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Contact: erik.prawitz@lnu.se; erik.prawitz@ifn.se
I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics and Statistics at Linnéuniversitetet and a Research Fellow at the Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN). I hold a PhD in economics from the Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholm University.
My primary research interests are in economic development, political economics, and economic history.
CfP: Workshop in Economic History 2026. Past programs: 2023, 2024, 2025.
Find my CV here.
Cities and the Rise of Working Women (w. Thor Berger & Mounir Karadja) - New draft
Water and the Urban Mortality Decline: Micro-level evidence from Stockholm (w. Thor Berger, Mounir Karadja & Martin Önnerfors)
Engineers and Economic Development (w. Thor Berger)
City of My Dreams (several projects w. Thor Berger, Mounir Karadja & Martin Önnerfors)
Home, Sweet Home: Returns to Returning in the Age of Mass Migration (w. Olof Ejermo, Kerstin Enflo, & Björn Eriksson), AEJ: Applied Economics, 17(4): 29–59, 2025.
Inventors among the "Impoverished Sophisticate" (w. Thor Berger), The Journal of Economic History, 84(4):1175–1207, 2024.
Collaboration and Connectivity: Historical Evidence from Patent Records (w. Thor Berger), Journal of Urban Economics, 139, 2024.
"Making a Market: Infrastructure, Integration, and the Rise of Innovation" (w. David Andersson & Thor Berger), the Review of Economics and Statistics, 105(2): 258–274, 2023.
"Mass Migration and Technological Change" (w. David Andersson & Mounir Karadja), Journal of the European Economic Association, 20(5), 1859-1896, 2022.
"Exit, Voice and Political Change: Evidence from Swedish Mass Migration to the United States" (w. Mounir Karadja), Journal of Political Economy, 127(4), 1864-1925, 2019.
Konjunkturrådets rapport 2024: Näringslivets produktivitetsutveckling (w. Lars Persson, Karin Edmark, Pehr-Johan Norbäck), SNS Förlag.
"On the Move: Essays on the Economic and Political Development of Sweden", The Journal of Economic History, 79(2), 534-538, 2019 [Dissertation summary including comments by Mark Koyama]. Awarded the Alexander Gerschenkron Prize for the best dissertation in non-US or Canadian Economic History.
"Emigrationen till Amerika och den svenska arbetarrörelsen" (w. Mounir Karadja), Ekonomisk Debatt, 46(8), 19-29, 2018. Awarded the Myrdal Prize for the best paper in Ekonomisk Debatt 2018.
Mailing address
Institutionen för Nationalekonomi och Statistik Ekonomihögskolan Linnéuniversitetet, Hus KGeorg Lückligs väg 4352 52 VäxjöSwedenTelephone
+46 (0)70 43 03 258 (mobile)Bluesky
@erikprawitz.bsky.social