📄 New Journal of Political Economy publication! Alexander W. Cappelen, Mathias Ekström and Bertil Tungodden, with Gary Charness and Uri Gneezy, have a paper out in the January 2026 issue of the JPE: “Exercise Improves Academic Performance. 🔗Read the paper: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

The 2026 Symposium on Economic Experiments in Developing Countries (SEEDEC) takes place June 11–12 at @durham.ac.uk , hosted by EMBR . Keynotes: Anandi Mani & Pedro Carneiro. Submit by Feb 28 👉 forms.gle/SZuSdyUaYdbj... Read more about the symposium: www.durham.ac.uk/business/new...

📄 New American Economic Review publication! Kjell G. Salvanes, with Philipp Ager and Marc Goñi, has a paper out in the latest issue of the AER: “Gender-Biased Technological Change: Milking Machines and the Exodus of Women from Farming.” Read the paper here: www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

✨Happy Holidays from FAIR✨ Thank you to our researchers, collaborators, and followers for a year of insightful research and engaging discussions. We look forward to the year ahead!

Congratulations to Bertil Tungodden!🎉 We’re thrilled to announce that Bertil Tungodden has been appointed a Fellow of the Royal Economic Society (RES) — a prestigious recognition in the field of economics! See the full list of new Fellows here: res.org.uk/the-royal-ec...

🎉 Congratulations to our researchers! FAIR researchers Katrine Vellesen Løken, Alexander L.P. Willén, and Aline Bütikofer have been awarded prestigious funding from the Research Council of Norway to conduct groundbreaking research. 🔗Read more: www.forskningsradet.no/nyheter/2025...

🔎Check out Morten Nyborg Støstad’s opinion piece in E24. In response to a recent interview with Jan Petter Sissener, the article challenges claims that downplay the social effects of rising economic differences, highlighting that most Norwegians see inequality as harmful. 🔗 e24.no/norsk-oekono...

🎧Today, Catalina Franco joins the student radio show Bærtur! She discusses her research on gender, education and artificial intelligence. Listen live on FM 107.8 at 10:00, or catch the podcast version here: open.spotify.com/episode/4x6e...

👩‍🎓How do school peers influence who gets into elite education? In “First-Generation Elite: The Role of School Social Networks”, Sarah Cattan, Kjell G. Salvanes, and Emma Tominey shows how school networks matters greatly for who enters elite university programmes. 🔗 www.nhh.no/en/research-...

💬Parental Leave, Prison, and Brain Drain Check out Scientific Sense latest episode with Professor Katrine Vellesen Løken! 🎧Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...

Excited to see our research featured by AIBM today, showing that people are less willing to help men when they fall behind — and that effort beliefs drive this pattern. @fair-thechoicelab.bsky.social @aibm.bsky.social aibm.org/research/why...

#EconJobMarket ✨Meet Pallavi Prabhakar, JM-candidate at the Department of Economics at NHH Bergen. 🕵️‍♀️Fields of interest: Development Economics 📘JMP: Bottom Up Accountability? Information, Expectations and Civic Action in India 🔗Read more about the JM-candidates here: www.nhh.no/en/departmen...

❓ What do people’s own words reveal about their economic decisions? A new JEL article by Ingar Haaland, Christopher Roth, Stefanie Stantcheva and Johannes Wohlfart shows how open-ended survey responses offer insights that standard surveys often miss. 🔎Read more here: www.nhh.no/en/research-...

🎉 We’re proud to share that Ingar Haaland has been appointed Associate Editor at the Journal of the European Economic Association (JEEA). A major milestone and a testament to his contributions to economic research! Read more about Ingar’s research here: sites.google.com/site/ingarha...

#EconJobMarket ✨Meet Erika Povea, JM-candidate at the Department of Economics at NHH Bergen. 🕵️‍♀️Fields of interest: Labour Economics, Economics of Education and Applied Microeconomics 📘JMP: When Organized Crime Moves In: Economic and Human Capital Disruption 🔗Read more: www.nhh.no/en/departmen...

