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FAIR is a Centre of Excellence on Fairness, Inequality and Rationality at NHH

FAIR is a Centre for Experimental Research on Fairness, Inequality and Rationality at NHH. FAIR is a centre of excellence (Senter for Fremragende Forskning) of the Research Council of Norway founded in 2017. FAIR consists of the two research groups Centre of Empirical Labour Economics and The Choice Lab.

25/09/2026

🗣Bertil Tungodden and Alexander W. Cappelen are presenting at the Recent Advances in Behavioral Economics Workshop!

The workshop takes place at Insel Reichenau on 25–26 September and brings together researchers from several European universities working in behavioural economics.

Bertil will present “Fair Markets” on 25 September, while Alexander will present “Freedom to Freeride” on 26 September.

24/09/2026

🗣️ Roland Rathelot was today’s FAIR Seminar speaker! Rathelot works as a Professor of Economics at ENSAE, IP Paris, and CREST.

Title: "Can technology free time? Experimental evidence from an AI chatbot helping caseworkers solve employers' hiring difficulties"

Abstract: In late 2024, the French public employment service introduced a new AI tool to support caseworkers dedicated to assisting client recruiters in their hiring decisions. Caseworkers support employers through two channels: screening applications from job seekers who apply on their own, and sourcing candidates who have not applied. The tool was designed to help caseworkers when sourcing candidates, and save them time for other tasks. We leverage the randomised implementation of this intervention to measure its impact on job-filling probabilities. We find that the intervention successfully increased the probability of filling posted jobs by between 10 and 15 per cent. While the intervention was intended solely to facilitate the sourcing of job seekers who had not initially applied for the job, we find that the increase in hires comes from both job seekers who were sourced and job seekers who had applied on their own and were screened by the caseworker. Our interpretation is that the AI tool freed up caseworkers’ time, allowing them to devote more time to screening applications (and other tasks).

Thank you for a great seminar, Roland! 👏

22/09/2026

📣 New publication in Nature Human Behaviour!

When is inequality fair? And why can people who agree on the ideal of meritocracy still disagree sharply about redistribution?

Alexander W. Cappelen and Bertil Tungodden have published “Meritocracy and Inequality Acceptance” as part of the Nature Human Behaviour special issue Inequality in a Complex World.

🔎 Read more: https://www.nhh.no/en/research-centres/fair/news/2026/meritocracy-and-inequality-acceptance/

21/09/2026

🗣Adrian Haws will present “Can Immigrants Transfer Their Skills? Evidence from International Census Records” at the Danish Society for Economic and Social History Annual Conference this upcoming Thursday!

Adrian will also present the paper at the Centre for Economic Demography at Lund University on 20 October, followed by the Lund University Workshop on Quantitative Approaches in Economic History on 22 October.

🔎 Read more: https://sites.google.com/site/danishsocietyesh/annual-conferences
https://www.lusem.lu.se/calendar/ced-seminar-adrian-haws

21/09/2026

FAIR Day 2026✨

Last week, we gathered at Kulturhuset i Bergen for our annual kick-off event!

FAIR Day brings the whole centre together and gives us the opportunity to welcome our new employees and get to know each other better. The programme included research presentations from PhD students, postdoctoral researchers and professors, followed by team-building activities and dinner.

Thank you to everyone who presented, participated and helped make it such a great day!

📸 Odd Mehus | Susanne Løge

17/09/2026

🗣️ Andreas Kotsadam has been visiting FAIR this week and was today’s FAIR Seminar speaker!

Andreas is a senior researcher at the Frisch Centre, a professor at the University of Oslo, and affiliated with EGAP and CESifo.

He presented "Factory Jobs and Fertility: Long-term Experimental Evidence from Ethiopia".

Abstract: We conducted an experiment with 27 factories in Ethiopia to test the widespread hypothesis that formal employment among women reduces fertility. Tracking respondents over eight years, we find that women who were randomly offered a job had more children than the control group. The effect on fertility emerged once the effect on wage employment faded away, around three years after baseline. There are clear effects on household income and savings, but not on bargaining power or marriage. These patterns are consistent with a Beckerian model in which the income effect dominates the substitution effect and households are credit constrained.

Thank you for a great seminar, Andreas! ✨

11/09/2026

🗣Today, Kjell G. Salvanes is presenting “From Education to Careers: How Socioeconomic Status Shapes Career Trajectories" at the CESifo Area Conference on Economics of Education in Munich!

The conference brings together CESifo network members to discuss recent research across the broad field of economics of education.

🔎 Read more: https://www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/event/2026-09-11/cesifo-area-conference-economics-education-2026

10/09/2026

🗣️ Today’s speaker at the FAIR seminar was Marc Kaufmann, Associate Professor at the Department of Economics and Business at Central European University.
He presented The Welfare Economics of Social Responsibility.

Thank you for an interesting seminar Marc!✨

09/09/2026

📢 We are hiring PhD candidates at FAIR/Department of Economics!

🔹 FAIR Markets – European Research Council-funded project
Research on the moral foundations of markets, including how people evaluate the fairness and legitimacy of market transactions.

🔹 FOUNDATIONS: The Foundations of Labor Productivity – European Research Council-funded project
Research on how labor-market structures shape workers, firms, workplace organization, and productivity, with a particular focus on market power and human capital.

🔹 Labor-Market Structures, Working Conditions, and Worker Well-Being – NFR FRIPRO
Research on how labor-market structures and institutions affect working conditions and workers’ broader life outcomes, including worker voice, workplace environment, and well-being.

📅 Application deadline: Tuesday, September 15
🔗 Read more and apply here: https://www.nhh.no/en/research-centres/fair/news/2026/phd-positions/

Please share with anyone who might be interested!

09/09/2026

⏳ Application deadline: 15 September 2026

PhD Course: Transforming Economic and Financial Research with AI

The Department of Economics and FAIR invite PhD students to a four-day course with Professor Ingar K. Haaland.

📍 NHH Norwegian School of Economics, Bergen
📅 12–15 October 2026
🎓 5 ECTS

The course explores how recent advances in generative AI are reshaping research in economics and finance. Participants will learn how to integrate AI into research workflows, work with large language models at scale, and identify opportunities to apply AI in their own research projects. The course will also cover coding agents and reproducible AI workflows for research.

Lectures will be given by Ingar K. Haaland, Christopher Roth, and Luca Braghieri.

Read more and apply: https://www.nhh.no/.../2026/phd-course-with-ingar-haaland/

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