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FAIR - The Choice Lab @fair-thechoicelab.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

📣 New publication in Nature Human Behaviour! When is inequality fair? Why can people who agree on the ideal of meritocracy still disagree about redistribution? Alexander W. Cappelen and Bertil Tungodden have published “Meritocracy and Inequality Acceptance”. Read more: www.nhh.no/en/research-...

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FAIR - The Choice Lab @fair-thechoicelab.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

New publication in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin! Hallgeir Sjåstad, together with co-authors, has published “Does Self-Projection Have a Dominant Temporal Direction? In Nine Countries, People Feel More Similar to Their Future Than Past Selves.” Read more: www.nhh.no/en/research-...

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FAIR - CELE @fair-cele.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

🔎New publication in Health Policy and Planning! Vincent Somville, together with co-authors, has published “Does Dosage Matter? Effects of Results-Based Financing Layered on Top of Less Comprehensive Direct Facility Financing in Tanzania.” 🔗Read more: www.nhh.no/en/research-...

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FAIR - The Choice Lab @fair-thechoicelab.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

💬Last week, Catalina Franco delivered the keynote lecture “Will Artificial Intelligence Get in the Way of Gender Equality?” at the 9th International Scientific Conference on Business and Economics (ISCBE 2026) at Universidad Europea de Valencia. 🔗Read more: conf.seeu.edu.mk/iscbe2026#ab...

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FAIR - The Choice Lab @fair-thechoicelab.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

📣New publication in the Review of Economics and Statistics! Björn Bartling, Alexander W. Cappelen, Mathias Ekström, Erik Ø. Sørensen, and Bertil Tungodden have published “Fairness in Winner-Take-All Competitions”. Read more: www.nhh.no/en/research-...

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FAIR - CELE @fair-cele.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

✨New publication in International Tax and Public Finance! Vincent Somville, together with co-authors, examine how the salience of mobile money taxes affects financial behavior in Tanzania. 🔗Read more: www.nhh.no/en/research-...

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FAIR - The Choice Lab @fair-thechoicelab.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

📣New publication in Management Science! Anna Hochleitner, together with Sebastian Fehrler and Moritz Janas, have published “Too Good to Be True – Individual and Collective Decision-Making with Misleading Signals.” 🔗Check out the paper here: doi.org/10.1287/mnsc...

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FAIR - The Choice Lab @fair-thechoicelab.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Björn Bartling, Alexander W. Cappelen, Ingvild L. Skarpeid, Erik Ø. Sørensen, and Bertil Tungodden have published “The talent paradox: Why is it fair to reward talent but not luck?” in in the European Economic Review! Check out the article here: doi.org/10.1016/j.eu...

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FAIR - The Choice Lab @fair-thechoicelab.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

📣New publication in the Journal of Political Economy! Bertil Tungodden, Erik Ø. Sørensen, and Alexander W. Cappelen, together with William R. Zame and Shachar Kariv, have published “Linking Social and Personal Preferences: Theory and Experiment.” 🔎Read more: doi.org/10.1086/739832

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FAIR - The Choice Lab @fair-thechoicelab.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

🔎New article in VoxDev! Daniela Horta Sáenz, together with Anderson Tami-Patiño, examine how coca eradication policies affect development in Colombia. 🔗Read the article: voxdev.org/topic/instit...

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FAIR - The Choice Lab @fair-thechoicelab.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

📣New publication! Lars Ivar Oppedal Berge, Kjetil Bjorvatn, Vincent Somville, and Bertil Tungodden, with co-authors, have published a new paper in The Economic Journal: “On the doorstep of adulthood: Entrepreneurship and fertility of young women in Tanzania” 🔗Read more: doi.org/10.1093/ej/u...

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FAIR - CELE @fair-cele.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

🔎New article in VoxDev! Vincent Somville and Jingyao Wei, together with Leandro Carvalho, Damien de Walque, Crick Lund, and Heather Schofield, examine how mental health affects women’s labour force participation in rural Ghana. Read more: voxdev.org/topic/labour...

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FAIR - The Choice Lab @fair-thechoicelab.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Congratulations! We are pleased to announce that Alexander W. Cappelen and Bertil Tungodden have been appointed Associate Editors of the Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics, a leading journal in the field of economics.

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FAIR - The Choice Lab @fair-thechoicelab.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

📣 FAIR is hiring a Postdoctoral Researcher in Labour/Public/Health Economics! Join an international research environment at NHH and work on sustainable care systems, including elder care in the Nordic countries. 📅 Deadline: 10 April 2026 🔗 Read more: www.nhh.no/en/research-...

