I am a PhD Fellow in Economics at the University of Copenhagen, enrolled in the department’s 3+5 PhD program, with an expected completion in 2028. My research lies at the intersection of market design, public economics, and the economics of education. I study how families interact with complex allocation mechanisms and how institutional design and information environments shape access to public services and long-run opportunities.

One line of work examines school choice and the centralized assignment to upper-secondary education in Denmark. Together with collaborators and policy partners, I study how families navigate the hybrid Boston/DA admission mechanism, how misperceptions about admission chances and school quality arise, and how digital decision-support tools can lower information barriers. This work combines administrative data, survey evidence, and a large-scale field experiment that provides personalized guidance to families during the high-stakes school application process.

A second, solo-authored project develops a market-design framework for the provision and siting of public amenities. Using detailed usage data from Copenhagen’s public library network, I estimate heterogeneous demand for different types of amenities and quantify how alternative network configurations—such as relocating, expanding, or redesigning branches—affect welfare and distributional outcomes across neighborhoods.

Across these projects, I collaborate with researchers and public-sector partners to evaluate and design policies that promote equitable access to education and local public services. My work combines structural modeling, administrative data, and field experiments to generate evidence that can inform policy implementation at scale.

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Co-authors

I am fortunate to collaborate with these talented researchers on various projects:

Research Collaborations

I am fortunate to collaborate with the following public-sector partner:

  • National Agency for Education and Quality (Denmark)
    Ongoing collaboration linked to my research in the economics of education, including work with their administrative data at Statistics Denmark.

Awesome people I have worked with along the way

Here are some talented people I have worked with during my research visits in New Haven:

Office mates

Here are the (awesome) people that I share an office with in room 26.1.20:

And here are my other (awesome) fellow PhDs at the Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen: PhD students at the Department of Economics.

Mentors

Here are some of the people that inspired me from my time in the Ministry of Children and Education, National Agency for Education and Quality:

Fun facts about me

As you have made it all the way down to here, I thought I would give you a few fun facts to know about me:

  1. I am the two time club champion at Værløse Farum Cycling Club (proof: Værløse Farum Cycling Club club championship).
  2. I once finished top 10 in the Danish National U13 Cross-country Skiing Championship (I finished 6/6).
  3. I have the awesomest girlfriend – go check her out: Miriam Engel.