Lena Edlund

Lena Cecilia Edlund (* 1967 ) is a Swedish economist and university professor .

Scientific career, research and teaching

Edlund studied at the Stockholm School of Commerce , where she received her Bachelor of Arts degree in 1989 and Ph.D. in 1996. graduated . After working as an expert on Women and Gender Equality at UNESCO from 1994 to 1995 , she went to the University of Michigan as visiting assistant professor after completing her studies . In 1997 she returned to Stockholm School of Commerce, but moved back to the United States in 1999 as an Assistant Professor at Columbia University . There she was promoted to associate professor in 2002 and has had a tenure track since 2009 . In 2010 she took on an associate professorship in the Faculty of Policy Analysis and Management at Cornell University .

Edlund's work focuses on gender economics, in particular examining the economic effects of marriages, prostitution and single parents on labor economics .

Between 2003 and 2010 Edlund was a Research Fellow at the Bonn Research Institute on the Future of Work , since 2010 she has been a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and since 2014 Research Affiliate at CESifo . She has been one of the editors of the Economica periodical since 2012, and on the editorial board of the Journal of Comparative Economics since 2013 .

Web links

• Homepage at Columbia University