PhD thesis titled "Essays on Overconfidence and Development Economics"! 🎉
🔗https://www.nhh.no/en/research-centres/fair/news/2025/phd-defense/
🎤 Today, Kjell G. Salvanes (FAIR) is a keynote speaker at LESE 2026 at Nova SBE in Lisbon, presenting The Decline in Routine Tasks, Educational Investments, and Intergenerational Mobility.
🔗 2026.lese-conference.org
🔎 Kjell G. Salvanes appointed to expert committee!
Kjell will serve on a committee evaluating Norway’s housing support scheme — looking at its impact on living conditions, how it interacts with other benefits, and whether changes are needed.
👉 Read more: www.regjeringen.no/no/aktuelt/u...
🎙️ This week, Alexander W. Cappelen joined the student radio show Bærtur!
The conversation dives into the ethics of Norway’s Oil Fund, the importance of research groups like FAIR, and different ways of understanding fairness.
🔗Listen: open.spotify.com/episode/1rlx...
EUDN Scientific Conference 2026!
FAIR and NHH Norwegian School of Economics will host the EUDN Scientific Conference in Bergen on May 6–7, 2026. The program will consist of about 12 papers presented over two days, covering a broad range of topics in development economics.
📄 New Journal of Political Economy publication!
Alexander W. Cappelen, Mathias Ekström and Bertil Tungodden, with Gary Charness and Uri Gneezy, have a paper out in the January 2026 issue of the JPE: “Exercise Improves Academic Performance.
🔗Read the paper: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
The 2026 Symposium on Economic Experiments in Developing Countries (SEEDEC) takes place June 11–12 at @durham.ac.uk , hosted by EMBR . Keynotes: Anandi Mani & Pedro Carneiro.
Submit by Feb 28 👉 forms.gle/SZuSdyUaYdbj...
Read more about the symposium: www.durham.ac.uk/business/new...
📄 New American Economic Review publication!
Kjell G. Salvanes, with Philipp Ager and Marc Goñi, has a paper out in the latest issue of the AER: “Gender-Biased Technological Change: Milking Machines and the Exodus of Women from Farming.”
Read the paper here: www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
✨Happy Holidays from FAIR✨
Thank you to our researchers, collaborators, and followers for a year of insightful research and engaging discussions. We look forward to the year ahead!
Congratulations to Bertil Tungodden!🎉
We’re thrilled to announce that Bertil Tungodden has been appointed a Fellow of the Royal Economic Society (RES) — a prestigious recognition in the field of economics!
See the full list of new Fellows here:
res.org.uk/the-royal-ec...
🎉 Congratulations to our researchers!
FAIR researchers Katrine Vellesen Løken, Alexander L.P. Willén, and Aline Bütikofer have been awarded prestigious funding from the Research Council of Norway to conduct groundbreaking research.
🔗Read more: www.forskningsradet.no/nyheter/2025...
🔎Check out Morten Nyborg Støstad’s opinion piece in E24.
In response to a recent interview with Jan Petter Sissener, the article challenges claims that downplay the social effects of rising economic differences, highlighting that most Norwegians see inequality as harmful.
🔗 e24.no/norsk-oekono...
🎧Today, Catalina Franco joins the student radio show Bærtur! She discusses her research on gender, education and artificial intelligence.
Listen live on FM 107.8 at 10:00, or catch the podcast version here: open.spotify.com/episode/4x6e...
👩🎓How do school peers influence who gets into elite education?
In “First-Generation Elite: The Role of School Social Networks”, Sarah Cattan, Kjell G. Salvanes, and Emma Tominey shows how school networks matters greatly for who enters elite university programmes.
🔗 www.nhh.no/en/research-...
💬Parental Leave, Prison, and Brain Drain
Check out Scientific Sense latest episode with Professor Katrine Vellesen Løken!
🎧Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
Excited to see our research featured by AIBM today, showing that people are less willing to help men when they fall behind — and that effort beliefs drive this pattern.
@fair-thechoicelab.bsky.social
@aibm.bsky.social
aibm.org/research/why...
#EconJobMarket
✨Meet Pallavi Prabhakar, JM-candidate at the Department of Economics at NHH Bergen.
🕵️♀️Fields of interest: Development Economics
📘JMP: Bottom Up Accountability? Information, Expectations and Civic Action in India
🔗Read more about the JM-candidates here: www.nhh.no/en/departmen...
❓ What do people’s own words reveal about their economic decisions?
A new JEL article by Ingar Haaland, Christopher Roth, Stefanie Stantcheva and Johannes Wohlfart shows how open-ended survey responses offer insights that standard surveys often miss.
🔎Read more here: www.nhh.no/en/research-...
🎉 We’re proud to share that Ingar Haaland has been appointed Associate Editor at the Journal of the European Economic Association (JEEA). A major milestone and a testament to his contributions to economic research!
Read more about Ingar’s research here: sites.google.com/site/ingarha...
#EconJobMarket
✨Meet Erika Povea, JM-candidate at the Department of Economics at NHH Bergen.
🕵️♀️Fields of interest: Labour Economics, Economics of Education and Applied Microeconomics
📘JMP: When Organized Crime Moves In: Economic and Human Capital Disruption
🔗Read more: www.nhh.no/en/departmen...
#EconJobMarket
✨Meet Marlis M. Schneider, JM-candidate at the Department of Economics at NHH Bergen.
🕵️♀️Fields of interest: Behavioural economics, Economics of Education, Applied Microeconomics
📘JMP: Biased Parental Beliefs: Experimental Evidence from Norway
🔗Read more: www.nhh.no/.../economic...
🥳Congratulations!
Yesterday, Pallavi Prabhakar won The Norwegian Association for Economists' prize for best paper by a PhD at the annual meeting for her job market paper titled: “Bottom up accountability? Information, Expectations and Civic Action in India”.
#EconJobMarket
✨Meet Adrien Dautheville, JM-candidate at the Department of Economics at NHH Bergen.
🕵️♀️Fields of interest: Development Economics, Behavioural Economics, Economics of Education
📘JMP: Job Seeking Entrepreneurs
🔗Read more about the JM-candidates here: www.nhh.no/.../economic...
💬 Men are opening up — but to chatbots
In a new Aftenposten article, FAIR researchers Catalina Franco, Roberto Caputo, and Ezgi Oral explore why men may turn to AI when talking about mental health.
🔗 Read the article: www.aftenposten.no/meninger/kro...
🌍 Today, FAIR NHH’s Professor and Scientific Director, Bertil Tungodden, joined the ERC Insights event in Bergen, offering insights from his work as an Ambassador for the network.
Read more:
🔗 About the event: www.uib.no/forskning/17...
🔗 About Association of ERC Grantees: aerg.eu