SWECOV

The Covid-19 pandemic has profoundly impacted societies in ways we are only beginning to understand. I was part of the secretariat of Coronakommissionen, the Swedish corona commission, tasked by the government to evaluate the Swedish response. The Commission released its final report in February 2022, but together with Prof. Torsten Persson and Olof Östergren, I have initiated a large, 4-year, research program to continue our studies of the topic. More information about the Swedish Register-based Research Program on COVID-19 can be found on swecov.se.

College Choice

Good students tend to pick good schools. This selection mechanism makes it incredibly hard to estimate what effect education actually has. That graduates from some programs earn more could be because their skills improved more in school (a causal effect of education), but it could also be because they were more talented to start with (selection). In this research program I use statistical techniques to properly estimate the component that is causal.

Reproducibility

In a series of papers, we replicate lab experiments in the social sciences. We also study how accurately replicability can be predicted, by peer scientists in prediction markets, and also by machine learning algorithms.