Welcome! 

I'm an Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics, University of Oslo. Prior to joining UiO, I was a postdoctoral scholar at the Center for Food Security and the Environment at Stanford University. My  interests are in development economics, economic geography and remote sensing. 

In my job market paper, I study how marketplaces in rural areas of low-income countries shape the development of their surroundings and how this age-old institution of rural trade interacts with policies to provide market access. 

In a second project, I use satellite imagery to track activity in rural marketplaces. This work has received $700,000 in research funding, enabling the first high-frequency, real-time measure of economic activity in remote rural areas at scale. 

Feel free to contact me under tillmanv[at]econ.uio.no

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