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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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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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Good skills in bad times: Cyclical skill mismatch and the long-term effects of graduating in a recession by Liu, Kai, Salvanes, Kjell G., Sørensen, Erik Ø.

“…We show that cyclical skill mismatch, defined as mismatch between the skills supplied by college graduates and skills demanded by hiring industries, is an…”
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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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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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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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Fairness in Bankruptcies: An Experimental Study by Cappelen, Alexander W, Luttens, Roland Iwan, Sorensen, Erik O, Tungodden, Bertil

“…The pari passu principle of awarding claimants proportionally to their pre-insolvency claims is the most prominent principle in the law of insolvency. We…”
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Leadership and Incentives by Cappelen, Alexander W., Reme, Bjørn-Atle, Sørensen, Erik Ø., Tungodden, Bertil

“…We study how leader compensation affects public goods provision. We report from a lab experiment with four treatments, where the base treatment was a standard…”
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Measuring unfair (in)equality by Almås, Ingvild, Cappelen, Alexander W., Lind, Jo Thori, Sørensen, Erik Ø., Tungodden, Bertil

“…This paper shows one way of generalizing the standard framework of inequality measurement to allow for a distinction between fair and unfair inequalities. We…”
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Fairness and family background by Almås, Ingvild, Cappelen, Alexander W, Salvanes, Kjell G, Sørensen, Erik Ø, Tungodden, Bertil

“…Fairness preferences fundamentally affect individual behavior and play an important role in shaping social and political institutions. However, people differ…”
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An experimental study of prosocial motivation among criminals by Birkeland, Sigbjørn, Cappelen, Alexander W., Sørensen, Erik Ø., Tungodden, Bertil

“…The fact that criminal behavior typically has negative consequences for others provides a compelling reason to think that criminals lack prosocial motivation…”
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Just Luck: An Experimental Study of Risk-Taking and Fairness: Erratum by Cappelen, Alexander W., Konow, James, Sørensen, Erik Ø., Tungodden, Bertil

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Do Non-Enforceable Contracts Matter? Evidence from an International Lab Experiment by Cappelen, Alexander W., Hagen, Rune Jansen, Sørensen, Erik Ø., Tungodden, Bertil

“…Many verifiable contracts are impossible or difficult to enforce. This applies to contracts among family and friends, contracts regulating market transactions,…”
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The importance of moral reflection and self-reported data in a dictator game with production by Cappelen, Alexander W., Hole, Astri Drange, Sørensen, Erik Ø., Tungodden, Bertil

“…This article studies how individual behavior is affected by moral reflection in a dictator game with production. We make individuals reflect on fairness, in a…”
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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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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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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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