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Is Support for Authoritarian Rule Contagious? Evidence from Field and Survey Experiments
American Journal of Political Science, forthcoming. With Dahlum, Hanson, Johnsen and Wuttke.
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Does Integration Change Gender Attitudes? The Effect of Randomly Assigning Women to Traditionally Male Teams
The Quarterly Journal of Economics 136(2), 987–1030, 2021. With Gordon Dahl and Dan-Olof Rooth.
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Rearranging the Desk Chairs: A Large Randomized Field Experiment on the Effects of Close Contact on Interethnic Relations
American Journal of Sociology, 2023. With Felix Elwert and Tamás Keller.
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How Settlement Locations and Local Networks Influence Immigrant Political Integration
American Journal of Political Science 65(3), 551–565, 2021. With Bernt Bratsberg, Jeremy Ferwerda and Henning Finseraas.
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Mining and local corruption in Sub-Saharan Africa
American Journal of Political Science 61(2), 320–334, 2017. With Eivind Hammersmark Olsen, Carl Henrik Knutsen and Tore Wig.
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Culture and Gender Differences in Willingness to Compete
The Economic Journal 133(654), 2403–2426, 2023. With Karen Evelyn Hauge and Anine Riege.
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Jobs and Political Participation — Evidence from a Field Experiment in Ethiopia
Journal of Politics, forthcoming. With Lovise Aalen, Janneke Pieters and Espen Villanger.
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Jobs and intimate partner violence — Evidence from a Field Experiment in Ethiopia
Journal of Human Resources, 2022. With Espen Villanger.
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Reproducibility and Robustness of Economics and Political Science Research
Nature, 2026. With Abel Brodeur and others.
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Cooperative Property Rights and Development: Evidence from Land Reform in El Salvador — A Comment
Journal of Political Economy, 2023. With Anders Kjelsrud and Ole Rogeberg.
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Does Wealth Reduce Support for Redistribution? Evidence from an Ethiopian Housing Lottery
Journal of Public Economics, 2023. With Andersen, Franklin, Getahun, Somville and Villanger.
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Trust, Ethnic Diversity, and Personal Contact: A Field Experiment
Journal of Public Economics 173, 72–84, 2019. With Henning Finseraas, Torbjørn Hanson, Åshild A. Johnsen and Gaute Torsvik.
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Effects of speed-schools in Niger
Journal of Public Economics, 2025. With Anne Kielland and Jing Liu.
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Chinese aid and local corruption
Journal of Public Economics 159, 146–159, 2018. With Ann-Sofie Isaksson.
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Material resources and well-being — Evidence from an Ethiopian housing lottery
Journal of Health Economics, 2022. With Asbjørn Andersen and Vincent Somville.
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Wealth and charitable giving — Evidence from an Ethiopian lottery
Journal of Development Economics, 2024. With Vincent Somville.
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The Economics of Hypergamy
Journal of Human Resources, 2020. With Ingvild Almås, Espen Moen and Knut Røed.
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Exposure to female colleagues breaks the glass ceiling — Evidence from a combined vignette and field experiment
European Economic Review 90, 363–374, 2016. With Henning Finseraas, Åshild A. Johnsen and Gaute Torsvik.
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Effects of Dialogue Meetings
Journal of Health Economics. With Matteo Alpino, Karen Evelyn Hauge and Simen Markussen.
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Is it Time to Put a Moratorium on List Experiments for Domestic Violence Elicitation?
Sociological Methods & Research, 2025. With Mette Løvgren.
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Female employment and voter turnout — Evidence from India
Journal of Politics. With Anders Kjelsrud.
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Ready for School? Effects on School Starters of Establishing School Psychology Offices in Norway
Education Economics, 2025. With Martin Flatø, Bernt Bratsberg, Fartein Ask Torvik, Ole Røgeberg and Camilla Stoltenberg.
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Do funds for more teachers improve student outcomes?
Journal of Human Resources, 2025. With Borgen, Kirkebøen and Raaum.
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Promoting Reproducibility and Replicability in Political Science
Research & Politics 11(1), 2024. With Brodeur, Esterling, Ankel-Peters, Bueno, Desposato, Dreber, Genovese, Green, Hepplewhite, Hoces de la Guardia, Johannesson and others.
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Birth Order and Voter Turnout
British Journal of Political Science, 2020. With Bratsberg, Dawes, Lindgren, Oskarsson, Raaum and Öhrvall.
