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You’ve Got Mail: A Randomized Field Experiment on Tax Evasion by Bott, Kristina M., Cappelen, Alexander W., Sørensen, Erik Ø., Tungodden, Bertil

“…We report from a large-scale randomized field experiment conducted on a unique sample of more than 15,000 taxpayers in Norway who were likely to have…”
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Fairness and the Development of Inequality Acceptance by Almås, Ingvild, Cappelen, Alexander W, Sørensen, Erik Ø, Tungodden, Bertil

“…Fairness considerations fundamentally affect human behavior, but our understanding of the nature and development of people's fairness preferences is limited…”
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The Pluralism of Fairness Ideals: An Experimental Approach by Cappelen, Alexander W., Hole, Astri Drange, Sørensen, Erik Ø., Tungodden, Bertil

“…A core question in the contemporary debate on distributive justice is how to understand fairness in situations involving production. Important theories of…”
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Social Preferences in the Lab: A Comparison of Students and a Representative Population by Cappelen, Alexander W., Nygaard, Knut, Sørensen, Erik Ø., Tungodden, Bertil

“…We report from a lab experiment conducted with a sample of participants that is nationally representative for the adult population in Norway and two student…”
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Responsibility for what? Fairness and individual responsibility by Cappelen, Alexander W., Sørensen, Erik Ø., Tungodden, Bertil

“…What should individuals be held responsible for? This is a fundamental question in much of the contemporary debate on distributive justice. Different fairness…”
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Equity theory and fair inequality: A neuroeconomic study by Cappelen, Alexander W., Eichele, Tom, Hugdahl, Kenneth, Specht, Karsten, Sørensen, Erik Ø., Tungodden, Bertil

“…The present paper reports results from, to our knowledge, the first study designed to examine the neuronal responses to income inequality in situations in…”
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Just Luck: An Experimental Study of Risk-Taking and Fairness by Cappelen, Alexander W., Konow, James, Sørensen, Erik Ø., Tungodden, Bertil

“…Choices involving risk significantly affect the distribution of income and wealth in society. This paper reports the results of the first experiment, to our…”
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Fairness and limited information: Are people Bayesian meritocrats? by Cappelen, Alexander W., de Haan, Thomas, Tungodden, Bertil

“…This paper studies how limited information about the source of inequality affects inequality acceptance. We show theoretically that non-Bayesian belief…”
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A Meritocratic Origin of Egalitarian Behaviour by Cappelen, Alexander W, Mollerstrom, Johanna, Reme, Bjørn-Atle, Tungodden, Bertil

“…Abstract We report from a study of how uncertainty about whether a given inequality reflects performance or luck shapes distributive behaviour. We show…”
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Solidarity and fairness in times of crisis by Cappelen, Alexander W., Falch, Ranveig, Sørensen, Erik Ø., Tungodden, Bertil

“…•Experiment with more than 8000 Americans on how the pandemic changes moral views.•Identifies causal mechanism by making the pandemic salient for treated…”
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Willingness to Compete: Family Matters by Almås, Ingvild, Cappelen, Alexander W., Salvanes, Kjell G., Sørensen, Erik Ø., Tungodden, Bertil

“…This paper studies the role of family background in explaining differences in the willingness to compete in a cognitive task. By combining data from a lab…”
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Teaching Through Television: Experimental Evidence on Entrepreneurship Education in Tanzania by Bjorvatn, Kjetil, Cappelen, Alexander W., Sekei, Linda Helgesson, Sørensen, Erik Ø., Tungodden, Bertil

“…Can television be used to teach and foster entrepreneurship among youth in developing countries? We report from a randomized control field experiment of an…”
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Global evidence on the selfish rich inequality hypothesis by Almås, Ingvild, Cappelen, Alexander W, Sørensen, Erik Ø, Tungodden, Bertil

“…We report on a study of whether people believe that the rich are richer than the poor because they have been more selfish in life, using data from more than…”
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The Merit Primacy Effect by Cappelen, Alexander W, Moene, Karl Ove, Skjelbred, Siv-Elisabeth, Tungodden, Bertil

“…Abstract A long history in economics going back to Adam Smith has argued that people give primacy to merit—rather than luck—in distributive choices. We provide…”
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FACE-SAVING OR FAIR-MINDED: WHAT MOTIVATES MORAL BEHAVIOR? by Cappelen, Alexander W., Halvorsen, Trond, Sørensen, Erik Ø., Tungodden, Bertil

“…We study the relative importance of intrinsic moral motivation and extrinsic social motivation in explaining moral behavior. The key feature of our experiment…”
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What Explains the Gender Gap in College Track Dropout? Experimental and Administrative Evidence by Almås, Ingvild, Cappelen, Alexander W., Salvanes, Kjell G., Sørensen, Erik Ø., Tungodden, Bertil

“…We exploit a unique data set, combining rich experimental data with high-quality administrative data, to study dropout from the college track in Norway, and…”
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When do we lie? by Cappelen, Alexander W., Sørensen, Erik Ø., Tungodden, Bertil

“…•Aversion to lying appears to be of major importance in a personal context.•Aversion to lying appears to be of minor importance in a market context.•Aversion…”
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The development gap in economic rationality of future elites by Cappelen, Alexander W., Kariv, Shachar, Sørensen, Erik Ø., Tungodden, Bertil

“…We test the touchstones of economic rationality—utility maximization, stochastic dominance, and expected-utility maximization—of elite students in the U.S. and…”
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Understanding the resource curse: A large-scale experiment on corruption in Tanzania by Cappelen, Alexander W., Fjeldstad, Odd-Helge, Mmari, Donald, Sjursen, Ingrid Hoem, Tungodden, Bertil

“…Corruption is considered an important driver of the resource curse in developing countries. Based on a large-scale field experiment in Tanzania, this paper…”
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Fairness is intuitive by Cappelen, Alexander W., Nielsen, Ulrik H., Tungodden, Bertil, Tyran, Jean-Robert, Wengström, Erik

“…In this paper we provide new evidence showing that fair behavior is intuitive to most people. We find a strong association between a short response time and…”
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