Curriculum Vitae
Jeffrey Clark
PhD student, Department of Economics, Stockholm University
github.com/jeffrey-clark jeffreyclark.se Stockholm, Sweden
Education
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PhD in Economics, Stockholm University
Supervisor: Andreas Madestam -
MSc in Economics, Stockholm School of Economics
Thesis: Rural Road Improvements and Local Agricultural Intensification: A Remote Sensing Evaluation in Mozambique (with Tamina Matti). Thesis PDF -
Causal inference, randomized evaluations, and program-evaluation methods.MicroMaster in Data, Economics and Development Policy, MITxCertificate
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BSc in Business and Economics, Stockholm School of Economics
Thesis: Exogenous Change in the Regeneration of a Common Pool Resource and its Effect on Cooperation and Efficiency (with Marcus Lindeberg-Goni). Thesis PDF
Visiting positions
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Visiting Researcher, World Resources Institute (WRI) — Beijing
Economic analysis for WRI China's Energy Policy Simulator, the model behind its 2060 decarbonization pathway. Rebuilt the China input-output pipeline and ported the model from Vensim to Python.
Research experience
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Predoctoral Research Fellow, Stockholm University
Aerial History Project. Stitched and georeferenced 1M+ historical aerial images via Docker + HPC pipelines. -
Predoctoral Research Assistant, Swedish House of Finance
With Marieke Bos. Swedish register data; projects on mergers and employee mental health, and long-run effects of mental illness diagnoses. -
RA at Innovations for Poverty Action Stockholm School of Economics Ratio Institute
Publications
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autolabel: Automating variable and value labeling in Stata
Jeffrey Clark, Jie Wen. Forthcoming, Stata Journal.
Large-scale metadata infrastructure for agencies; documents a new Stata coding pattern, deferred execution.
Software & open source
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RegiStream, registream.org
Open-source infrastructure layer between register data and research. A multilingual metadata catalog and two companion tools (autolabel,datamirror), used by researchers and government agencies across the Nordics.
Talks & presentations
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Northern European Stata Conference, Oslo
datamirror: coefficient-preserving synthetic data for restricted microdata. 24 September 2026. -
ASWEDE 2025, Nääs, Sweden
Community Land Reform and Property Disputes in Kenya. -
RegiStream
Presented at Statistics Sweden, Swedish National Audit Office, and Stockholm School of Economics.
Summer schools
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Summer School in International and Development Economics, Gargonza
25th edition, Centro Studi Luca d'Agliano. Economic Development in the Age of Big Data and AI, with Samuel Asher and Paul Novosad. 1–4 September 2026.
Teaching & mentorship
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Mentor
MSc students interested in development and labor economics. 3 to date; new cohort each year.
Press
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PhD students build open infrastructure for register-data research
Stockholm University Department of Economics
Languages
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EnglishNative / Bilingual -
SwedishNative / Bilingual -
RussianProfessional Working -
MandarinIntermediate
Abstract · Forthcoming, Stata Journal
autolabel: Automating variable and value labeling in Stata
Register-based datasets from national statistical agencies arrive with cryptic variable names, unlabeled coded values, and documentation that lives separately from the data, often only in the national language. The autolabel command automates variable and value labeling by matching dataset variables to centralized, multilingual CSV metadata repositories and applying labels in a single call. A deferred execution pattern writes labeling commands to a temporary do-file during dataset inspection and applies them after the original state is restored, letting a single user-level command both inspect and apply. The domain-agnostic CSV schema lets any institution author its own metadata bundle.