Current Positions
Current Positions
Researcher, Center for Migration and Integration Research (CMIR), Stockholm School of Economics, 2026-
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics and Statistics, Linnaeus University, 2023-
Researcher, Center for Migration and Integration Research (CMIR), Stockholm School of Economics, 2026-
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics and Statistics, Linnaeus University, 2023-
Institute for Replication (I4R), Research Fellow, 2025-
ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin - Institute for the Economy and the Future of Work (RFBerlin), Research Affiliate, 2025-
IZA - Institute of Labor Economics, Research Affiliate, 2023-
Institute for Futures Studies (IFFS), Researcher, 2021-
Uppsala Immigration Lab (UIL), Uppsala University, 2020-
Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN), 2017-
Uppsala Center for Fiscal Studies (UCFS), Uppsala University, 2017-
Uppsala Center for Labor Studies (UCLS), Uppsala University, 2017-
Association of Swedish Development Economists (ASWEDE), 2014-
University of California, Berkeley, Spring 2020 (Host: Gabriel Zucman)
Columbia University, Fall 2017 (Host: Wojciech Kopczuk)
PhD Economics, Uppsala University, 2013-2021 (Dissertation: "The Mystery of Inequality")
PhLic Economics, Uppsala University, 2013-2017
MSc Business and Economics, Lund University, 2007-2012
BSc Development Studies, Lund University, 2009-2012
BSc Politics and Economics, Lund University, 2008-2011
Economics
"Try to Balance the Baseline": A Comment on "Parent-Teacher Meetings and Student Outcomes: Evidence from a Developing Country" by Islam (2019), European Economic Review 175: 105021, 2025 (with Carl Bonander, Niklas Jakobsson, Gunther Bensch, Felix Holzmeister and Abel Brodeur)
Social Networks and Immigrant Integration: Experimental Evidence from Sweden, Journal of Development Economics, Accepted, Pre-Results Review, 2022 (with Mounir Karadja and Akib Khan)
Global Earnings Inequality, 1970-2018, Economic Journal 130(632): 2526-2545, 2020 (with Daniel Waldenström)
The Impact of Social Beliefs on Microfinance Performance, Journal of International Development 27(7): 1074-1097, 2015 (with Katarzyna Burzynska)
Other Social Science
A Commentary on "Gender Bias in Parental Attitude: An Experimental Approach" by Begum, Grossman, and Islam (2018), Demography 12344620, 2025 (with Carl Bonander, Gunther Bensch, Niklas Jakobsson and Abel Brodeur)
Where Would Ukrainian Refugees Go if They Could Go Anywhere?, International Migration Review 57(2): 587-602, 2023 (with Mikael Elinder and Oscar Erixson)
Comparing Human-Only, AI-Assisted, and AI-Led Teams on Assessing Research Reproducibility in Quantitative Social Science, I4R Discussion Paper 195, 2025 (with Abel Brodeur, et al.)
How Has the War in Ukraine Affected Russian Sentiments?, IZA Discussion Paper 17457, 2024 (with Mikael Elinder and Oscar Erixson)
Mass Reproducibility and Replicability: A New Hope, I4R Discussion Paper 107, 2024 (with Abel Brodeur, Derek Mikola, Nikolai Cook, et al.)
A Comment on "Your Place in the World: Relative Income and Global Inequality" by Fehr, Mollerstrom and Perez-Truglia (2022), I4R Discussion Paper 228, 2025 (with Erwan Dujeancourt and Francesca Foliano)
A Comment on "Income and Inequality in the Aztec Empire on the Eve of the Spanish Conquest", I4R Discussion Paper 221, 2025
Replication Report: A Comment on Gethin, Martínez-Toledano & Piketty (2022), I4R Discussion Paper 19, 2023 (with Da Gong)
War Policies and Migration Aspirations in Russia, Delmi Report 11, 2024 (with Mikael Elinder and Oscar Erixson)
Vetenskapsrådet och nationalekonomerna, Ekonomisk Debatt 52(1): 79-85, 2024 (with Erik Mohlin)
Vart vill ukrainarna ta vägen? Migrationspreferenser i Ukraina, Ekonomisk Debatt 51(4): 53-57, 2023 (with Mikael Elinder and Oscar Erixson)
Under ytan: Hur många och vilka vill lämna sina länder för att flytta till EU och Sverige?, Delmi Rapport 4, 2023 (with Mikael Elinder and Oscar Erixson)
Hur många kommer fly från Ukraina och vilka EU-länder kommer de söka sig till?, Delmi Policy Brief 3, 2022 (with Mikael Elinder and Oscar Erixson)
Migranters attityder och värderingar, SNS Analys 80, 2021
Femtio år av global ojämlikhet: Har världen blivit mer eller mindre jämlik?, Ekonomisk Debatt 48(4): 5-12, 2020
Course Coordinator, Microeconomics, Linnaeus University, Fall 2025
Lecturer, PhD Course on Equality of Opportunity, Linnaeus University, Spring 2025
Course Coordinator, Academic Writing in Practice, Linnaeus University, Spring 2025
Supervisor, Degree Project (Master), Linnaeus University, 2024-2025
Lecturer, Advanced Econometrics, Linnaeus University, 2023-2025
Lecturer, Microeconomics, Linnaeus University, 2023-2025
Supervisor, Degree Project (Bachelor), Linnaeus University, Spring 2024
Guest Lecturer, Applied Microeconomics, Södertörn University, Spring 2023
Evaluator, Master's Thesis Work, Uppsala University, Spring 2022
Lecturer, Economics of Development, Uppsala University, Spring 2020
Teaching Assistant, Political Economics, Uppsala University, Fall 2018
Seminar Teacher, Principles of Micro- and Macroeconomics, Uppsala University, 2014/2015
Programme Director, Economics Programme, Linnaeus University, 2025/2026
Member, MONA Reference Group, Statistics Sweden (SCB), 2024-
Member, Research Advisory Board, Ownershift, 2024-
Organizer, Internal Seminar, Department of Economics and Statistics, Linnaeus University, 2024-
Short-Term Consultant, World Bank, 2025-2026
Mentor, Women in Economics (WiE) Initiative, 2025-2026
Mentee, SOLE Mentoring Program, Society of Labor Economists (SOLE), 2025-2026
Organizer, Växjö's Replication Games, Institute for Replication (I4R), 2024
Young Economist, 7th Lindau Meeting on Economic Sciences, Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings, 2022
Equality of Opportunity and Big Data Policy Analysis (Lnuc EB), Linnaeus University Centres (Lnuc), 2025-2030
Taxes and Society, Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN), 2023-2027
Labor Market Integration in Transitional Times, Uppsala Immigration Lab (UIL), Forte, 2021-2027
The Socially Sustainable Society, Institute for Futures Studies (IFFS), 2021-2026
The Subjective Integration, Migrant World Values Survey (MWVS), Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund (AMIF), 2021-2022
The Impact of Childhood Circumstances on Individual Outcomes over the Life-Course (IMCHILD), Dynamics of Inequality Across the Life-course (DIAL), NORFACE, 2018-2021