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Fredrik Sävje
Department of Economics
Uppsala University
P.O. Box 513, SE-751 20
Uppsala, Sweden
+46 (0)73 939 76 01
[email protected]
http://fredriksavje.com
Current Position & Affiliations
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Economics, Uppsala University (ecd. 2015).
Affiliated Ph.D. Student, Uppsala Center for Labor Studies.
Education
2013–2014
Visiting Student Researcher, Department of Economics, UC Berkeley.
2013
Ph.Lic., Economics, Uppsala University.
2010
B.A., Economics & Political Science, Uppsala University.
Working Papers
On the Advantages of Threshold Blocking.
Improving Experiments by Optimal Blocking: Minimizing the Maximum Within-block Distance,
with Michael Higgins and Jasjeet Sekhon.
Defining and Identifying Incumbency Effects.
Revisiting the Educational Effects of Fetal Iodine Deficiency,
with Niklas Bengtsson and Stefan Peterson.
Works in Progress
A two-factor approximation algorithm for paired threshold blocking.
Semi-blocking: Cross block dependence to improve inference.
Or-Matching: Reducing extrapolation error in sparse samples,
with Jasjeet Sekhon.
Hypothesis testing with the Synthetic Control Method,
with Michihito Ando.
Health and Labor Supply: New Evidence from Epigenetic Imprinting,
with Alejandro del Valle.
The Get Out of Jail Card: The Effect of Political Office on Court Rulings,
with Sebastian Axbard.
Grants, Fellowships & Awards
Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, 2013–2015, SEK 2,595,000,
with Niklas Bengtsson, Eva Mörk and Jonas Poulsen.
The Jan Wallander and Tom Hedelius foundation, 2013–2014, SEK 321,000.
The Siamon foundation (Stiftelsen Siamon), 2013, conference grant.
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Presentations
2015
UK Causal Inference Meeting, University of Bristol, scheduled.
Department of Statistics, Uppsala University, scheduled.
2014
Department of Economics, Uppsala University.
Quantitative Methodology in the Social Sciences Seminar, UC Berkeley.
2013
7th Nordic Econometric Meeting, Norwegian School of Economics.
Department of Statistics, Umeå School of Business and Economics.
Uppsala Center for Labor Studies.
2012
Department of Economics, Uppsala University.
Teaching Experience
2015
Co-instructor, Economics of Development, Intermediate level, scheduled.
2012
Supervisor, B.A. thesis.
2011–2012
Teaching Assistant, Micro theory I, PhD level.
2011–2012
Teaching Assistant, Introductory Micro- and Macroeconomics, Basic level.
2011
Teaching Assistant, Micro theory with Applications, Intermediate level.
Research Experience
2014
Research Assistant for Jasjeet Sekhon, UC Berkeley.
Professional & University Service
Reviewer for Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization.
Member of the board, PhD Council for Social Sciences, 2011–2012.
Non-academic Experience
Co-founder, Random Works, 2014–present.
Co-founder and treasurer, Pareto Uppsala Economic Association, 2010–2011.
President, Uppsala Political Science Students, 2010.
Last updated February 5, 2015.