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FAIR - The Choice Lab @fair-thechoicelab.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

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-...

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FAIR - CELE @fair-cele.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

🎉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...

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FAIR - The Choice Lab @fair-thechoicelab.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

📄 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...

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FAIR - CELE @fair-cele.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

📄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...

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FAIR - The Choice Lab @fair-thechoicelab.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

💬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

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FAIR - The Choice Lab @fair-thechoicelab.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

✨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/

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FAIR - CELE @fair-cele.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

🎤 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

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FAIR - CELE @fair-cele.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

🔎 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...

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FAIR - The Choice Lab @fair-thechoicelab.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

🎙️ 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...

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FAIR - The Choice Lab @fair-thechoicelab.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

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.

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FAIR - The Choice Lab @fair-thechoicelab.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

📄 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/...

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FAIR - CELE @fair-cele.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

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...

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FAIR - CELE @fair-cele.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

📄 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=...

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FAIR - CELE @fair-cele.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

✨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!

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FAIR - CELE @fair-cele.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

🎉 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...

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FAIR - The Choice Lab @fair-thechoicelab.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

🔎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...

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Uvanlig syn får uvanlig stor plass

Sissener frykter ikke ulikhet, men det gjør nordmenn flest.

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FAIR - The Choice Lab @fair-thechoicelab.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

🎧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...

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FAIR - CELE @fair-cele.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

👩‍🎓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-...

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FAIR - The Choice Lab @fair-thechoicelab.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

💬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...

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Ranveig Falch @ranveigfalch.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

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...

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Why society offers less sympathy when men fall behind

Society shows less sympathy when men fall behind. New research reveals people blame struggling men more and support fewer policies to help them.

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FAIR - CELE @fair-cele.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

#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...

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FAIR - The Choice Lab @fair-thechoicelab.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

❓ 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-...

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FAIR - CELE @fair-cele.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

🎉 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...

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FAIR - CELE @fair-cele.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

#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...

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FAIR - The Choice Lab @fair-thechoicelab.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

#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...

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FAIR - The Choice Lab @fair-thechoicelab.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

🥳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”.

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FAIR - The Choice Lab @fair-thechoicelab.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

#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...

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FAIR - The Choice Lab @fair-thechoicelab.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

💬 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...

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Menn åpner seg, men for en chatbot

Les kronikken.

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FAIR - The Choice Lab @fair-thechoicelab.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

🌍 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

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FAIR - The Choice Lab @fair-thechoicelab.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

💭 How did the Second World War reshape Norway’s incomes? Today, Kjell G. Salvanes is a keynote speaker at GPEF 2025, presenting a study exploring how wartime shocks and major investments reshaped incomes across Norway. 🔗 Read more here: www.unisg.ch/en/research/...

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FAIR - The Choice Lab @fair-thechoicelab.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

⏰ Application deadline approaching! Apply for Spring School 2026 by 15 November and spend a week learning from top researchers in San Diego. 🔗 www.nhh.no/en/calendar/...

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Spring School 2026

Join us as we celebrate a milestone - the 10th Spring School in Behavioral Economics at RADY School of Management, UC San Diego.

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FAIR - The Choice Lab @fair-thechoicelab.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Twenty years after helping shape the Oil Fund’s first ethical guidelines, NHH Professor and FAIR Deputy Director Alexander W. Cappelen joins a new national ethics committee. What role will he play in shaping Norway’s ethical decisions? 👉Read more here: www.nhh.no/nhh-bulletin...

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FAIR - CELE @fair-cele.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

🎓 FAIR NHH is hiring TWO postdocs in Labour Economics! Want to explore how fairness, mobility, and care shape our societies? Join our international team and build your own research journey! 📅 Apply by 30 November 2025 📍 Bergen, Norway 🔗 Apply now: www.nhh.no/en/research-...

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FAIR - CELE @fair-cele.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

🏆Who Gains and Who Misses Out in Merit-Based School Admissions? In their article, Antonio Dalla-Zuanna, Kai Liu, and Kjell G. Salvanes explore how merit-based admissions can unintentionally deepen educational inequalities. 👉Read more here: www.nhh.no/en/research-...

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FAIR - The Choice Lab @fair-thechoicelab.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

🎉 Congratulations to Bertil Tungodden, FAIR Director, on being elected to the Board of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters! The appointment reflects both his scientific achievements and FAIR’s strong position as a research centre of excellence. 🔗 Read more at www.nhh.no/en/research-...

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