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Ann-Sofie Isaksson

Researcher

Department of Economics
Telephone
+46 31-786 25 53
Mail
ann-sofie.isaksson@economics.gu.se

About Ann-Sofie Isaksson

I am a researcher in development economics, based at the Institute for Futures Studies and the University of Gothenburg (GU). My  research interests and empirical work cover a broad range of issues, including aid effectiveness, governance, institutional development, digital transformation, education, child health, inequality, gender, and African economic development more broadly.

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I serve as vice chair of the Association of Swedish Development Economists (ASWEDE).

Research areas

  • Development economics

  • Governance

  • Aid

  • African development

Teaching areas

  • Development Economics

  • Economics in practice

  • Thesis supervision

Selected publications

Foreign aid and teenage childbearing (2026) (with Congdon Fors, H., Durevall, D., and A. Lindskog), forthcoming in Population and Development Review.

Geospatial analys för kvantitativ effektutvärdering (2025), in Norén Bretzer, Y. and L. Lindgren (reds.) Utvärdering i en osäker tid: Komplexitet, problem och utveckling, Studentlitteratur.

Aid and child health: A disaggregated analysis of the effects of aid on impaired growth (2024) (with D. Durevall), World Development, 182(106689).

Changing local customs: The long run impacts of Christian missions on female genital cutting in Africa (2024) (with Congdon Fors, H., and A. Lindskog), Journal of Development Economics. Vol. 166(103180).

Aid and institutions (2023) (with D. Durevall)  Review of International Organizations, vol. 18, pp. 523–551.

Rapid and Rigorous Impact Evaluation: Advances in the Methods and Data Available for Timely and Cost-Efficient Evaluation (2021) Center for Global Development

Chinese aid and local ethnic identification (2020), International Organization, 74(4), pp. pp. 833-852.

Chinese aid and local corruption (2018) (with A. Kotsadam), Journal of Public Economics, vol. 159, pp. 146-159.

Racing to the bottom? Chinese development projects and trade union involvement in Africa (2018) (with A. Kotsadam), World Development, vol. 106, pp. 284-298.