Browsing NHH Brage by Author "Falch, Ranveig"
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Acceptance of inequality between children: Large-Scale Experimental Evidence from China and Norway
Cappelen, Alexander W.; Falch, Ranveig; Huang, Zhongjing; Tungodden, Bertil (SAM DP;10/2022, Working paper, 2022-07)In a novel experimental design with nearly 10,000 adults and children, we study how adults in two societies characterized by very different levels of income inequality, Shanghai (China) and Norway, make real distributive ... -
Disability, social identity, and entrepreneurship : evidence from a laboratory experiement in rural Uganda
Falch, Ranveig; Hernæs, Ulrikke Johanne Voltersvik (Master thesis, 2012)People with disabilities (PWDs) often face social exclusion due to the stigma associated with having a disability. This results in many PWDs being disadvantaged economically, in education attainment and career opportunities. ... -
How Do People Trade Off Resources Between Quick and Slow Learners?
Falch, Ranveig (DP SAM;05/2021, Working paper, 2021-02)How society invests in human capital is important for economic growth and social welfare. The paper reports from the first experiment designed to elicit people’s preferences for how to prioritize educational resources, ... -
Inequality acceptance among children : an empirical analysis of the development of social preferences through childhood and adolescence in China and Norway
Rong, Victoria; Søbstad, Ingunn (Master thesis, 2019)Inequality is a pressing social issue and inequality considerations figure prominently in almost all spheres of society. The general perception of whether an inequality is fair or not, is often related to the source of ... -
Kvinner, kontekst og konkurranse
Bjorvatn, Kjetil; Falch, Ranveig; Hernæs, Ulrikke Johanne (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012)Det har i den senere tid vært knyttet stor optimisme til entreprenørskap som vei ut av fattigdom. Mikrofinansbevegelsen, for eksempel, bygger på idéen om at fattige mennesker har kunnskapene og holdningene som skal til for ... -
Solidarity and Fairness in Times of Crisis
Cappelen, Alexander W.; Falch, Ranveig; Sørensen, Erik Ø.; Tungodden, Bertil (DP SAM;06/2020, Working paper, 2020-05-14)In a large-scale pre-registered survey experiment with a representative sample of more than 8,000 Americans, we examine how the COVID-19 pandemic causally affects people’s solidarity and fairness. We randomly manipulate ... -
The Boy Crisis: Experimental Evidence on the Acceptance of Males Falling Behind
Cappelen, Alexander W.; Falch, Ranveig; Tungodden, Bertil (DP SAM;06/2019, Working paper, 2019-03-01)The ‘boy crisis’ prompts the question of whether people interpret inequalities differently depending on whether males or females are lagging behind. We study this question in a novel large-scale distributive experiment ...