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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 ...
School starting age, maternal age at birth, and child outcomes
(Elsevier, 2022-07)
This paper analyses the effects of maternal age at birth on children's short and long-term outcomes using Finnish register data. We exploit a school starting age rule for identification. Mothers who are born after the ...
The impact of mortgage regulation on homeownership and household leverage: Evidence from Finland's LTV reform
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 2022-10-12)
This paper examines the impact of a limit on loan-to-value (LTV) ratios implemented in Finland in 2016. Focusing on households that buy an apartment for the first time, we evaluate how the regulation influenced household ...
Housing Allowance and Rents: Evidence from a Stepwise Subsidy Scheme
(Wiley, 2021)
In this paper, we study the effect of housing demand subsidies on rents using discontinuities in the Finnish housing allowance system as a quasi‐experimental setting. The stepwise dependence of housing allowance on the ...
School starting age, maternal age at birth, and child outcomes
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 2021-02-23)
This paper analyses the effects of maternal school starting age and maternal age-at-birth on children’s short and long-term outcomes using Finnish register data. We exploit a school-starting-age rule for identification. ...
Mortality Inequality in Finland
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 2021-02-26)
We study inequality in mortality in Finland using registry data that covers the whole population for years 1990-2018. We create municipality-level indexes of regional deprivation (poverty rate), and show how age-specifc ...
Physician Prices and Competition: Evidence from Acquisitions in the Private Health Care Sector
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 2020-04-30)
We consider the effects of mergers and acquisitions for private physicians, who compete for patients on price. To estimate the effects, we use nationwide administrative data on private physicians and the organization of ...
Immigrant intergenerational mobility: A focus on childhood environment
(Elsevier, 2022)
Over 60% of immigrant parents in Sweden start off in the bottom quintile of the income distribution, yet only about 30% of their children are still in the bottom income quintile in adulthood. This progress notwithstanding, ...
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 ...
Information Integration, Coordination Failures, and Quality of Prescribing
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 2020-10-26)
Poor information flows hamper coordination, potentially leading to suboptimal decisions in health care. We examine the effects of a nationwide policy of information integration on the quality of prescribing. We use the ...