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Alexander Wright Cappelen

Global rank #2576 97%

Institution: Norges Handelshøyskole (NHH)

Primary Field: Theory (weighted toward more recent publications)

Homepage: https://www.nhh.no/en/employees/faculty/alexander-wright-cappelen/

First Publication: 2003

Most Recent: 2025

RePEc ID: pca561 ↗

Publication Scores

Scores use coauthorship adjustment: α/n credit per paper, where n = number of authors. α = 2.01: calibrated so average adjusted count equals average raw count (a zero-sum adjustment).

Period S (4x) A (2x) B (1x) C (½x) Total
Last 5 Years 1.34 2.68 2.08 0.00 12.80
Last 10 Years 3.42 3.59 2.08 0.00 22.92
All Time 4.42 5.90 4.93 0.00 34.62

Publication Statistics

Raw Publications 28
Coauthorship-Adjusted Count 15.72

Publications (28)

Year Article Journal Tier Authors
2025 Universalism: Global Evidence American Economic Review S 3
2025 Cooperation creates moral obligations Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization B 3
2025 Acceptance of Inequality Between Children: Large-Scale Experimental Evidence from China and Norway Economic Journal A 4
2024 Fairness and limited information: Are people Bayesian meritocrats? Journal of Public Economics A 3
2023 Second-Best Fairness: The Trade-off between False Positives and False Negatives American Economic Review S 3
2023 The development gap in economic rationality of future elites Games and Economic Behavior B 4
2023 The Merit Primacy Effect Economic Journal A 4
2022 A Meritocratic Origin of Egalitarian Behaviour Economic Journal A 4
2022 Choice and Personal Responsibility: What Is a Morally Relevant Choice? Review of Economics and Statistics A 4
2021 Understanding the resource curse: A large-scale experiment on corruption in Tanzania Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization B 5
2021 Solidarity and fairness in times of crisis Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization B 4
2020 Cutthroat Capitalism versus Cuddly Socialism: Are Americans More Meritocratic and Efficiency-Seeking than Scandinavians? Journal of Political Economy S 3
2020 The Effect of Early-Childhood Education on Social Preferences Journal of Political Economy S 4
2017 Face-saving or fair-minded: What motivates moral behavior? Journal of the European Economic Association A 4
2016 Just Luck: An Experimental Study of Risk-Taking and Fairness: Erratum American Economic Review S 4
2016 What Explains the Gender Gap in College Track Dropout? Experimental and Administrative Evidence American Economic Review S 5
2016 Fairness is intuitive Experimental Economics A 5
2015 Social Preferences in the Lab: A Comparison of Students and a Representative Population Scandanavian Journal of Economics B 4
2014 An experimental study of prosocial motivation among criminals Experimental Economics A 4
2013 Just Luck: An Experimental Study of Risk-Taking and Fairness American Economic Review S 4
2013 Give and take in dictator games Economics Letters C 5
2013 When do we lie? Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization B 3
2011 Measuring unfair (in)equality Journal of Public Economics A 5
2011 Measuring unfair (in)equality Journal of Public Economics A 5
2010 Responsibility for what? Fairness and individual responsibility European Economic Review B 3
2009 Rewarding effort Economic Theory B 2
2007 The Pluralism of Fairness Ideals: An Experimental Approach American Economic Review S 4
2003 Inequality, segregation, and redistribution Journal of Public Economics A 2