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

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    • Cognitive consequences of the timing of puberty 

      Koerselman, Kristian; Pekkarinen, Tuomas
      Labour Economics (Elsevier, 2018)
      In this paper, we use British cohort data to study the degree to which children at different stages of pubertal development at age 11 and 16 differ in their cognitive and behavioral outcomes at age 16 as well as in their ...

    • Gender differences in behaviour under competitive pressure: Evidence on omission patterns in university entrance examinations 

      Pekkarinen, Tuomas
      Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (Elsevier, 2015)
      This paper studies gender differences in performance in university entrance examinations. We exploit data from the exams that the Finnish universities that provide education in economics and business use to choose their ...

    • Lost boys? Secondary education and crime 

      Huttunen, Kristiina; Pekkarinen, Tuomas; Uusitalo, Roope; Virtanen, Hanna
      Journal of Public Economics : Available online (Open access) (Elsevier, 02.01.2023)
      We study the effect of secondary education on criminal behavior of young men in Finland. We exploit admission cut-offs in over-subscribed programs and estimate the effect of gaining access to a) any secondary school vs no ...

    • 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 ...

    • Secular rise in economically valuable personality traits 

      Jokela, Markus; Pekkarinen, Tuomas; Sarvimäki, Matti; Terviö, Marko; Uusitalo, Roope
      Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences : 25 (National Academy of Sciences, 2017)
      Although trends in many physical characteristics and cognitive capabilities of modern humans are well-documented, less is known about how personality traits have evolved over time. We analyze data from a standardized ...

    • The Evolution of Social Mobility: Norway during the Twentieth Century 

      Pekkarinen, Tuomas; Salvanes, Kjell G.; Sarvimäki, Matti
      The Scandinavian Journal of Economics : 1 (Wiley, 2017)
      We document trends in social mobility in Norway using intergenerational income elasticities, the associations between the income percentiles of fathers and sons, and brother correlations. The results of all approaches ...