Adam is a Researcher at the Institute for Evaluation of Labor Market
and Education Policy (IFAU) in Uppsala (since 2026). He earned all of
his degrees at the Stockholm School of Economics — BSc Business and
Economics (2012), MSc Economics (2016), PhD Economics (2018, under
Tore Ellingsen) — with visiting time at Stanford and Harvard during
his graduate work, and was previously at SOFI / Stockholm University
and a Wallander Postdoctoral Fellow at SSE Finance. His research
focuses on the economics of education, sibling spillovers, and the
cross-country comparability of higher-education systems, plus work on
social-science replicability and COVID-19 policy. He and Christopher
are coauthors on the QJE study of
sibling spillovers in college and major choice across four
countries and on the multi-country
STEM gender gap study.
