Bertil Tungodden
Professor, Department of Economics, NHH Norwegian School of Economics
Bertil Tungodden is a professor at the Department of Economics, NHH Norwegian School of Economics (NHH), Scientific Director of the Centre of Excellence FAIR (Centre for Experimental Research on Fairness, Inequality and Rationality) and co-director of the research group The Choice Lab. He is an Einstein Visiting Fellow at Humboldt University in Berlin and Associated Senior Researcher at Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI) in Bergen, and serve as an associate editor in Journal of Political Economy and Social Choice and Welfare. Tungodden’s research spans behavioral and experimental economics, development economics, distributive justice and social choice theory. He presently has an ERC Advanced Grant on the project “Fairness and the moral mind” and a Research Excellence Grant from the Research Council of Norway on “Fair inequality and personal responsibility.”
Recent work by Bertil Tungodden
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When empowerment raises incomes – and early pregnancies
A five-year randomised trial across Tanzania finds that entrepreneurship training delivered to young women before family obligations set in produces lasting income gains, but both economic and reproductive-health programmes unexpectedly increased ear...
Published 28.05.26
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How gender norms are perceived across the world
Data from 60 countries across six continents reveals that, in almost every country, the support for basic rights is underestimated, especially among men, suggesting that aligning perceived and actual views may be a promising policy intervention to ra...
Published 29.02.24