FAIR paper published in American Economic Review
A new NHH study, "Second-Best Fairness: The Trade-off between False Positives and False Negatives", is published in the September issue of American Economic Review.
Professor Alexander Wright Cappelen
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BIOGRAPHY
Alexander W. Cappelen is a professor at the Department of Economics, Norwegian School of Economics (NHH), where his academic positions include Deputy Director of the Centre of Excellence FAIR (Centre for Experimental Research on Fairness, Inequality and Rationality), co-director of the research group The Choice Lab, and Chairman of Centre for Ethics and Economics.
His research interests are behavioral, experimental and public economics, business ethics, social choice theory, political philosophy and distributive justice. Cappelen has published extensively in leading international journals.
Cappelen finished his doctoral dissertation on “Redistribution in a Divided World” at NHH in 2000, and has been Professor since 2006.
Selected publications
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Two NHH researchers to contribute to an EU programme
Alexander W. Cappelen and Aksel Mjøs are among the members of the reference groups for the EU's new research and innovation programme Horizon Europe.
Solidarity and predictability are essential in times of crisis
New guarantees are needed to enable us to carry the financial costs of the pandemic together, write Bertil Tungodden and Alexander W Cappelen.
Competitiveness, gender and handedness: a large-sample intercultural study
New working paper by Thomas Buser (University of Amsterdam), Alexander Cappelen, Uri Gneezy (Rady School of Management, UCSD), Moshe Hoffman (MIT and Harvard) and Bertil Tungodden, titled "Competitiveness, gender and handedness: a large-sample intercultural study".
New FAIR Projects funded by the Research Council of Norway
FAIR is involved in three projects that have received funding from the Research Council of Norway.
The Development of Social Comparisons and Sharing Behavior Across 12 Countries
New accepted paper in the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, titled "The Development of Social Comparisons and Sharing Behavior Across 12 Countries". Alexander W. Cappelen and Bertil Tungodden are among the co-authors.
A Meritocratic Origin of Egalitarian Behavior
New working paper by Alexander W. Cappelen, Johanna Mollerstrom, Bjørn-Atle Reme and Bertil Tungodden, titled "A Meritocratic Origin of Egalitarian Behavior".
The Effect of Early Childhood Education on Social Preferences
A new accepted paper by Alexander Cappelen, John List, Anya Samek and Bertil Tungodden in the Journal of Political Economy, titled "The Effect of Early Childhood Education on Social Preferences"
You’ve got mail: A randomised field experiment on tax evasion
New accepted paper in Management Science by Kristina M. Bott, Alexander W. Cappelen, Erik Ø. Sørensen and Bertil Tungodden titled "You’ve got mail: A randomised field experiment on tax evasion".
The Boy Crisis: Experimental Evidence on the Acceptance of Males Falling Behind
New working paper by Alexander W. Cappelen, Ranveig Falch and Bertil Tungodden, titled "The Boy Crisis: Experimental Evidence on the Acceptance of Males Falling Behind"
Cutthroat capitalism versus cuddly socialism: Are Americans more meritocratic and efficiency-seeking than Scandinavians?
New forthcoming paper in The Journal of Political Economy by Ingvild Almås, Alexander W. Cappelen and Bertil Tungodden titled "Cutthroat capitalism versus cuddly socialism: Are Americans more meritocratic and efficiency-seeking than Scandinavians?"
Teaching through television: Experimental evidence on entrepreneurship education in Tanzania
New accepted paper in the journal Management Science, by Kjetil Bjorvatn, Alexander W. Cappelen, Linda Helgesson Sekei, Erik Ø. Sørensen and Bertil Tungodden.