Research

Research

The Centre for Experimental Research on Fairness, Inequality and Rationality aims to conduct groundbreaking experimental research on how to address inequality in society. FAIR is comprised of three research groups, the Centre for Empirical Labor Economics (CELE), The Choice Lab (TCL), and Development (DEV).

CELE

Centre for Empirical Labor Economics aims to foster research on the multiple aspects of empirical labour economics. The research agenda includes several themed areas of focus: the labour market, education and health economics, in particular early investments and intergenerational mobility.

TCL

The Choice Lab uses economic experiments to study individual decision-making, particularly how people are motivated by moral, risk and institutional considerations. Areas of focus are global income inequality, tax policy, health care and management issues relevant to corporations and non-governmental organisations.

Dev

Development combines field experiments, smaller-scale controlled economic experiments, survey experiments and household surveys to better understand people's choices in low-income countries and provide research-based advice on how their lives can be improved. Our projects involve early childhood development, education, and entrepreneurship, with a focus on countries in East Africa.

Selected publications

Authors Title Publication
Eva M. Berger, Ernst Fehr, Henning Hermes, Daniel Schunk and Kristen Winkel

The Impact of Working-Memory Training on Children’s Cognitive and Noncognitive Skills

Published in The Journal of Political Economy, Volume 133 (2), February 2025

Daron Acemoglu, Tuomas Pekkarinen, Kjell G. Salvanes, Matti Sarvimäki

The Making of Social Democracy: the Economic and Electoral Consequences of Norway’s 1936 Folk School Reform

Published in the Journal of the European Economic Association, 24 June 2024

Sandra E. Black, Paul J. Devereux, Fanny Landaud, Kjell G. Salvanes

The (Un)Importance of Inheritance

Published in Journal of the European Economic Association, 23 December 2024

Aline Bütikofer, Antonio Dalla-Zuanna, Kjell G. Salvanes

Breaking the Links: Natural Resource Booms and Intergenerational Mobility 

Published in The Review of Economics and Statistics, 18 December 2024

Samuel D. Hirshman and Alexander L.P. Willén

Does Increasing the Riskiness of Choices Widen Gender Gaps?

Published in Management Science, 22 November 2024

Henning Hermes, Philipp Lergetporer, Frauke Peter, Simon Wiederhold

Application Barriers and the Socioeconomic Gap in Child Care Enrollment

Published in the Journal of European Economic Association, 20 November 2024

Alexander W. Cappelen, Stefan Meissner, and Bertil Tungodden

Cancel the Deal? An Experimental Study on the Exploitation of Irrational Consumers

Published in Management Science, 28 August 2024

Eugen Dimant, Michele Gelfand, Anna Hochleitner and Silvia Sonderegger

Strategic Behavior with Tight, Loose, and Polarized Norms

Published in Management Science, 30 May 2024

Building Bridges and Widening Gaps

Published in The Review of Economics and Statistics, Volume 106 (3): 681 - 697 

anny Landaud, Éric Maurin, Alexander L.P. Willén, Barton Willage

The Value of a High School GPA

Published in The Review of Economics and Statistics, 09 February 2024

Women in Economics network

The Women in Economics Network (WomEN) is a platform for interactions among female economists with the aim to and promote gender balance in academic leadership positions. Together with FAIR, WEN partners with other universities and institutions to organize international networking and mentoring events for women. Some of the events are annual workshops for applied economists, a biannual networking lunch for all female faculty members at NHH, small-group annual presentation training courses for female faculty and female job market candidates.

WOMEN IN ECONOMICS NETWORK