What I do

My research primarily focuses on public goods: both on estimating the impacts of public goods on human development, and understanding the political processes that influence public good provision. I use natural and field experiments to measure the impacts of public goods and to understand how best to provide them.

Originally trained as a civil and environmental engineer, I have a particular interest in infrastructure.

Short bio

Anna is a Researcher at the Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics, an Affiliated Researcher at the Institute for International Economic Studies, and an Assistant Professor in the Economics Department at Stockholm University. She received her Ph.D. in Sustainable Development from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University.

She also obtained a first class M.Eng. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Imperial College London and the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, and completed an M.Phil. in Engineering for Sustainable Development at the University of Cambridge.

She has worked or studied in the UK, the US, France, Spain, Sweden, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Kenya, Mali, Nigeria, Uganda, Zambia, and Bangladesh.