Curriculum Vitae

Jeffrey Clark

PhD student, Department of Economics, Stockholm University

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Education

  • 2024–
    PhD in Economics, Stockholm University
    Supervisor: Andreas Madestam
  • 2020–2023
    MSc in Economics, Stockholm School of Economics
    Thesis: Rural Road Improvements and Local Agricultural Intensification: A Remote Sensing Evaluation in Mozambique (with Tamina Matti).
  • 2020–2021
    MicroMaster in Data, Economics and Development Policy, MITx
    Certificate
    Causal inference, randomized evaluations, and program-evaluation methods.
  • 2015–2018
    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).

Visiting positions

  • Summer 2026
    Visiting Researcher, World Resources Institute (WRI) — Beijing

Research experience

  • 2023–2024
    Predoctoral Research Fellow, Stockholm University
    Aerial History Project. Stitched and georeferenced 1M+ historical aerial images via Docker + HPC pipelines.
  • 2022–2023
    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.
  • Also
    RA at Innovations for Poverty Action Stockholm School of Economics Ratio Institute

Publications

  • 2026
    autolabel: Automating variable and value labeling in Stata
    Jeffrey Clark, Jie Wen. Forthcoming, Stata Journal.

Software & open source

  • 2024–
    RegiStreamopen-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.
    registream.org

Talks & presentations

  • 2025
    ASWEDE 2025, Nääs, Sweden
    Community Land Reform and Property Disputes in Kenya.
  • 2024–
    RegiStream
    Presented at Statistics Sweden, Swedish National Audit Office, and Stockholm School of Economics.

Teaching & mentorship

  • 2025–
    MentorMSc students interested in development and labor economics. 3 to date; new cohort each year.

Press

Languages

  • English
    Native / Bilingual
  • Swedish
    Native / Bilingual
  • Russian
    Professional Working
  • Mandarin
    Intermediate