I work on machine learning and digital data, applied in low income economies.

I am Assistant Professor of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. I lead the AI and Development initiative at CDEP, am an affiliate of BREAD and J-PAL, and a member of the Data Science Institute. I have a PhD in economics from Harvard University.
My contact is dan[@]bjorkegren[.]com and office is IAB 1401B.



Selected writing:
Could AI Leapfrog the Web? Evidence from Teachers in Sierra Leone
with Jun Ho Choi, Divya Budihal, Dominic Sobhani, Oliver Garrod, and Paul Atherton
Media: Development Impact
Artificial Intelligence for the Poor
Foreign Affairs (2023)
Media: The Economist, BBC World Service
What Do Policies Value?
with Samsun Knight and Joshua Blumenstock
Accepted, Review of Economic Studies
Manipulation-Robust Prediction
with Joshua Blumenstock and Samsun Knight
Revision requested (third round), American Economic Review
Public and Private Transit: Evidence from Lagos
with Alice Duhaut, Geetika Nagpal, and Nick Tsivanidis
Revision requested, American Economic Review
Causal Inference from Hypothetical Evaluations
with B. Douglas Bernheim, Jeffrey Naecker, and Michael Pollmann
Rejected with an invitation to resubmit, Journal of Political Economy
The Adoption of Network Goods: Evidence from the Spread of Mobile Phones in Rwanda
Review of Economic Studies (2019)
Score-Based Classifiers for Welfare-Aware Machine Learning
Rolf, Simchowitz, Dean, Liu, Björkegren, Hardt, and Blumenstock
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) (2020)