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Ancestry culture and female employment — An analysis using second generation siblings
European Sociological Review 33(3), 382–392, 2017. With Henning Finseraas.
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Does Personal Contact with Ethnic Minorities Affect Anti-immigrant Sentiments? Evidence From a Field Experiment
European Journal of Political Research 56(3), 703–722, 2017. With Henning Finseraas.
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Strikes and Machines: Investments in the Norwegian Inter-war Period
The Journal of Economic History, 2026. With Kjelsrud, Moene, Gjerløw and Rasmussen.
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Targeting attitudes to combat sexual harassment: A randomized intervention in the Norwegian military
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2026. With Olle Folke, Torbjørn Hanson, Åshild A. Johnsen and Johanna Rickne.
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Gender Bias in Public Long-term Care? A Survey Experiment among Care Managers
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 131, 126–138, 2016. With Niklas Jakobsson, Astri Syse and Henning Øien.
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The Political Economy of Aid Allocation: Aid and Incumbency at the Local Level in Sub-Saharan Africa
World Development, 2020. With Tora Knutsen.
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Organized Violence and Institutional Child Delivery — Micro-Level Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa, 1989–2014
Demography 55(4), 1295–1316, 2018. With Gudrun Østby, Henrik Urdal, Andreas Forø Tollefsen, Ragnhild Belbo and Christin Ormhaug.
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Armed Conflict and Maternal Mortality: A Micro-Level Analysis of Sub-Saharan Africa, 1989–2013
Social Science & Medicine, 2019. With Gudrun Østby.
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The Malleability of Competitive Preferences
Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics 104, 2023. With Henning Finseraas, Torbjørn Hanson and Åshild A. Johnsen.
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Rainfall Shocks and Violence Against Women in Sub-Saharan Africa
Journal of Peace Research, 2020. With Sara Cools and Martin Flatø.
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Racing to the Bottom? Chinese Development Projects and Trade Union Involvement in Africa
World Development 106, 284–298, 2018. With Ann-Sofie Isaksson.
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Development Aid and Infant Mortality — Micro-level Evidence from Nigeria
World Development 105, 59–69, 2018. With Gudrun Østby, Siri Aas Rustad, Andreas Forø Tollefsen and Henrik Urdal.
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Resources and Intimate Partner Violence in Sub-Saharan Africa
World Development 95, 211–230, 2017. With Sara Cools.
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Quantifying Social Segregation in Large-Scale Networks
Scientific Reports 12(1), 1–7, 2022. With Bjørn-Atle Reme, Johannes Bjelland, Pål Roe Sundsøy and Jo Thori Lind.
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African Mining, Gender, and Local Employment
World Development 83, 325–339, 2016. With Anja Tolonen.
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Call the Midwife — Health Personnel and Mortality in Norway 1887–1921
Cliometrica, forthcoming. With Jo Thori Lind and Jørgen Modalsli.
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Ancestry Culture, Assimilation, and Voter Turnout in Two Generations
Political Behavior, 2020. With Henning Finseraas and Javier Polavieja.
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Structural Change and Wife-beating: A Disaggregated Study of Mineral Mining and Intimate Partner Abuse in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1999–2013
Political Geography 56, 53–65, 2016. With Gudrun Østby and Siri Aas Rustad.
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Causal Effects of Parental Leave on Adolescents' Household Work
Social Forces 92(1), 329–351, 2013. With Henning Finseraas.
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A Field Experiment of Discrimination in the Norwegian Housing Market: Gender, Class, and Ethnicity
Land Economics 88(2), 233–240, 2012. With Lisa Andersson and Niklas Jakobsson.
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Do Laws Affect Attitudes? An Assessment of the Norwegian Prostitution Law Using Longitudinal Data
International Review of Law and Economics 31(2), 103–115, 2011. With Niklas Jakobsson.
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Did the Murder of Theo van Gogh Change Europeans' Immigration Policy Preferences?
Kyklos 64(3), 396–409, 2011. With Henning Finseraas and Niklas Jakobsson.
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The State Intervenes in the Battle of the Sexes: Causal Effects of Paternity Leave
Social Science Research 40(6), 1611–1622, 2011. With Henning Finseraas.
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Effects of Jobs on Ethnic Switching — Evidence from a Field Experiment in Ethiopia
The Journal of Development Studies, 2025. With Monica Beeder, Lovise Aalen and Espen Villanger.
