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:
with Samsun Knight and Joshua Blumenstock
Revision requested (second round), Review of Economic Studies
with Joshua Blumenstock and Samsun Knight
Revision requested, American Economic Review
with Jun Ho Choi, Oliver Garrod, Paul Atherton, Andrew Joyce-Gibbons, and Miriam Mason-Sesay
NeurIPS Workshop on Generative AI for Education (2023)
Rolf, Simchowitz, Dean, Liu, Björkegren, Hardt, and Blumenstock
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) (2020)