I am an Associate Professor in Economics and Social Data Science at University of Copenhagen. The majority of my research focuses on education related behavior and policies, using methods from economics and data science. Some areas of within education is school choice, use of digital technology, prediction tools for intervention as well as peer effects/social interactions. Other research topics include using tools from econometrics and data science to investigate human behavior more broadly.
I supervise students in the core areas of my research and teach courses at the intersection of econometrics and data science. I served as Head of Studies for MSc Social Data Science from 2019-2021.
PhD in Economics, 2016
University of Copenhagen
What is the efficacy of redrawing school attendance boundaries as a desegregation policy? To provide causal evidence on this question we employ novel data with unprecedented detail on the universe of Danish children and exploit changes in attendance boundaries over time. Households defy reassignments to schools with lower socioeconomic status. There is a strong social gradient in defiance, as resourceful households are more sensitive to the student composition of schools. We simulate reassignments and find that boundary changes are ineffective in altering the socioeconomic composition of disadvantaged schools in highly segregated areas.