Papers

Working papers

Cutthroat Capitalism versus Cuddly Socialism: Are Americans More Meritocratic and Efficiency-seeking than Scandinavians? (with B. Tungodden and A. Cappelen). Revise and resubmit, Journal of Political Economy. Current version   Appendices   Pre-analysis plan

Lost in Translation: What Do Engel Curves Tell Us About the Cost of Living? (with T. Beatty and T. Crossley). Manuscript.

Economic asymmetries in partnering: Empirical facts and theoretical foundations (with A. Kotsadam, E. Moen and K. Røed). Manuscript.

Global Income Inequality and Cost-of-Living Adjustment: The Geary-Allen World Accounts (with E. Sørensen). Manuscript.

Published papers

The Cost of a Growth Miracle - Reassessing Poverty and Inequality Trends in China (with Å. Johnsen). Forthcoming, Review of Economic Dynamics.

Measuring and Changing Control: Women's Empowerment and Targeted Transfers (with A. Armand, O. Attanasio and P. Carneiro). The Economic Journal, 2018. Link

A Behaviour-based Approach to the Estimation of Poverty in India (with A. Kjelsrud and R. Somanathan). Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2017. Link

The PPP Approach Revisited: A study of RMB valuation against the USD (with Mandeep Grewal, Marielle Hvide and Serhat Ugurlu). Journal of International Money and Finance, 2017. Link

Rags and Riches: Relative Prices, Non-Homothetic Preferences, and Inequality in India (with A. Kjelsrud). World Development, 2017. Link

Willingness to Compete: Family Matters (with A. Cappelen, K. Salvanes, E. Sørensen and B. Tungodden). Management Science, 2016. Link

What Explains the Gender Gap in College Track Dropout? (with A. Cappelen, K. Salvanes, E. Sørensen and B. Tungodden). American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings, 2016. Link

Fairness and Family Background (with A. Cappelen, K. Salvanes, E. Sørensen and B. Tungodden). Politics, Philosophy and Economics, 2016. Link

International Income Inequality: Measuring PPP Bias by Estimating Engel Curves for Food. American Economic Review, 2012. Link

Older or Wealthier? The Impact of Age Adjustments on Wealth Inequality Ranking of Countries (with M. Mogstad). The Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2012. Link

Adjusting for Age Effects in Cross-sectional Distributions (with T. Havnes and M. Mogstad). Stata Journal, 2012. Link

Measuring Unfair (In)equality (with A. Cappelen, J. Lind, E. Sørensen and B. Tungodden). Journal of Public Economics, 2011. Link

Baby Booming Inequality? Demographic Change and Inequality in Norway, 1967-2004 (with T. Havnes and M. Mogstad). Journal of Economic Inequality, 2011. Link

Development of Fairness Preferences in Children (with A. Cappelen, E. Sørensen and B. Tungodden). Science, 2010. Link

Equalizing Income versus Equalizing Opportunity: A Comparison of the United States and Germany. Research on Economic Inequality, 2008. Link

In Norwegian

Rettferdig ulikhet (with A. Cappelen, I. Haaland and B. Tungodden). Magma - Tidsskrift for økonomi og ledelse, 2015. Link

Modernisert men mindre rettferdig folketrygd (with S. Robstad). Samfunnsøkonomene, 2012. Link

Fra kinesernes sparing til global vekst (with G. Liane and ø. Thøgersen). Magma - Tidsskrift for økonomi og ledelse, 2012. Link

Et valg i blinde? Norske ungdommers kjennskap til ulikheter i arbeidsmarkedet før de gjør sine utdanningsvalg (with K. Salvanes and E. Sørensen). Magma - Tidsskrift for økonomi og ledelse, 2012. Link