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Electoral Institutions and Intraparty Cohesion
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 2018-07-12)
We study parties' optimal ideological cohesion across electoral rules, when the following trade-off is present: A more heterogenous set of candidates is electorally appealing (catch-all party), yet, it serves policy-related ...
Relative age effects in political selection
(Elsevier, 2019)
We exploit a regression discontinuity design to provide causal evidence of the relative age effect (RAE) on a long-run adult age outcome: Political selection. We find strong evidence of the RAE in politics in Finland. ...
Gender Specific Relative Age Effects in Politics and Football
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 2017-09-05)
The existence of a relative age effect (RAE) is well documented, i.e., those born early in the calendar year perform better at school and sports. We exploit a change in a selection period in youth football and regression ...
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 ...
Public Procurement versus Laissez-Faire: Evidence from Household Waste Collection
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 2018-12-20)
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 ...
Effects of Municipal Mergers on Voter Turnout
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 2018-03-28)
We study the effects of municipal mergers on voter turnout in a difference-in-differences framework, using data from a wave of municipal mergers in Finland in 2009. Analysing two pre-merger elections and three post-merger ...
Anatomy of public procurement
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 2019-04-11)
We provide novel stylized facts about competition, bidding, entry and bidders across a wide spectrum of public procurement auctions using comprehensive and rich Finnish data. Competition for publicly procured contracts is ...
What Are the Priorities of Bureaucrats? Evidence from Conjoint Experiments with Procurement Officials.
(ifo Institute, 2021-03-31)
A well-functioning bureaucracy is a precondition for efficient public goods provision. However, bureaucratic decision-making is still largely seen as a black box. We provide novel insights into the preferences of bureaucrats ...
Arvioita kuntien käyttötalouden kannustinjärjestelmistäUtvärderingar om kommunernas finansieringsincitamentEvaluation of incentive models for municipal finance
(Valtioneuvoston kanslia, 2018-06-29)
Hallituksen linjausten mukaisesti kuntien tehtävistä ja velvoitteista on tarkoitus löytää säästöjä noin miljardin euron edestä. Eräänä keinona on esitetty kuntien käyttötalouden kannustinmallia. Mallin olisi tarkoitus ...
Victorian Voting: Party Orientation and Class Alignment Revisited
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 2018-01-29)
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 the 19th ...