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Housing allowance and rents: Evidence from a stepwise subsidy scheme
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 2017-05-31)
This paper studies the effect of housing allowance on rents using discontinuities in the Finnish housing allowance system as a quasi-experimental setting. The stepwise dependence of housing allowance on the floor area of ...
The Effects of Relative School Starting Age on Educational Outcomes in Finland
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 2017-04-21)
In Finland, children start school during the calendar year they turn seven years old. This creates a discontinuous jump in school starting age. I utilize a regression discontinuity design and rich register data to study ...
Economic crises and unemployment persistence: Analysis of job losses during the Finnish 1990s recession
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 2017-11-20)
This study estimates the effect of job loss for Finnish workers displaced during a severe recession in the early 1990s. The setting provides a sample of workers of which over 90% experienced unemployment after losing a job ...
How do small firms respond to tax schedule discontinuities? Evidence from South African tax registers
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 2017-04-28)
We study the responsiveness of small and medium-sized firms to corporate income taxes using population-wide administrative data from South Africa. We find sizable bunching of firms at the corporate income thresholds where ...
Gender Specific Relative Age Effects in Politics and Football
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 2017-09-05)
The existence of a relative age effect (RAE) is well documented, i.e., those born early in the calendar year perform better at school and sports. We exploit a change in a selection period in youth football and regression ...
The local economic impacts of regeneration projects: Evidence from UK’s Single Regeneration Budget
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 2017-08-15)
We study the local economic impacts of a major regeneration programme aimed at enhancing the quality of life of local people in deprived neighbourhoods in the UK. The analysis is based on a panel of firm and area level ...
Firm Responses to an Interest Barrier: Empirical Evidence
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 2017-06-27)
This paper studies the effects of an interest barrier that was introduced in Finland to restrict the profit-shifting opportunities of multinational enterprises (MNEs). We employ full population data of Finnish, Swedish and ...
The effects of tax-deductible reserves on investment incentives
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 2017-08-18)
This paper investigates how tax-deductible reserves affect the incentive to invest. We consider two different variants: a periodization reserve (PER), which allows the firm to defer tax payments for a certain number of ...
Targeted Funding, Immigrant Background, and Educational Outcomes: Evidence from Helsinki's “Positive Discrimination” Policy
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 2017-08-18)
I estimate the impact of a targeted funding policy that provides disadvantaged schools in Helsinki with extra resources for hiring additional staff. Using a differences-in-differences strategy, I identify significant ...
Long-term effects of extended unemployment benefits for older workers
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 2017-05-31)
This paper examines the long-term effects of extended unemployment benefits that older unemployed can collect until retirement in Finland. We consider a reform that increased the age threshold of this scheme from 55 to 57 ...