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The Gender Gap in African Political Participation: Testing Theories of Individual and Contextual Determinants
Journal of Development Studies 50(2), 302–318, 2013. With Ann-Sofie Isaksson and Måns Nerman.
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The Gender Gap in Political Preferences: An Empirical Test of a Political Economy Explanation
Social Politics 19(2), 219–242, 2012. With Niklas Jakobsson and Henning Finseraas.
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Exploring Cross-national and Multilevel Correlates of Partner Violence: An Analysis of Population-based Surveys
The Lancet Global Health 3(6), 2015. With Lori Heise.
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Honey Pot or Sunshine? Foreign Direct Investment, the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention, and Local Corruption in Africa
International Studies Quarterly, 2020. With Sam Brazys.
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Family Law Reform, Employment and Women's Political Participation in Ethiopia
Social Politics, 2019. With Lovise Aalen and Espen Villanger.
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The Local Socioeconomic Effects of Gold Mining: Evidence from Ghana
The Extractive Industries and Society. With Punam Chuhan-Pole, Andrew Dabalen, Aly Sanoh and Anja Tolonen.
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The Law and Economics of International Sex Slavery: Prostitution Laws and Trafficking for Sexual Exploitation
European Journal of Law and Economics 35(1), 2013. With Niklas Jakobsson.
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Demand and Supply of Prostitution
Encyclopedia of Law and Economics, Springer, 2014. With Øystein Hernæs and Niklas Jakobsson.
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The Economics of Trafficking for Sexual Exploitation
Handbook of the Economics of Prostitution, Oxford University Press, 2013. With Niklas Jakobsson.
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Does Marriage Affect Men's Labor Market Outcomes? A European Perspective
Review of Economics of the Household, 2013. With Niklas Jakobsson.
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Shame on You, John! Laws, Stigmatization, and the Demand for Sex
European Journal of Law and Economics, 2013. With Niklas Jakobsson.
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Does Informal Eldercare Impede Women's Employment? The Case of European Welfare States
Feminist Economics 17(2), 121–144, 2011.
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The Employment Costs of Caregiving in Norway
International Journal of Health Care Finance and Economics 12(4), 269–283, 2012.
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Does Development Aid Reach Politically Excluded Groups? A Disaggregated Study of the Location of Aid in Sub-Saharan Africa
Development Policy Review 42(3), e12756, 2024. With Rustad, Hoelscher, Østby and Urdal.
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Informal Eldercare and Care for Disabled Children in the Nordic Countries: Prevalence and Relation to Employment
Nordic Journal of Social Research 4, 2013. With Niklas Jakobsson and Marta Szebehely.
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Gender and Overconfidence: Effects of Context, Gendered Stereotypes, and Peer Group
Advances in Applied Sociology 3(2), 137–141, 2013. With Niklas Jakobsson and Minna Levin.
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Gender and Overconfidence: Are Girls Really Overconfident?
Applied Economics Letters 18(4), 325–327, 2011. With Dahlbom, Jakobsson and Jakobsson.
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Gender Equity and Prostitution: An Investigation of Attitudes in Norway and Sweden
Feminist Economics 17(1), 31–58, 2011. With Niklas Jakobsson.
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Do Attitudes Toward Gender Equality Really Differ Between Norway and Sweden?
Journal of European Social Policy 20(2), 142–159, 2010. With Niklas Jakobsson.
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Attitudes Toward Same-Sex Marriage: The Case of Scandinavia
Journal of Homosexuality 60(9), 1349–1360, 2013. With Niklas Jakobsson and Siri Jakobsson.
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Effekter av satsing på økt lærertetthet
Økonomiske Analyser 5/2016. With Lars J. Kirkebøen and Oddbjørn Raaum.
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Hvordan identifisere årsakssammenhenger i ikke-eksperimentelle data?
Tidsskrift for Samfunnsforskning 2013(3), 371–387. With Henning Finseraas.
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Årsak og virkning?
Sosiologi i dag 43(3), 5–7, 2013. With Torkild Hovde Lyngstad and Mette Løvgren.
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Uformell eldreomsorg — et hinder for kvinner på arbeidsmarkedet?
Søkelys på arbeidslivet 29(1–2), 97–100, 2012. With Niklas Jakobsson.
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Er det en sammenheng mellom formell og uformell omsorg i Norge?
Tidsskrift for Velferdsforskning 17(3), 22–29, 2012. With Jakobsson and Hansen.