Karin Edmark is an economist at Stockholm University and a member of the Swedish Fiscal Policy Council. Her research lies at the intersection of labour economics, public economics, and economics of education, with a particular interest in how institutions and economic environments shape individuals’ opportunities and outcomes.
Her research includes work on education and school choice, school segregation, labour markets, and worker outcomes. Her work combines large-scale administrative register data with applied econometric methods to study causal relationships and policy-relevant questions. Recent projects include a collaboration with researchers in Sociology and Education Policy at Bergen University and UCL, studying school choice in European cities ("Admission Impossible? School choice in European cities" | UiB) and studies on the preschool market in Sweden, with a focus on worker outcomes. Her current research focuses on implications of digital time monitoring on workers in the Swedish preschool sector.
Karin has extensive teaching experience at both undergraduate and Master’s level. At Stockholm University, she teaches at the Labour Relations and Management course (Våra utbildningar - Stockholms universitet), and has previously taught applied statistical methods. At Uppsala University, she has taught Econometric Theory, Applied Econometrics, and Public Economics.