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I am a PhD Candidate in Economics at Uppsala Univeristy, with a special interest in the impact of AI and algorithmic decision making in the labor market. During the spring 2025 I am visiting Boston University and CREST Paris.

I will be on the 2025/2026 job market.

Work in Progress

Prediction versus Discretion: Human-AI Collaboration in Assignment of Unemployed Jobseekers [JMP] Can caseworkers improve upon algorithmic assignment of unemployed jobseekers to active labor market programs (ALMPs) at the Public Employment Service (PES)? This paper studies the impact of caseworker discretion over an algorithm that recommends assignment based on predicted reemployment probability. I set up a framework where ALMP assignment involves a trade-off between fairness (prediction) and efficiency (total employment). This trade-off introduces tension between the algorithm’s design and the broader policy objectives, creating potential scope for caseworkers to improve outcomes by incorporating private information or better aligning with policymaker goals. Leveraging as-if random assignment of jobseekers to caseworkers, I reconstruct the algorithmic counterfactual and evaluate outcomes along both fairness and efficiency dimensions. The results show that caseworkers reduce fairness, despite achieving above-random prediction accuracy. At the same time, their deviations do not improve employment outcomes. This suggests that while caseworkers may attempt to trade off fairness for efficiency, they lack the predictive skill to identify individual treatment effects of ALMPs - resulting in no gains in total employment.

Full draft available on request.

Monitoring, Benefit Sanctions and Employment Outcomes. Evidence from a Judge Design Joint with Johan Vikström, IFAU, and Arne Uhlendorff, CREST.

Major adjustments? How graduates from high school and college adjust to changes in labor demand Joint with Georg Graetz, Uppsala University, and Oskar Nordström Skans, Uppsala University.

Publications

Transparency, governance, and water and sanitation: Experimental evidence from schools in rural Bangladesh (2023) Journal of Development Economics. Joint with Umrbek Allakulov, Serena Cocciolo, Binayak Das, Md. Ahasan Habib, and Anna Tompsett.