Vegard Iversen

Economics, Econometrics and Finance · Social Sciences

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Research Topics

Taxation and Compliance Studies(12), Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics(12), Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare(12), Microfinance and Financial Inclusion(11), Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies(10)

Publications81 total

Selecting the ‘Best’? Competing Dimensions of Politician Quality in the Developing World
British Journal of Political Science·2025Open Access
Politicians, institutional incentives, and citizen welfare: evidence from a lab-in-the-field experiment in India
Oxford Economic Papers·2024· 2 citedOpen Access
Barriers or catalysts? Traditional institutions and social mobility in rural India
Working Paper Series·2023Open Access
Barriers or Catalysts? Traditional Institutions and Social Mobility in Rural India
SSRN Electronic Journal·2023Open Access
Evaluation of IDEA project in Bangladesh: a baseline report
2022· 2 citedOpen Access
Time in Office and the Changing Gender Gap in Dishonesty: Evidence from Local Politics in India
American Journal of Political Science·2022· 12 citedOpen Access
Replication Data for: Time in Office and the Changing Gender Gap in Dishonesty: Evidence from Local Politics in India
Harvard Dataverse·2022Open Access
Social Mobility in Developing Countries
2021· 2 citedOpen Access
The State of Knowledge about Social Mobility in the Developing World
2021· 4 cited
Social Mobility in Developing Countries
2021· 1 cited
Selecting the Best of Us? Politician Quality in Village Councils in West Bengal, India
SSRN Electronic Journal·2020· 2 citedOpen Access
Time in Office and the Changing Gender Gap in Dishonesty: Evidence from Local Politics in India
SSRN Electronic Journal·2020· 5 citedOpen Access
Moral reputation and political selection in a decentralized democracy: Theory and evidence from India
Working Paper Series·2020· 1 citedOpen Access
Can ‘good’ social mobility news be ‘bad’ and vice versa? Measurement (and downward mobility) pitfalls
Working Paper Series·2020
Beyond Poverty Escapes—Social Mobility in Developing Countries: A Review Article
2019· 2 cited
Beyond Poverty Escapes—Social Mobility in Developing Countries: A Review Article
The World Bank Research Observer·2019· 64 citedOpen Access
Employee Referral, Social Proximity, and Worker Discipline: Theory and Suggestive Evidence from India
Economic Development and Cultural Change·2019· 18 citedOpen Access
Politicians and their promises in an uncertain world: Evidence from a lab-in-the-field experiment in India
Working Paper Series·2019Open Access
Employee referral, social proximity and worker discipline: theory and suggestive evidence from India
RePEc: Research Papers in Economics·2019· 1 citedOpen Access
All You Need is Cable TV?
The Journal of Development Studies·2018· 2 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Kunal Sen(10), Arjan Verschoor(8), Richard Palmer‐Jones(6), Gaute Torsvik(6), Amaresh Dubey(5), Yashodhan Ghorpade(4), Anirudh Krishna(4), Jens B. Aune(4), Amrita Dhillon(4), Farzana Afridi(3), Cecile Jackson(3), Bereket Kebede(3), Alistair Munro(3), Jyotsna Puri(3), Anastasia Aladysheva(3), Tilman Brück(3), Ananish Chaudhuri(3), Francesca R. Jensenius(3), Pushkar Maitra(3), Paul Francis(2)