Rune Jørgen Sørensen
Professor, Department of Economics, Norwegian Business School - BI
Contact information:
E-mail: rune.sorensen@bi.no
Telephone: +47 46 41 05 95
ORCID: 0000-0003-0375-7677
Mailing address:
Department of Economics
Norwegian Business School - BI, N-0484 Oslo, Norway
Office Address:
Nydalsveien 37
0484 Oslo, Norway
Recent publications:
Pro-social Preferences and the Paradox of Voting. 2025. With Christine Bangum and Benny Geys. Journal of Public Economics (available online) and available as SSRN Working paper.
The Causal Effect of Affluence on Voter Turnout: New Evidence from Lottery Winnings. 2025. With Benny Geys. British Journal of Political Science (available online)
Transitory Income Windfalls and Charitable Giving: Evidence from Norwegian Register Data, 1993-2021, 2024. With Benny Geys. Economic Journal (available online)
Are politicians more generous? Evidence from charitable giving. 2024. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 227: 106742
Public Employees as Elected Politicians: Assessing Direct and Indirect Substantive Effects of Passive Representation. 2024. With Benny Geys and Zuzana Murdoch). Journal of Politics 86(1): 170-182.
A Post-politics Earnings Penalty? Evidence from Politicians’ Life-time Income Trajectories (1970-2019). 2023. With Benny Geys. Kyklos 77(1): p. 57-76.
Educated politicians and government efficiency: Evidence from Norwegian local government. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 2023, 210: 163-179.
Age and Vote Choice: Is There a Conservative Shift among Older Voters? (With Benny Geys and Tom-Reiel Heggedal) Electoral Studies 78, 2022, Online Appendix.
The Zero-Rent Society. Evidence from Hydropower and Petroleum Windfalls in Norwegian Local Governments. (With Jørgen Juel Andersen) Journal of Public Economics 2022, 209:104650. Online Appendix.
Public Sector Employment and Voter Turnout. (With Benny Geys) American Political Science Review. 2022, 116(1): 367-373 Online Appendix.
Political (Over)Representation of Public Sector Employees and the Double-Motive Hypothesis: Evidence from Norwegian Register Data (2007-2019). (With Benny Geys and Zuzana Murdoch). Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 2022, 32(2):326-341.
Moral hazard in electoral teams: List rank and campaign effort. (With Gary Cox, Jon H. Fiva and Dan Smith) Journal of Public Economics 2021, 200:104457
Political Alignment and Bureaucratic Pay. (With Jon H. Fiva, Benny Geys and Tom Reiel Heggedal) Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 2021, 31(3):596–615.
Administrative Delegation of Budgetary Powers and Fiscal Performance (With Benny Geys) Available as eary view in Kyklos 2020, 73: 477– 499. News coverage in the LSE blog and in the Ökonomenstimme.
Popular support for environmental protection: A life-cycle perspective. British Journal of Political Science 2021, 51(3): 1348-1355. (With Tom-Reiel Heggedal and Benny Geys) Also available as Working paper. News coverage in BI Business Review.
Who dies early? Education, mortality and causes of death in Norway. Social Science & Medicine 2020, 245:112601. (With Jostein Grytten and Irene Skau) Available as Working paper. News coverage on Forskning.no.