Selaus tekijän mukaan kokoelmassa Vertaisarvioidut artikkelit (Peer-reviewed articles)

    • Best Education Money Can Buy? Capitalization of School Quality in Finland 

      Harjunen, Oskari; Kortelainen, Mika; Saarimaa, Tuukka
      CESifo Economic Studies : 2 (Oxford University Press, 2018)
      By international comparison, Finnish pupil achievement is high and school achievement differences small. The Finnish education system is unusual also because there are no national testing programmes, and information on ...
    • JUE insight: City-wide effects of new housing supply: Evidence from moving chains 

      Bratu, Cristina; Harjunen, Oskari; Saarimaa, Tuukka
      Journal of Urban Economics : Available online (Open access) (Elsevier, 07.01.2023)
      We study the city-wide effects of new, centrally-located market-rate housing supply using geo-coded population-wide register data from the Helsinki Metropolitan Area. The supply of new market rate units triggers moving ...
    • Love Thy (Elected) Neighbor? Residential Segregation, Political Representation and Local Public Goods 

      Harjunen, Oskari; Saarimaa, Tuukka; Tukiainen, Janne
      Journal of Politics : 3 (The University of Chicago Press, 07 / 2023)
      We study geographic political representation and geographic distribution of local public goods within local jurisdictions with at-large proportional representation elections. We use detailed geo-coded data on politicians, ...
    • Political representation and effects of municipal mergers 

      Harjunen, Oskari; Saarimaa, Tuukka; Tukiainen, Janne
      Political Science Research and Methods : Available online (Cambridge University Press, 2021)
      We study the effects of municipal mergers using novel geocoded data on local public sector jobs and local politicians' place of residence. We find that the mergers had no effects on municipal expenditures overall after ...
    • Revisiting the effects of housing transfer taxes 

      Eerola, Essi; Harjunen, Oskari; Lyytikäinen, Teemu; Saarimaa, Tuukka
      Journal of Urban Economics : Open Access (Elsevier, 2021)
      Housing transfer taxes are fiscally important in many countries despite evidence of substantial welfare costs. We argue that the welfare costs are larger than previously thought because previous studies ignore spillovers ...