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Overview

Bertil Tungodden is affiliated with the Norwegian School of Economics in Norway. Their research primarily spans several interdisciplinary fields, with a focus on economics and behavioral studies.

Their recent publications include the following papers:

  • "Solidarity and fairness in times of crisis," 2021, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
  • "The future of human behaviour research," 2022, Nature Human Behaviour
  • "A Meritocratic Origin of Egalitarian Behaviour," 2022, The Economic Journal
  • "Exercise Improves Academic Performance," 2025, Journal of Political Economy
  • "The development of social comparisons and sharing behavior across 12 countries," 2020, Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Frequently collaborating with other researchers, Tungodden's coauthors include:

  • Edward Miguel
  • Kjetil Bjorvatn
  • Lars Ivar Oppedal Berge
  • Simon Galle
  • Kelly Zhang

Their work appears regularly in several publication venues, including:

  • Harvard Dataverse
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • AEA Randomized Controlled Trials
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization

Tungodden's academic research covers multiple subfields, notably:

  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Safety Research
  • Demography
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Economics and Econometrics

Key topics addressed in their research include:

  • Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
  • Culture, Economy, and Development Studies
  • Names, Identity, and Discrimination Research
  • Media Influence and Politics
  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
  • Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
  • Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare

Best Publications

  • The pluralism of fairness ideals: An experimental approach

    Alexander W. Cappelen;Astri Drange Hole;Erik Ø. Sørensen;Bertil Tungodden

  • Just Luck: An Experimental Study of Risk-Taking and Fairness

    Alexander Wright Cappelen;James Konow;Erik Øiolf Sørensen;Bertil Tungodden

  • Fairness and the Development of Inequality Acceptance

    Ingvild Almås;Alexander W. Cappelen;Erik Ø. Sørensen;Bertil Tungodden

  • Cutthroat capitalism versus cuddly socialism: Are Americans more meritocratic and efficiency-seeking than Scandinavians?

    Ingvild Almas;Alexander W. Cappelen;Bertil Tungodden

  • Human and Financial Capital for Microenterprise Development: Evidence from a Field and Lab Experiment

    Lars Ivar Oppedal Berge;Kjetil Bjorvatn;Bertil Tungodden

  • Responsibility for what? Fairness and individual responsibility

    Alexander Wright Cappelen;Erik Øiolf Sørensen;Erik Øiolf Sørensen;Bertil Tungodden;Bertil Tungodden

  • You’ve Got Mail: A Randomized Field Experiment on Tax Evasion

    Kristina Bott;Alexander Wright Cappelen;Erik Øiolf Sørensen;Bertil Tungodden

  • Measuring unfair (in)equality

    Ingvild Almås;Ingvild Almås;Alexander W. Cappelen;Jo Thori Lind;Erik Ø. Sørensen

  • Willingness to Compete: Family Matters

    Ingvild Almås;Alexander W. Cappelen;Kjell Gunnar Salvanes;Erik Ø. Sørensen

  • NEEDS VERSUS ENTITLEMENTS—AN INTERNATIONAL FAIRNESS EXPERIMENT

    Alexander W. Cappelen;Karl O. Moene;Erik Ø. Sørensen;Bertil Tungodden

  • When do we lie

    Alexander W. Cappelen;Erik Ø. Sørensen;Bertil Tungodden

  • Fiscal Corruption: A Vice or a Virtue?

    Odd-Helge Fjeldstad;Bertil Tungodden

  • Social Preferences in the Lab: A Comparison of Students and a Representative Population

    Alexander W. Cappelen;Knut Nygaard;Erik Ø. Sørensen;Bertil Tungodden

  • The development of children's preferences for equality and equity across 13 individualistic and collectivist cultures.

    Elizabeth Huppert;Jason M. Cowell;Jason M. Cowell;Yawei Cheng;Carlos Contreras-Ibáñez

  • The value of equality

    Bertil Tungodden

  • Face-saving or fair-minded: What motivates moral behavior?

    Alexander W. Cappelen;Trond Halvorsen;Erik Ø. Sørensen;Bertil Tungodden

  • Give and take in dictator games

    Alexander Wright Cappelen;Ulrik H. Nielsen;Erik Øiolf Sørensen;Bertil Tungodden

  • TEACHING BUSINESS IN TANZANIA: EVALUATING PARTICIPATION AND PERFORMANCE

    Kjetil Bjorvatn;Bertil Tungodden

  • The Effect of Early Childhood Education on Social Preferences.

    Alexander Cappelen;John List;Anya Samek;Bertil Tungodden

  • Fairness is intuitive

    Alexander W. Cappelen;Ulrik Haagen Nielsen;Bertil Tungodden;Jean-Robert Karl Tyran;Jean-Robert Karl Tyran

  • Resolving Distributional Conflicts Between Generations

    Geir B. Asheim;Bertil Tungodden

Frequent Co-Authors

Ole Frithjof Norheim
Ole Frithjof Norheim University of Bergen
Karsten Specht
Karsten Specht University of Bergen
Tom Eichele
Tom Eichele Haukeland University Hospital
Agustín Ibáñez
Agustín Ibáñez Adolfo Ibáñez University
Kenneth Hugdahl
Kenneth Hugdahl University of Bergen
Jean Decety
Jean Decety University of Chicago
David Huepe
David Huepe Adolfo Ibáñez University
Kang Lee
Kang Lee University of Toronto
Philippe N. Tobler
Philippe N. Tobler University of Zurich
Bernd Weber
Bernd Weber University of Bonn

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