#EconJobMarket ✨Meet Marlis M. Schneider, JM-candidate at the Department of Economics at NHH Bergen. 🕵️‍♀️Fields of interest: Behavioural economics, Economics of Education, Applied Microeconomics 📘JMP: Biased Parental Beliefs: Experimental Evidence from Norway 🔗Read more: www.nhh.no/.../economic...

🥳Congratulations! Yesterday, Pallavi Prabhakar won The Norwegian Association for Economists' prize for best paper by a PhD at the annual meeting for her job market paper titled: “Bottom up accountability? Information, Expectations and Civic Action in India”.

#EconJobMarket ✨Meet Adrien Dautheville, JM-candidate at the Department of Economics at NHH Bergen. 🕵️‍♀️Fields of interest: Development Economics, Behavioural Economics, Economics of Education 📘JMP: Job Seeking Entrepreneurs 🔗Read more about the JM-candidates here: www.nhh.no/.../economic...

💬 Men are opening up — but to chatbots In a new Aftenposten article, FAIR researchers Catalina Franco, Roberto Caputo, and Ezgi Oral explore why men may turn to AI when talking about mental health. 🔗 Read the article: www.aftenposten.no/meninger/kro...

🌍 Today, FAIR NHH’s Professor and Scientific Director, Bertil Tungodden, joined the ERC Insights event in Bergen, offering insights from his work as an Ambassador for the network. Read more: 🔗 About the event: www.uib.no/forskning/17... 🔗 About Association of ERC Grantees: aerg.eu

💭 How did the Second World War reshape Norway’s incomes? Today, Kjell G. Salvanes is a keynote speaker at GPEF 2025, presenting a study exploring how wartime shocks and major investments reshaped incomes across Norway. 🔗 Read more here: www.unisg.ch/en/research/...

Twenty years after helping shape the Oil Fund’s first ethical guidelines, NHH Professor and FAIR Deputy Director Alexander W. Cappelen joins a new national ethics committee. What role will he play in shaping Norway’s ethical decisions? 👉Read more here: www.nhh.no/nhh-bulletin...

🎓 FAIR NHH is hiring TWO postdocs in Labour Economics! Want to explore how fairness, mobility, and care shape our societies? Join our international team and build your own research journey! 📅 Apply by 30 November 2025 📍 Bergen, Norway 🔗 Apply now: www.nhh.no/en/research-...

🏆Who Gains and Who Misses Out in Merit-Based School Admissions? In their article, Antonio Dalla-Zuanna, Kai Liu, and Kjell G. Salvanes explore how merit-based admissions can unintentionally deepen educational inequalities. 👉Read more here: www.nhh.no/en/research-...

🎉 Congratulations to Bertil Tungodden, FAIR Director, on being elected to the Board of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters! The appointment reflects both his scientific achievements and FAIR’s strong position as a research centre of excellence. 🔗 Read more at www.nhh.no/en/research-...

📢 Call for Papers! Join the 47th Annual Meeting of the Norwegian Association of Economists, hosted by NHH and Samfunnsøkonomene from 24 - 25 Nov. 📝 Submit your paper by 13 Oct: samfunnsokonomene.no/kurs-og-konf...

Exciting news from FAIR 🎉 Professors Erik Ø. Sørensen just received a $23K Peder Sather Grant to study how we can make economics research more transparent, reproducible, and reliable. Better science helps us all 👏 🔗 www.nhh.no/en/research-...

📣 Apply for Spring School 2026! Spend a week in San Diego, learning from leading researchers in behavioral economics and connecting with peers from across the globe. Here’s a glimpse of past Spring Schools — from beach walks to research talks 🌊☀️ www.nhh.no/en/calendar/...

Forthcoming in the AER: "First Generation Elite: The Role of School Social Networks" by Sarah Cattan, Kjell G. Salvanes, and Emma Tominey. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

🎓 PhD Opportunities at NHH! Join our Department of Economics and kickstart your research career. 📅 Apply by 15 September 📍 Bergen, Norway Work with leading researchers, access world-class resources, and prepare for a global career in academia. 🔗 Apply now: www.nhh.no/en/research-...

