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    • Are there returns from university location in a state-funded university system? 

      Suhonen, Tuomo
      Regional Science and Urban Economics : 3 (Elsevier, 2013)
      A location in an economically active, high-amenity region could in many ways be a significant advantage for a university and its students and thus could also be positively linked to students' subsequent earnings. Based on ...

    • 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 ...

    • Effect of Secondary Education on Cognitive and Non-cognitive Skills 

      Ollikainen, Jani-Petteri; Pekkarinen, Tuomas; Uusitalo, Roope; Virtanen, Hanna
      IZA Discussion Papers : 15318 (IZA Institute of Labor Economics, 05 / 2022)
      We exploit admission cutoffs to secondary schools to study the effects of general academically oriented, versus vocational secondary schooling on cognitive and non-cognitive skills using a regression discontinuity design. ...

    • 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 ...

    • Eliittilukioiden vaikutukset ylioppilaskirjoitusten tuloksiin 

      Tervonen, Lassi; Kortelainen, Mika; Kanninen, Ohto
      VATT Tutkimukset : 186 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 19.05.2017)
      Tutkimuksessa selvitetään minkälaisia vaikutuksia eliittilukioon pääsyllä ja siellä opiskelulla on ylioppilaskirjoitusten tuloksiin. Analyysi keskittyy viiteen pääkaupunkiseudun lukioon, joiden yleislinjojen keskiarvorajat ...

    • Information Integration, Coordination Failures, and Quality of Prescribing 

      Böckerman, Petri; Laine, Liisa T.; Nurminen, Mikko; Saxell, Tanja
      Journal of Human Resources : 2, Open Access (University of Wisconsin Press, 01.03.2024)
      Poor information flows hamper coordination, potentially leading to suboptimal decisions in health care. We examine the effects of a large-scale policy of health information integration. We use the staggered adoption of a ...

    • Job Tasks and Gender Wage Gaps within Occupations 

      Bizopoulou, Aspasia
      VATT Working Papers : 124 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 09.10.2019)
      I provide evidence that task use at work by men and women in the same occupations is significantly different. The observed difference can account for the within-occupational gender-wage gap that is prevalent in many developed ...

    • Long-Run Effects of Selective Schools on Educational and Labor Market Outcomes 

      Kanninen, Ohto; Kortelainen, Mika; Tervonen, Lassi
      VATT Working Papers : 161 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 13.12.2023)
      This paper analyzes the effects of selective schools on students’ educational and labor market outcomes. We utilize regression discontinuity design based on the centralized admission system of upper secondary schools in ...

    • 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 ...

    • 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 ...

    • Quality of higher education and earnings: evidence from Finland using field-of-study-level quality measures 

      Suhonen, Tuomo
      International Review of Applied Economics : 1 (Taylor & Francis, 2014)
      Using administrative data from Finland, this paper empirically examines the relationship between university graduates’ early career earnings and three measures of university quality: the number of teachers per student, the ...

    • Relative age effects in political selection 

      Tukiainen, Janne; Takalo, Tuomas; Hulkkonen, Topi
      European Journal of Political Economy (Elsevier, 2019)
      We exploit a regression discontinuity design to provide causal evidence of the relative age effect (RAE) on a long-run adult age outcome: Political selection. We find strong evidence of the RAE in politics in Finland. ...

    • Stairway to Heaven? Selection into Entrepreneurship, Income Mobility and Firm Performance 

      Harju, Jarkko; Juuti, Toni; Matikka, Tuomas
      FIT Working Paper : 17 (Tampereen yliopisto, 20.12.2023)
      Using detailed full-population data from Finland, we provide evidence on selection into entrepreneurship and the dynamic implications of establishing a new business. Individuals at the very top of the personal income ...

    • Wage and Employment Discrimination by Gender in Labor Market Equilibrium 

      Xiao, Pengpeng
      VATT Working Papers : 144 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 28.05.2021)
      This paper develops an equilibrium search model to study the mechanisms underlying the lifecycle gender wage gap: human capital accumulation, preference for job amenities, and employers’ statistical discrimination in wage ...