FAIR-The Choice Lab is part of a Centre of Excellence at NHH Norwegian School of Economics working to better understand economic and moral choices.https://bsky.app/profile/fair-thechoicelab.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/fair-thechoicelab.bsky.social/post/3ml3sacesn224📣New publication in the Journal of Political Economy! Bertil Tungodden, Erik Ø. Sørensen, and Alexander W. Cappelen, together with William R. Zame and Shachar Kariv, have published “Linking Social and Personal Preferences: Theory and Experiment.” 🔎Read more: doi.org/10.1086/73983205 May 2026 08:44 +0000at://did:plc:3yfl2lo5jsruz4xsby6qtc3d/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml3sacesn224https://bsky.app/profile/fair-thechoicelab.bsky.social/post/3mkk5rjglhc2p🔎New article in VoxDev! Daniela Horta Sáenz, together with Anderson Tami-Patiño, examine how coca eradication policies affect development in Colombia. 🔗Read the article: https://voxdev.org/topic/institutions-political-economy/how-coca-eradication-undermined-development-colombia28 Apr 2026 08:22 +0000at://did:plc:3yfl2lo5jsruz4xsby6qtc3d/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkk5rjglhc2phttps://bsky.app/profile/fair-thechoicelab.bsky.social/post/3mkafa2u63s2m📣New publication! Lars Ivar Oppedal Berge, Kjetil Bjorvatn, Vincent Somville, and Bertil Tungodden, with co-authors, have published a new paper in The Economic Journal: “On the doorstep of adulthood: Entrepreneurship and fertility of young women in Tanzania” 🔗Read more: https://doi.org/10.1093/ej/ueag05124 Apr 2026 11:09 +0000at://did:plc:3yfl2lo5jsruz4xsby6qtc3d/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkafa2u63s2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/fair-thechoicelab.bsky.social/post/3mj27rzgges2lCongratulations! We are pleased to announce that Alexander W. Cappelen and Bertil Tungodden have been appointed Associate Editors of the Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics, a leading journal in the field of economics.09 Apr 2026 06:50 +0000at://did:plc:3yfl2lo5jsruz4xsby6qtc3d/app.bsky.feed.post/3mj27rzgges2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/fair-thechoicelab.bsky.social/post/3mhirq6cwmc2q📣 FAIR is hiring a Postdoctoral Researcher in Labour/Public/Health Economics! Join an international research environment at NHH and work on sustainable care systems, including elder care in the Nordic countries. 📅 Deadline: 10 April 2026 🔗 Read more: https://www.nhh.no/en/research-centres/fair/news/2026/hiring-postdoctoral-positions-in-labourpublichealth-economics/20 Mar 2026 14:58 +0000at://did:plc:3yfl2lo5jsruz4xsby6qtc3d/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhirq6cwmc2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/fair-thechoicelab.bsky.social/post/3mftoe53urc26Curious about what we have been working on over the past year? The FAIR Annual Report 2025 is now available!✨ 🔗Read the report here: https://www.nhh.no/en/research-centres/fair/news/2026/annual-report-2025/27 Feb 2026 12:07 +0000at://did:plc:3yfl2lo5jsruz4xsby6qtc3d/app.bsky.feed.post/3mftoe53urc26https://bsky.app/profile/fair-thechoicelab.bsky.social/post/3mfjkoth35k2t📄 Kjetil Bjorvatn, Selim Gulesci, Arne Nasgowitz and Vincent Somville, with Denise Ferris and Lore Vandewalle, have published a new paper in the Journal of Development Studies: “Cash Transfers and Business Survival During Covid: Evidence from Uganda.” 🔗 Read the paper here: https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2025.260158423 Feb 2026 11:35 +0000at://did:plc:3yfl2lo5jsruz4xsby6qtc3d/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfjkoth35k2thttps://bsky.app/profile/fair-thechoicelab.bsky.social/post/3me6gtd25b22v💬Today, Alexander W. Cappelen is a keynote speaker at the University of Bologna, presenting The Origins of Gender Differences in Competitiveness. 🔗https://dse.unibo.it/en/agenda-events/event/experimental-approaches-to-gender-inequality-stereotypes-norms-and-women-s-achievements-in-the-labour-market06 Feb 2026 08:01 +0000at://did:plc:3yfl2lo5jsruz4xsby6qtc3d/app.bsky.feed.post/3me6gtd25b22vhttps://bsky.app/profile/fair-thechoicelab.bsky.social/post/3md3tnrdzek23✨Congratulations to Adrien Dautheville for defending his PhD thesis titled "Essays on Overconfidence and Development Economics"! 🎉 🔗https://www.nhh.no/en/research-centres/fair/news/2025/phd-defense/23 Jan 2026 13:47 +0000at://did:plc:3yfl2lo5jsruz4xsby6qtc3d/app.bsky.feed.post/3md3tnrdzek23https://bsky.app/profile/fair-thechoicelab.bsky.social/post/3mchgfgaprc2u🎙️ This week, Alexander W. Cappelen joined the student radio show Bærtur! The conversation dives into the ethics of Norway’s Oil Fund, the importance of research groups like FAIR, and different ways of understanding fairness. 🔗Listen: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1rlxHMATgffrnsoenK3lfi15 Jan 2026 10:57 +0000at://did:plc:3yfl2lo5jsruz4xsby6qtc3d/app.bsky.feed.post/3mchgfgaprc2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/fair-thechoicelab.bsky.social/post/3mchaxexeos2uEUDN Scientific Conference 2026! FAIR and NHH Norwegian School of Economics will host the EUDN Scientific Conference in Bergen on May 6–7, 2026. The program will consist of about 12 papers presented over two days, covering a broad range of topics in development economics.15 Jan 2026 09:20 +0000at://did:plc:3yfl2lo5jsruz4xsby6qtc3d/app.bsky.feed.post/3mchaxexeos2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/fair-thechoicelab.bsky.social/post/3mccitajwcc2x📄 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: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/73825113 Jan 2026 11:57 +0000at://did:plc:3yfl2lo5jsruz4xsby6qtc3d/app.bsky.feed.post/3mccitajwcc2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/fair-thechoicelab.bsky.social/post/3m7s53r64h22q🔎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. 🔗 https://e24.no/norsk-oekonomi/i/5pVMdz/uvanlig-syn-faar-uvanlig-stor-plass12 Dec 2025 12:54 +0000at://did:plc:3yfl2lo5jsruz4xsby6qtc3d/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7s53r64h22qhttps://bsky.app/profile/fair-thechoicelab.bsky.social/post/3m7mpd24vkc2a🎧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: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4x6eHgm9xdCxDHfpnZbeB210 Dec 2025 09:04 +0000at://did:plc:3yfl2lo5jsruz4xsby6qtc3d/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7mpd24vkc2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/fair-thechoicelab.bsky.social/post/3m7hv76zyjk2u💬Parental Leave, Prison, and Brain Drain Check out Scientific Sense latest episode with Professor Katrine Vellesen Løken! 🎧Listen here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/prof-katrine-l%C3%B8ken-of-the-norwegian-school-of/id1515026470?i=100073984652208 Dec 2025 11:06 +0000at://did:plc:3yfl2lo5jsruz4xsby6qtc3d/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7hv76zyjk2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/fair-thechoicelab.bsky.social/post/3m75kv55rys2l❓ 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: https://www.nhh.no/en/research-centres/fair/news/2025/what-open-ended-answers-can-reveal-about-economic-behaviour/04 Dec 2025 08:35 +0000at://did:plc:3yfl2lo5jsruz4xsby6qtc3d/app.bsky.feed.post/3m75kv55rys2l