About
I am a PhD student in Economics at Linköping University, based at the Institute for Analytical Sociology (IAS) in Norrköping. I am also an affiliated researcher at the Center of Educational Leadership and Excellence (CELE) at the Stockholm School of Economics, where my main supervisor is Professor Karl Wennberg.
My research sits at the intersection of economics of education and teacher economics. I study how schools, teachers, and policies shape student and teacher outcomes — with a particular focus on the Swedish context and using administrative register data.
In early 2026 I was a visiting PhD student at the London School of Economics (Department of Geography and Environment), hosted by Professor Olmo Silva.
Research
Hidden Costs of Teaching? The Effect of Student Teaching Placements on Teacher Career Development (Job Market Paper)
Axel Norgren
This project studies how the placement of student teachers affects their probability of completing teacher education, obtaining employment post-graduation, and the type of school they begin their career in. Using Swedish administrative registers, I explore whether placement schools shape both selection into and outcomes within the teaching profession.
Deciphering the Reading Puzzle: Teacher Value Added across Reading Subskills
Axel Norgren
This project disentangles teacher contributions to different components of reading ability. Using student-level data from the Swedish educational technology platform LegiLexi, I apply value-added models to estimate teacher effectiveness for overall reading comprehension as well as its subcomponents — decoding, vocabulary, and listening comprehension. The findings reveal that teachers are substantially more consequential for decoding abilities than for language comprehension, and that teachers who are effective at improving decoding are largely distinct from those who improve vocabulary and listening.