Research

Job Market Paper

Digging for Trouble? Mining and Criminal Behavior of Young Males

Job Market Paper. I exploit the 2004 iron ore boom in northern Sweden to study how a large, positive local economic shock affects the criminal behavior of young males. Property crime convictions fell by 52% while substance-related convictions rose by 181%, showing that a boom can reduce crime while shifting part of it toward substance-related offending.

Published & Forthcoming

Diffusion of Economic Shocks in the Labor Market: Evidence from a Mining Boom

Published in Labour Economics, 100, 102879. 2026. Joint with Jonna Rickardsson (Jönköping International Business School).

Socioeconomic Well-Being in the Face of Commodity Price Shocks: Evidence from Chile

Published in The Journal of Development Studies, 61(7), 1081–1109. 2025.

The Disruptive Long-Term Costs of International Migration on Subjective Well-Being

Published in Journal of Happiness Studies, 26(6), 88. 2025. Joint with Leonidas Hernandez (Universidad Católica del Norte), Diana Romero-Espinosa (Universidad Tecnológica de Bolívar), and Francisco Rowe (University of Liverpool).

Working Papers

Investment Freedom: Mining for (Critical) Raw Minerals in Developing Countries

Working paper. Stage: Revise & Resubmit, Resource and Energy Economics. Joint with Steven Poelhekke (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and CEPR).

Local Economic Shocks and Entrepreneurship Dynamics

Working paper. Stage: Revise & Resubmit, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. Joint with Orsa Kekezi (Swedish Institute for Social Research, SOFI).

The Duality of Competition Networks in International Pricing Power

Working paper. Stage: Revise & Resubmit (Round 2), Journal of International Marketing. Joint with Luis Miguel Bolivar (EAFIT University) and Miguel Gómez (Cornell University).

Work in Progress

The Impact of Economic Opportunity on Fertility and Family Formation
Perception Over Incidence? Crime, Fear, and Self-Assessed Health in Urban Chile (with Carlo Caporali, Benjamin Jara, and Ariel Arcos)
Class Background and Career Progression Among University Graduates (with Paul Nystedt)
Misperceived Norms and Forest Conservation (with Anna Nordén, Jana Schuetz, and Ana Vignolo)

Other Publications

Pre-PhD Publications

Peer-reviewed publications and book chapters from before the PhD (2020–2024), covering labor economics, regional economics, and development economics in Latin America.