Assistant Professor at the University of Oslo with a PhD. in economics from Göteborg University in 2011. My main research interests are family policies, The Nordic model, development issues, and inequality, often with a focus on gender. Causal effects of parental leave on adolescents household work. Joint work with Henning Finseraas.

Conflict and cohesion in Liberia. Housing discrimination in New York. Development Aid and Power Dynamics. Columbia Center for the Study of Development Strategies. This website is no longer active.

I completed my PhD in the Wilf Family Department of Politics. My work is primarily on statistical methodologies to improve causal inference. I focus on the confluence of machine learning and experimental design.

Problems with The Global Gender Gap Report. The GGGR is developed by the World Economic Forum. I will look at the most recent report from 2017. Since men are doing exceptionally bad on the healthy life expectancy variable in Rwand.

Assistant Professor of Applied Economics, University of Minnesota. I am an assistant professor in the Department of Applied Economics at the University of Minnesota. In my research, I use randomized experiments to gain insights into the functioning of health and labor markets in sub-Saharan Africa.

In 2014-2015 I was the Hayward R. Alker Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Center for International Studies, University of Southern California. In September 2014 from the Politics Department, New York University. In my dissertation, I analyze whether and how the political inclusion of disadvantaged minorities into local government affects patterns of Maoist violence in India.