CV
Work:
2020-now: Economist / Senior Economist, Development Economics Data Group, World Bank, DC.
2018-2020: Young Professional, Poverty and Equity Global Practice, World Bank, DC.
2017-18: Consultant, Development Economics Research Group / Poverty & Inequality, World Bank, DC.
2016: Short-Term Consultant, Social Progress Imperative, DC.
2011-15: Teaching Assistant, Introductory and Intermediate Microeconomics, University of Copenhagen and Copenhagen Business School
2013-14: Research Assistant, Department of International Economy, Danish Ministry for Economic Affairs
2011: Research Assistant, Department for Global Economy and Cooperation, Danish Development Agency, Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Education:
2018: PhD Economics, University of Copenhagen. Dissertation title: "Measuring What Matters: Empirical Essays in Welfare Economics"
Visiting Fellow, Institute for Quantitative Social Sciences, Harvard University
2015: MSc Economics, University of Copenhagen
2015: MSc Political Science and Political Economy, London School of Economics
2013: BSc Economics, University of Copenhagen
Exchange Student, Yonsei University, South Korea
Visiting Student, Haifa University, Israel
Publications:
Ending extreme poverty has a negligible impact on global greenhouse gas emissions (w. Philip Wollburg & Stephane Hallegatte), Nature, 2023.
Intergenerational Mobility around the World: A New Database (w. Roy van der Weide, Christoph Lakner, Ambar Narayan, & Rakesh Ramasubbaiah), Journal of Development Economics, 2023.
What Makes Public Sector Data Valuable for Development? (w. Dean Jolliffe, Malar Veerappan, Talip Kilic, and Philip Wollburg), World Bank Research Observer, 2023.
The Roots of Inequality: Estimating Inequality of Opportunity from Regression Trees and Forests (w. Paolo Brunori & Paul Hufe), Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2023.
Free to Choose or Free to Lose? Understanding Individual Attitudes towards Paternalism? (w. David Lassen), Behavioral Public Policy, 2022.
Nowcasting Global Poverty (w. Andres Castaneda and David Newhouse), World Bank Economic Review, 2022.
How Much Does Reducing Inequality Matter for Global Poverty? (w. Christoph Lakner, Mario Negre & Espen Prydz), Journal of Economic Inequality, 2022.
Death and Destitution: The Global Distribution of Welfare Losses from the COVID-19 Pandemic (w. Benoit Decerf, Francisco Ferreira, and Olivier Sterck), LSE Public Policy Review, 2021.
Lives and Livelihoods: Estimates of the Global Mortality and Poverty Effects of the Covid-19 Pandemic (w. Benoit Decerf, Francisco Ferreira, and Olivier Sterck), World Development, 2021.
Equality of Opportunity in Four Measures of Well-Being (w. Xavi Ramos), Review of Income and Wealth, 2019.
Working Papers:
The Impact of COVID-19 on Global Inequality and Poverty (w. Nishant Yonzan and Christoph Lakner)
Assessing the Impact of the 2017 PPPs on the International Poverty Line and Global Poverty (w. Dean Jolliffe, Christoph Lakner, Aziz Atamanov, Samuel Kofi Tetteh Baah)
Reports:
Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals 2023 (w. several co-authors).
World Development Report 2021: Data for Better Lives (w. several co-authors).
Lesotho Poverty Assessment: Progress and Challenges in Reducing Poverty (w. Victor Sulla and Precious Zikhali)
Fragile and Conflict-Affected States: On the Frontlines of the Fight Against Poverty (w. Paul Corral, Alexander Irwin, Nandini Krishnan, and Tara Vishwanath)
Poverty and Shared Prosperity 2018: Piecing Together the Poverty Puzzle (w. several co-authors)
Fair Progress? Educational Mobility around the World (w. Alexandru Cojacaru, Rakesh Gupta, Christoph Lakner, Ambar Narayan, Silvia Redaelli, Stefan Thewissen & Roy Van der Weide).