My main areas of work
I use a wide selection of methods to study how best to structure public organisations and institutions. In my work, I have a special focus on, for instance, evaluation of reforms and interventions in day care and state-run schools aimed at pupils in risk of learning difficulties. Moreover, I carry out systematic research reviews with a focus on the education area and analyses of competition and the structure of user choice and payment systems in terms of quality and costs in the primary health sector.
Methods
I evaluate interventions and reforms using natural experiments and randomised controlled trials, and I carry out systematic research reviews, including meta-analyses. Furthermore, I carry out surveys on municipal budget processes and make game theory models of, for instance, communication and coordination in teams.
Background
I have a PhD and a master’s degree in Economics and a bachelor in Political Science from Lund University. Following my PhD in 2013, I continued working as a researcher at Department of Economics in Lund for a further year. I was employed by VIVE in 2014, where I have worked as a researcher and later a senior researcher in the areas of education, health and municipal economics. Both before and during my training to be a researcher, I was employed as a budget economist in Helsingborg Municipality. Here, I especially had tasks in budgeting, corporate governance and development of social, school and day care interventions.