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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 ...
Political representation and effects of municipal mergers
(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 ...
City-wide effects of new housing supply: Evidence from moving chains
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 2021-08-31)
We study the city-wide effects of new, centrally-located market-rate housing supply using geo-coded total population register data from the Helsinki Metropolitan Area. The supply of new market rate units triggers moving ...
Revisiting the effects of housing transfer taxes
(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 ...
Love Thy (Elected) Neighbor? Residential Segregation, Political Representation and Local Public Goods
(The University of Chicago Press, 2023-07)
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, ...
JUE insight: City-wide effects of new housing supply: Evidence from moving chains
(Elsevier, 2023-01-07)
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 ...