📚 Prosperity with equality: how do the Nordic countries do it? A new paper in the Journal of Economic Literature by Salvanes, Mogstad & Torsvik points to four pillars of the Nordic model and shows how wage compression plays a key role!    🔗 n9.cl/716g8

We are looking forward to Weijia Wang's PhD defense on Fairness and Decision Making. Wishing Weijia the best of luck tomorrow! www.nhh.no/en/calendar/...

"Natural resources, demand for skills, and schooling choices" - new publication by Aline Bütikofer & Kjell G. Salvanes (both @nhhecon.bsky.social, @nhhnor.bsky.social & @fair-cele.bsky.social), and Antonio Dalla-Zuanna in @jeem-econ.bsky.social: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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📉 More parental sick leave → lower school performance in kids. New study shows family policies shape future generations. 🔗 www.nhh.no/en/research-... @nhhnor.bsky.social @nhhecon.bsky.social

🎉Aline Bütikofer has received NordForsk funding for a new project on elder care in the Nordics. She'll explore how care is delivered and shared — and how to make systems more sustainable as our population ages. 🔗 www.nhh.no/en/research-... @nhhnor.bsky.social @nhhecon.bsky.social

"Returns to Education with Earnings Uncertainty and Employment Risk over the Life Cycle" - new working paper by Kjell G. Salvanes ( @nhhecon.bsky.social, @nhhnor.bsky.social & @fair-cele.bsky.social) Kai Liu and Magne Mogstad: openaccess.nhh.no/nhh-xmlui/ha...

💥 Norway’s oil boom reshaped education. Initial dropout spike, then rise in vocational training. Local job opportunities drove the shift. 🔗https://www.nhh.no/en/research-centres/fair/news/2025/jeem-natural-resources-demand-for-skills-and-schooling-choices/ @nhhnor.bsky.social @nhhecon.bsky.social

"Parenthood and the gender gap in commuting" - new publication by Aline Bütikofer and Alexander Willén (both @nhhecon.bsky.social, @nhhnor.bsky.social & @fair-cele.bsky.social) and @renekara.bsky.social in @jpube.bsky.social: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

We hosted the SEEDEC symposium together with @fair-cele.bsky.social, organized by @vincentsomville.bsky.social. We enjoyed keynotes from @ggenicot.bsky.social and David McKenzie, lively discussions and great presentations. Thank you all who participated!

🚨 New paper accepted in the American Economic Review! Milking machines replaced women’s farm work—pushing young rural women into cities, education, and higher-paying jobs. A striking case of gender-biased tech reshaping lives. 🔗 www.nhh.no/en/research-... @nhhnor.bsky.social @nhhecon.bsky.social

📣 We're hiring! FAIR is looking for a student assistant to help with logistics and events this autumn 📅 🕒 Part-time | 📍 FAIR, 📬 Apply by 30 June Read more & apply 👉 www.nhh.no/en/research-...

🚨We are hiring a Research Data Manager! 📊 Work with global researchers, run fieldwork, build data systems. 📍 Bergen | ⏳ Deadline: June 1 🔗https://www.nhh.no/en/research-centres/fair/news/2025/were-hiring-research-data-manager/

New on @nber.org: The real reason for Nordic equality? 📉 It’s not just taxes—wage compression does the heavy lifting. 🔗https://www.nhh.no/en/research-centres/fair/news/2025/the-digest-wage-compression-not-redistribution-explains-nordic-equality/

🧑‍⚕️ New research from FAIR, NHH and Lund University reveals that Swedish GPs moving to Norway in the 2000s led to higher mortality in Sweden — a striking example of how cross-border labor mobility can impact public health. @nhhnor.bsky.social @nhhecon.bsky.social 🔗 www.nhh.no/en/research-...

NEPR 2025 is out! 📈 Focus: wage formation + the Nordic model. Alexander L. P. Willén contributed to the unions chapter. 👉https://www.nhh.no/en/research-centres/fair/news/2025/alexander-l.p-willen-nordic-cooperation/ @nhhnor.bsky.social @nhhecon.bsky.social

Imagine you could lie for $100 — and no one would ever know Would you do it? A new study reveals how a single promise can tilt the scales toward honesty. www.nhh.no/en/nhh-bulle...

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