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Åshild Auglænd Johnsen

Åshild Auglænd Johnsen

Job title
  • Associate Professor
Visiting address
  • Pilestredet 35, 0166 Oslo
Phone
  • Office: +47 672 37 091
E-mail
  • ashildauglaend.johnsen@oslomet.no
Affiliation

About

I am an economist specializing in behavioral economics and experimental methods, and an Associate Professor at Oslo Business School, OsloMet.

My research focuses on working life, equality, and discrimination, with a particular emphasis on social norms and what shapes behavior. Methodologically, I work primarily with field and survey experiments, alongside other data sources. I have studied the prevention of sexual harassment in the Norwegian Armed Forces, how exposure to female colleagues affects gender norms and career outcomes, and how social norms spread within organizations and influence trust, competition, and well-being. Ongoing projects examine climate behavior, student finance, and the effects of leadership on workplace culture.

I teach behavioral and experimental economics (ØASØK4400), public and financial economics for non-economists (BALS3200), and econometrics at the master's level (ØAMET4100). I supervise PhD, master's, and bachelor's students, and serve as PhD coordinator at Oslo Business School.

I am the founder and organizer of the OsloMet Field Experiments Workshop, which brings together researchers, practitioners, and policymakers from academia, public administration, and research institutes to discuss field experiments and policy-relevant research. The workshop was first held in 2025 and again in 2026. Topics have ranged from labor markets and integration to climate behavior, leadership, and discrimination (https://www.oslomet.no/en/about/events/field-experiments-workshop-2026).

Personal webpage: https://sites.google.com/view/aaajohnsen

Research groups

Publications and research

Scientific publications

Folke, Olle; Hanson, Torbjørn; Johnsen, Åshild Auglænd ; Kotsadam, Andreas; Rickne, Johanna (2026). Targeting attitudes to combat sexual harassment: A randomized intervention in the Norwegian military. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. Vol. 247.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2026.107596

Kotsadam, Andreas; Dahlum, Sirianne; Johnsen, Åshild Auglænd ; Hanson, Torbjørn; Wuttke, Alexander (2025). Is support for authoritarian rule contagious? Evidence from field and survey experiments. American Journal of Political Science (AJPS).
https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5049239

Johnsen, Åshild Auglænd ; Finseraas, Henning; Hanson, Torbjørn; Kotsadam, Andreas (2023). The malleability of competitive preferences. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics. Vol. 104.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socec.2023.102015

Johnsen, Åshild A. ; Kvaløy, Ola (2021). Conspiracy against the public - An experiment on collusion. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics. Vol. 94.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socec.2021.101742

Finseraas, Henning; Hanson, Torbjørn; Johnsen, Åshild Auglænd ; Kotsadam, Andreas; Torsvik, Gaute (2019). Trust, ethnic diversity, and personal contact: A field experiment. Journal of Public Economics. Vol. 173.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2019.02.002

Almås, Ingvild; Johnsen, Åshild Auglænd (2018). The cost of a growth miracle – reassessing price and poverty trends in China. Review of economic dynamics. Vol. 30.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.red.2018.05.006

Johnsen, Åshild Auglænd ; Kvaløy, Ola (2016). Does strategic kindness crowd out prosocial behavior?. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. Vol. 132.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2016.09.016

Finseraas, Henning; Johnsen, Åshild Auglænd ; Kotsadam, Andreas; Torsvik, Gaute (2016). Exposure to female colleagues breaks the glass ceiling— Evidence from a combined vignette and field experiment. European Economic Review. Vol. 90.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euroecorev.2015.11.010

Johnsen, Åshild Auglænd ; Almås, Ingvild (2012). The cost of living in China: Implications for inequality and poverty. NHH Dept. of Economics Discussion papers. Vol. 21.
https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2205788



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Research reports

Almås, Ingvild; Johnsen, Åshild Auglænd (2018). The cost of growth miracle - reassessing price and poverty trends in China. -239264 p. Elsevier.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3540965

Kotsadam, Andreas; Almås, Ingvild; Johnsen, Åshild Auglænd (2014). Poverty in China as Seen from Outer Space. 17 p. Department of Economics, University of Oslo.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4227943

Melchior, Arne; Johnsen, Åshild Auglænd (2011). Forhandlingsrunden i WTO. Tollreduksjoner for norsk sjømateksport. ISBN: 9788270023073. 35 p. NUPI.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/276904

Melchior, Arne; Stevens, Christopher; Johnsen, Åshild Auglænd (2010). Services and Development - The Scope for Special and Differential Treatment in the GATS. ISBN: 9788270022793. 135 p. NUPI.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/277256



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Dissemination

Ciccone, Alice; Andreassen, Gøril Louise; Johnsen, Åshild Auglænd (2026). Does Cost Information Shift Carsharing Adoption?. OsloMet Field Experiments Workshop 2026. OsloMet .
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/5523250

Wuttke, Alexander; Dahlum, Sirianne; Kotsadam, Andreas; Johnsen, Åshild Auglænd (2023). Peer effects on authoritarianism: Evidence from Norway. European Political Science Association Annual Meeting.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4270334

Almås, Ingvild; Johnsen, Åshild Auglænd (2018). The Cost of a Growth Miracle - Reassessing Poverty and Inequality Trends in China. Review of economic dynamics.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3423805

Johnsen, Åshild Auglænd (2018). The Anatomy of Discrimination - What explains Gender Bias?. The Anatomy of Discrimination - What explains Gender Bias?. Oslo Business School, Oslo Metropolitan University.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3828235

Johnsen, Åshild Auglænd (2016). Trust, Ethnic Diversity, and Personal Contact: Experimental Field Evidence. ESOP Workshop: Learning in Social Situations. Universitetet i Oslo.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4896259

Johnsen, Åshild Auglænd (2016). Trust, Ethnic Diversity, and Personal Contact: Experimental Field Evidence. Statistisk Sentralbyrås seminarserie.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3670589

Medin, Hege; Johnsen, Åshild Auglænd ; Bachke, Maren E. (2016). Trade intermediaries in a growing market. Norway’s rose import under the General System of Preferences. “Traders in the food value chain: Firm size and international food distribution” 2nd workshop. Arne Melchior.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3388794

Johnsen, Åshild Auglænd ; Almås, Ingvild (2013). The Cost of Living in China: Implications for Inequality and Poverty. Macro group seminar. Zürich University.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4821682

Johnsen, Åshild Auglænd ; Kvaløy, Ola (2013). You always meet twice. 6th Maastricht Behavioral and Experimental Economics Symposium (M-BEES 2013). University Maastricht.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4951388

Johnsen, Åshild Auglænd ; Almås, Ingvild (2013). The cost of living in China: Implications for inequality and poverty. Fifth meeting of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality (ECINEQ). University of Bari.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4878784



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