About Me

Welcome to my personal webpage. I am a Professor of Economics at the University of Gothenburg.  I am a labor economist, and have conducted extensive research on the economics of crime and the criminal justice system. 

My current research emphasizes:

• the determinants of crime, 

• jury and judge decision making, 

• racial biases in the criminal justice system, 

• the economics of crime in a historical context, 

• the effects of prison, and

• the labor market for workers with criminal records. 

Current Activities/Affiliations:    Member in The Prize Committee for the Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2023 - ), CEPR Research Fellow, Scientific Board of Swedish Prison and Probation Services (Kriminalvården),  Board of Editors for American Economic Review (2025 - ), Rockwool Foundation Berlin Research Fellow (2025-)

Previous Activities/Affiliations:  Co-Editor, Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization (2020-2022), Council Member for the European Society of Population Economics (ESPE),  Executive Committee Member of the European Association of Labour Economics (EALE),  EEA representative and Chair of the European Job Market for Economists (EJME) Committee, Board of Editors for American Economic Journal: Economic Policy (2021-2024)

My research has been funded by the European Research Council, Vetenskapsrådet (Swedish Research Council) Distinguished Young Researchers Program, Vetenskapsrådet project grants, US NSF Grant, Handelsbanken, and Foundation for Research in West Sweden.   

I received my PhD in economics from Yale University in 2005.   I was an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Maryland, School of Public Policy from 2005 to 2009, and a Lecturer and Professor at Queen Mary University of London from 2010-2013.

Links: University of Gothenburg webpage, google scholar page.