Personal profile

Research

I’m a doctoral student working with Scandinavian economic history. I started my studies at Lund University in 2020 after completing a master's degree in economics at the University of Southern Denmark. My research interests include:

  • long-term economic growth and development
  • technical change, productivity and its origins
  • human capital (for example, skills and education)
  • social mobility and inequality.

I’m attached to a research project on human capital acquisition across Denmark, Norway and Sweden during the period 1800-1940. The project uses individual-level records to track the background, education and work experience of students to better understand changes in employers’ demands for worker skills during a period of significant economic development.

Teaching

I am passionate about education, and enjoy the chance to teach and advise students. My current teaching assignments at Lund University include:

  • Environmental history from an economic perspective (Miljöhistoria ur ett ekonomiskt perspektiv)
  • Human capital in a historical perspective
  • Research design, methods and data collection

I also deliver econometrics labs for master’s students, helping them to think through challenges associated with empirical studies in their thesis projects.

UKÄ subject classification

  • Economic History
  • Economics

Free keywords

  • Economic History
  • Macroeconomics
  • Economic Growth
  • Productivity
  • Human Capital

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