Kerstin Enflo

Kerstin Enflo is a Professor at the Department of Economic History, Lund University. Her research focuses on long-run regional growth and inequality, utilizing historical infrastructure investments (railroads, electricity) as case studies. She has constructed regional GDP per capita data dating to the 16th century.

• Contributes to UN Sustainable Development Goals on inequality and sustainable cities.
• Active in projects like Early modern inequality through machine-read wealth registers (Swedish Research Council, 2025-2029).

Her work spans economic history, historical economic geography, and technological change. Recent research includes analyses of wealth inequality in early modern Sweden and migration's impact on regional development.

Scientific contributions appear in journals like American Economic Journal: Applied Economics and Arbetarhistoria. She supervises PhD candidates (e.g., Jayes J.) and collaborates on initiatives like the Swedish Labour Mobility Lab (2021-2027).