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    • Effectiveness of Private and Public High Schools: Evidence from Finland 

      Kortelainen, Mika; Manninen, Kalle
      VATT Working Papers : 108 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 16.05.2018)
      A number of papers have compared the effectiveness of private and public schools in different institutional settings. However, most of these studies are observational and do not utilize experimental or quasi-experimental ...

    • The evolution of social mobility: Norway over the 20th century 

      Sarvimäki, Matti; Pekkarinen, Tuomas; Salvanes, Kjell G.
      VATT Working Papers : 76 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 17.06.2016)
      This paper documents trends in social mobility in Norway starting from fathers born at the turn of the 20th century and ending with sons born in the 1970s. We measure social mobility with intergenerational income elasticities, ...

    • Lost Boys: Access to Secondary Education and Crime 

      Huttunen, Kristiina; Pekkarinen, Tuomas; Uusitalo, Roope; Virtanen, Hanna
      VATT Working Papers : 114 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 31.12.2018)
      We study the effect of post-compulsory education on crime by exploiting a regression discontinuity design generated by admission cut-offs to upper secondary schools in Finland. We combine data on school applications with ...

    • Mixing the Rich and Poor: The Impact of Peers on Education and Earnings 

      Einiö, Elias
      VATT Working Papers : 128 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 18.12.2019)
      This study exploits a large-scale natural experiment in Finnish conscription to study how exposure to peers from different family backgrounds affects education, earnings, employment, and hourly wage. Our research design ...

    • School starting age, maternal age at birth, and child outcomes 

      Fredriksson, Peter; Huttunen, Kristiina; Öckert, Björn
      VATT Working Papers : 139 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 23.02.2021)
      This paper analyses the effects of maternal school starting age and maternal age-at-birth on children’s short and long-term outcomes using Finnish register data. We exploit a school-starting-age rule for identification. ...

    • Slipping through the Cracks of a Welfare State: Children of Immigrants in Finland 

      Sarvimäki, Matti; Ansala, Laura; Hämäläinen, Ulla
      VATT Working Papers : 72 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 22.03.2016)
      We document large differences in educational attainment, criminal sentences and use of psychotropic medication between the children of immigrants and natives living in Finland. Among the offspring of immigrants from the ...