Selaus tekijän mukaan kokoelmassa Vertaisarvioidut artikkelit (Peer-reviewed articles)
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Famine, Inequality, and Conflict
Journal of the European Economic Association : 4 (Oxford University Press, 11 / 2022)This paper employs newly-collected historical data from Finland to present evidence of historically contingent, long-run consequences of a famine. We document high levels of local inequality in terms of income and land ... -
Public Employees as Politicians: Evidence from Close Elections
American Political Science Review : 1 (Cambridge University Press, 2018)We analyze the effect of municipal employees’ political representation in municipal councils on local public spending. We use within-party, as-good-as-random variation in close elections in the Finnish open-list proportional ... -
Public Procurement versus Laissez-Faire: Evidence from Household Waste Collection
CESifo Economic Studies : 4 (Oxford University Press, 2019)We document that switching from laissez-faire production to public procurement in residential waste collection in Finland reduces the number of firms active in the local market, but induces a statistically significant and ... -
Rank effects in political promotions
Public Choice : 1-2 (Open access) (Springer Verlag, 2018)This paper studies the effect of candidates’ personal vote ranks on promotions to political power in an open list proportional representation system. Using a regression discontinuity design and data from Finnish local ... -
Victorian Voting: The Origins of Party Orientation and Class Alignment
American Journal of Political Science : 4 (Wiley, 2020)Much of what we know about the alignment of voters with parties comes from mass surveys of the electorate in the postwar period or from aggregate electoral data. Using individual elector‐level panel data from nineteenth‐century ... -
When does Regression Discontinuity Design Work? Evidence from Random Election Outcomes
Quantitative Economics :2 (Open access) (Econometric Society, 2018)We use elections data in which a large number of ties in vote counts between candidates are resolved via a lottery to study the personal incumbency advantage. We benchmark non-experimental RDD estimates against the estimate ...
