Selaus asiasanan mukaan kokoelmassa Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT

    • Do Second Chances Pay Off? Evidence from a Natural Experiment with Low-Achieving Students 

      Bizopoulou, Aspasia; Megalokonomou, Rigissa; Simion, Stefania
      IZA Discussion Papers : 15139 (IZA Institute of Labor Economics, 03 / 2022)
      In several countries, students who fail end-of-high-school high-stakes exams are faced with the choice of retaking them or forgoing postsecondary education. We explore exogenous variation generated by a 2006 policy that ...
    • Does admission to elite engineering school make a difference? 

      Kuuppelomäki, Tiina; Kortelainen, Mika; Suhonen, Tuomo; Virtanen, Hanna
      VATT Working Papers : 127 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 31.10.2019)
      This paper explores the effects of university quality in STEM education by examining the consequences of admission to Finland’s most competitive engineering school for students' performance in their studies and the labor ...
    • Neighbors' Effects on University Enrollment 

      Barrios-Fernández, Andrés
      American Economic Journal: Applied Economics : 3 (American Economic Association, 2022)
      This paper combines detailed geographic information and individual educational records in Chile to provide causal evidence that close neighbors significantly influence enrollment in university. I exploit the quasi-random ...
    • Post-secondary education and information on labor market prospects: A randomized field experiment 

      Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Pekkarinen, Tuomas; Sarvimäki, Matti; Uusitalo, Roope
      Labour Economics (Elsevier, 2020)
      We examine the impact of an information intervention offered to 97 randomly chosen high schools on post-secondary education applications and enrollment in Finland. Graduating students in treatment schools were surveyed and ...
    • The intergenerational effects of parental higher education: Evidence from changes in university accessibility 

      Suhonen, Tuomo; Karhunen, Hannu
      VATT Working Papers : 100 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 08.12.2017)
      We examine the causal effect of parental higher education on their offspring’s education, using quasi-experimental variation from the significant regional convergence in parents’ access to university occurring in Finland ...
    • The Short- and Long-Term Effects of Graduating During a Recession: Evidence from Finland 

      Päällysaho, Miika Matias
      VATT Working Papers : 96 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 05.10.2017)
      This paper uses matched employer-employee panel data on university graduates who obtained a Master’s degree in 1988–2004 to study how facing adverse economic conditions upon graduation affects short- and long-term labor ...
    • Todistusvalintahankkeen loppuraportti 

      Hakanen, Mila; Kalmbach, Aino; Kuuppelomäki, Tiina; Lauronen, Tina; Suhonen, Tuomo; Virkola, Tuomo
      VATT Muistiot : 70 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 21.06.2023)
      Yliopistojen ja korkeakoulujen opiskelijavalinta on käynyt läpi merkittäviä muutoksia viime vuosina. Näistä muutoksista ehkä merkittävin oli vuonna 2020 toteutettu opiskelijavalintauudistus, joka lisäsi suoraan todistusvalinnalla ...