Browsing CMI Open Research Archive by Author "Cappelen, Alexander W."
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Rich Meets Poor - an International Fairness Experiment
Cappelen, Alexander W.; Moene, Karl Ove; Sørensen, Erik Ø.; Tungodden, Bertil (CMI Working Paper, Working paper, 2008)Why do people in rich countries not transfer more of their income to people in the world’s poorest countries? To study this question and the relative importance of needs, entitlements, and nationality in people’s social ... -
Understanding the resource curse: A large-scale experiment on corruption in Tanzania
Cappelen, Alexander W.; Fjeldstad, Odd-Helge; Mmari, Donald; Sjursen, Ingrid Hoem; Tungodden, Bertil (CMI Working Paper WP 2018:5, Working paper, 2018-01-01)Corruption appears to be an important driver of the resource curse in developing countries. We report from a large-scale field experiment in Tanzania that provides causal evidence on how expectations about future natural ...