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✨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/
January 23, 2026 at 1:48 PM
🎤 Today, Kjell G. Salvanes (FAIR) is a keynote speaker at LESE 2026 at Nova SBE in Lisbon, presenting The Decline in Routine Tasks, Educational Investments, and Intergenerational Mobility.
🔗 2026.lese-conference.org
January 23, 2026 at 7:38 AM
🔎 Kjell G. Salvanes appointed to expert committee!

Kjell will serve on a committee evaluating Norway’s housing support scheme — looking at its impact on living conditions, how it interacts with other benefits, and whether changes are needed.

👉 Read more: www.regjeringen.no/no/aktuelt/u...
January 16, 2026 at 1:32 PM
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🎙️ 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: open.spotify.com/episode/1rlx...
January 15, 2026 at 10:57 AM
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EUDN 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.
January 15, 2026 at 9:20 AM
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📄 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/...
January 13, 2026 at 11:57 AM
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...
January 13, 2026 at 10:28 AM
📄 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=...
January 12, 2026 at 12:54 PM
✨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!
December 23, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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...
December 17, 2025 at 12:56 PM
🎉 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...
December 15, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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🔎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...
Uvanlig syn får uvanlig stor plass
Sissener frykter ikke ulikhet, men det gjør nordmenn flest.
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December 12, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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🎧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...
December 10, 2025 at 9:04 AM
👩‍🎓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-...
December 8, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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💬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...
December 8, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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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.
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Why society offers less sympathy when men fall behind
Society shows less sympathy when men fall behind. New research reveals people blame struggling men more and support fewer policies to help them.
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December 3, 2025 at 9:28 AM
#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...
December 4, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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❓ 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-...
December 4, 2025 at 8:35 AM
🎉 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...
December 2, 2025 at 2:48 PM
#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...
December 1, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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✨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...
November 26, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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🥳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”.
November 25, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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✨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...
November 24, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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💬 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...
Menn åpner seg, men for en chatbot
Les kronikken.
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November 24, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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🌍 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
November 21, 2025 at 1:01 PM