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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. ...
Are voters rational?
(Elsevier, 2019)
We test whether a voter's decision to cast a vote depends on its probability of affecting the election outcome. Using exogenous variation arising at population cutoffs determining council sizes in Finnish municipal elections, ...
Expanding access to administrative data: the case of tax authorities in Finland and the UK
(Springer Verlag, 2019)
We discuss typical issues in getting access to and using high-quality administrative tax data for research purposes. We discuss research involving both quasi- and field experiments implemented together with the tax authority. ...
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 ...
Open or Closed? How List Type Affects Electoral Performance, Candidate Selection, and Campaign Effort
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 2019-07-12)
What effect does using open (as opposed to closed) lists in proportional representation elections have on party performance and the quality of candidate selection? We provide novel evidence by studying local elections in ...
Public Procurement versus Laissez-Faire: Evidence from Household Waste Collection
(Oxford University Press, 2019)
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 ...
Victorian Voting: The Origins of Party Orientation and Class Alignment
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 2019-10-02)
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 19th-century ...