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Public Employees as Politicians: Evidence from Close Elections
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2016-09-27)
We analyze the effect of municipal employees' political representation in municipal councils on local public spending. To quantify the effect, we use within-party, as-good-as random variation in close elections in the ...
Seat competitiveness and redistricting: Evidence from voting on municipal mergers
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2013-03-24)
We analyze how (anticipated) changes in the competitiveness of the seats of municipal councilors affect their voting behavior over municipal mergers. The competitiveness of the seats changes because the merger changes the ...
Local Representation and Strategic Voting: Evidence from Electoral Boundary Reforms
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2015-09-11)
We analyze whether voters value local political representation by exploiting municipal mergers, which increase the number of candidates available to voters and intensify political competition. In the Finnish open-list ...
Do homeowners benefit urban neighborhoods? Evidence from housing prices
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2012-09-03)
Homeownership is heavily subsidized in many countries mainly through the tax code. The adverse effects of lenient tax treatment of owner-occupied housing on economic efficiency and growth are large and well documented in ...
The Incidence of Housing Allowances: Quasi-Experimental Evidence
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 2022-10-13)
This paper studies the effects of housing allowances on rents. Our research design is based on a reform that made the allowance more generous for small housing units as a quasi-experimental setting. We find that large ...
Common Pool Problems in Voluntary Municipal Mergers
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2013-12-27)
We analyze free-riding behavior by Finnish municipalities prior to municipal mergers. The merger process creates a temporary common pool problem, which arises because of a delay from the initial merger decision to the ...
Best Education Money Can Buy? Capitalization of School Quality in Finland
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2014-12-05)
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 programs and information on school ...
Political Representation and Effects of Municipal Mergers
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 2017-10-18)
We study the effects of municipal mergers using novel geocoded data on public sector jobs, housing transactions and local politicians’ place of residence. We find that total municipal expenditures evolve in the same way ...
Does Regression Discontinuity Design Work? Evidence from Random Election Outcomes
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2015-09-21)
We use elections data in which a large number of ties in vote counts between
candidates are resolved via lottery. We benchmark non-experimental RDD estimates
of personal incumbency advantage against the estimate produced ...
Who Benefits from Public Housing?
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2015-12-17)
This paper studies how much public housing generates rent savings for the tenants, how these savings are distributed among the tenants, and whether the tenants reside in better quality neighborhoods than similar low-income ...