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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 ...
Effects of municipal mergers on voter turnout
(Taylor & Francis, 2018)
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 ...
Common pool problems in voluntary municipal mergers
(Elsevier, 2015)
We analyze free-riding behavior of Finnish municipalities prior to voluntary municipal mergers. The merger process creates a temporary common pool problem, because of a delay from the initial decision to the actual merger ...
Best Education Money Can Buy? Capitalization of School Quality in Finland
(Oxford University Press, 2018)
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 programmes, and information on ...
Local representation and strategic voting: Evidence from electoral boundary reforms
(Elsevier, 2016)
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 Urban Neighborhoods Benefit from Homeowners? Evidence from Housing Prices
(Wiley, 2015)
Homeownership is heavily subsidized in most countries. The adverse effects of this policy on economic efficiency and income distribution are well documented in the economics literature. The main argument in favor of ...
Public Employees as Politicians: Evidence from Close Elections
(Cambridge University Press, 2018)
We analyze the effect of municipal employees’ political representation in municipal councils on local public spending. We use within-party, as-good-as-random variation in close elections in the Finnish open-list proportional ...
Delivering affordable housing and neighborhood quality: A comparison of place- and tenant-based programs
(Elsevier, 2018)
This paper analyzes the relative merits of large place- and tenant-based housing programs in Finland in terms of housing affordability and neighborhood quality. Using hedonic regression methods and household micro data, ...
When does Regression Discontinuity Design Work? Evidence from Random Election Outcomes
(Econometric Society, 2018)
We use elections data in which a large number of ties in vote counts between candidates are resolved via a lottery to study the personal incumbency advantage. We benchmark non-experimental RDD estimates against the estimate ...
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 ...