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.



Some recent 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
Artificial Intelligence for the Poor
Foreign Affairs (2023)
Media: The Economist, BBC World Service
What Do Policies Value?
with Samsun Knight and Joshua Blumenstock
Revision requested (second round), Review of Economic Studies
Manipulation-Robust Prediction
with Joshua Blumenstock and Samsun Knight
Revised and resubmitted, American Economic Review
Score-Based Classifiers for Welfare-Aware Machine Learning
Rolf, Simchowitz, Dean, Liu, Björkegren, Hardt, and Blumenstock
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) (2020)