Erik Prawitz
I am a Senior Lecturer 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. Examples of ongoing work include the returns to migration during the Age of Mass Migration, the effects of the rollout of a railroad network on the collaboration among inventors, and how a rising metropolis like Stockholm during the second industrial revolution could shape the increase in female labor force participation. Currently, I teach courses in Econometrics and the Economics of Migration.
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E-mail: erik.prawitz@lnu.se; erik.prawitz@ifn.se
Work in Progress:
Cities and the Rise of Working Women (w. Thor Berger & Mounir Karadja)
Home, Sweet Home: Returns to Returning in the Age of Mass Migration (w. Olof Ejermo, Kerstin Enflo, & Björn Eriksson) - R&R AEJ: Applied
Engineers and Economic Development (w. Thor Berger)
City of My Dreams (several projects w. Thor Berger, Mounir Karadja & Martin Önnerfors)
Publications:
Inventors among the ``Impoverished Sophisticate'' (w. Thor Berger), The Journal of Economic History, forthcoming.
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.
Other publications [non peer-reviewed]:
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.
Contact info
Mailing address
Institutionen för Nationalekonomi och Statistik Ekonomihögskolan Linnéuniversitetet, Hus KGeorg Lückligs väg 4352 52 VäxjöSwedenor Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN)Box 55665102 15 StockholmSweden
Telephone
+46 (0)70 43 03 258 (mobile)+46 (0)8 665 4535 (office IFN)