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    • The evolution of social mobility: Norway over the 20th century 

      Sarvimäki, Matti; Pekkarinen, Tuomas; Salvanes, Kjell G.
      VATT Working Papers : 76 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 17.06.2016)
      This paper documents trends in social mobility in Norway starting from fathers born at the turn of the 20th century and ending with sons born in the 1970s. We measure social mobility with intergenerational income elasticities, ...

    • Lost Boys: Access to Secondary Education and Crime 

      Huttunen, Kristiina; Pekkarinen, Tuomas; Uusitalo, Roope; Virtanen, Hanna
      VATT Working Papers : 114 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 31.12.2018)
      We study the effect of post-compulsory education on crime by exploiting a regression discontinuity design generated by admission cut-offs to upper secondary schools in Finland. We combine data on school applications with ...

    • School tracking and development of cognitive skills 

      Pekkarinen, Tuomas; Uusitalo, Roope; Kerr, Sari
      VATT Working Papers : 2 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 30.03.2009)
      The Finnish comprehensive school reform replaced the old two-track school system with a uniform nine-year comprehensive school and significantly reduced the degree of heterogeneity in the Finnish primary and secondary ...

    • The timing of puberty and gender differences in educational achievement 

      Koerselman, Kristian; Pekkarinen, Tuomas
      VATT Working Papers : 97 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 11.10.2017)
      In this paper, we study the effect of the timing of puberty on educational achievement and examine to what extent the gender differences in the timing of puberty can explain gender differences in achievement. We use British ...