On Monday, 31 March 2025 Daniel V. A. Duque held a trial lecture on a prescribed topic and defended his thesis for the PhD degree at NHH. Thesis: «Essays on Economics of Education».

A paper by Aline Bütikofer, Antonio Dalla-Zuanna and Kjell G. Salvanes shows that Norway’s oil boom increased economic mobility for men—but left women behind. The effects of this resource shock reshaped income dynamics across three generations.

FAIR is organising the Bergen Labor Workshop 2025, taking place on 13 - 14 May at NHH. The workshop brings together a select group of leading applied economists in labor economics. The program will conclude with the Sandmo Lecture by David Card, hosted by the Department of Economics.

After a decade of collaboration and research, a new working paper has been published that seeks to better understand how people across the world think about inequality. Based on experimental data from more than 65,000 individuals in 60 countries, the study offers rare global insight into how fairness, beliefs, and policy preferences are connected.