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PARAS-hankkeen aikana toteutettujen kuntaliitosten vaikutukset
(Taloustieteellinen yhdistys, 2018-06-05)
Matti Vanhasen hallitus käynnisti keväällä 2006 PARAS-hankkeena tunnetun kunta- ja palvelurakenteen uudistuksen. Hankkeen tavoitteena oli luoda kuntapalvelujen järjestämiselle ja tuottamiselle vahva taloudellinen perusta. ...
Effects of municipal mergers on voter turnout
(Taylor & Francis, 2018)
We study the effects of municipal mergers on voter turnout in a difference-in-differences framework, using data from a wave of municipal mergers in Finland in 2009. Analysing two pre-merger elections and three post-merger ...
Public Employees as Politicians: Evidence from Close Elections
(Cambridge University Press, 2018)
We analyze the effect of municipal employees’ political representation in municipal councils on local public spending. We use within-party, as-good-as-random variation in close elections in the Finnish open-list proportional ...
When does Regression Discontinuity Design Work? Evidence from Random Election Outcomes
(Econometric Society, 2018)
We use elections data in which a large number of ties in vote counts between candidates are resolved via a lottery to study the personal incumbency advantage. We benchmark non-experimental RDD estimates against the estimate ...
Effects of Municipal Mergers on Voter Turnout
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 2018-03-28)
We study the effects of municipal mergers on voter turnout in a difference-in-differences framework, using data from a wave of municipal mergers in Finland in 2009. Analysing two pre-merger elections and three post-merger ...