Daniel Björkegren
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J-PAL Affiliated Professor
Assistant Professor of Economics
Brown University
Daniel Björkegren is an assistant professor of economics at Columbia University. He uses new sources of data to study the process of economic development, and his research interests include machine learning and digital data applied in developing economies. He has worked extensively with mobile phone data in Nigeria, Kenya, and Rwanda. He received his PhD in economics at Harvard University.