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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. ...
The spike at benefit exhaustion: The role of measurement error in benefit eligibility
(Elsevier, 2019)
Many studies have found that the exit rate from unemployment insurance benefits to employment increases at the end of the entitlement period. The magnitude of this “spike” in the job finding rate at benefit exhaustion is ...
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, ...
Self-Selection of Emigrants: Theory and Evidence on Stochastic Dominance in Observable and Unobservable Characteristics
(Oxford University Press, 2019)
The Roy model has more precise predictions about the self-selection of migrants than previously realised. The conditions shown to result in positive or negative selection in terms of expected earnings also imply a stochastic ...
Switching costs and financial stability
(Elsevier, 2019)
We establish that the effect of intensified deposit market competition, measured by reduced switching costs, on the probability of bank failures depends critically on whether we focus on competition with established customer ...
New road infrastructure: The effects on firms
(Elsevier, 2019)
This paper estimates the impact of new road infrastructure on employment and labour productivity using firm level longitudinal data for Britain. Exposure to transport improvements is measured through changes in accessibility, ...
Does subsidized part-time employment help unemployed workers to find full-time employment?
(Elsevier, 2019)
We study whether part-time work acts as a bridge towards full-time work for unemployed workers in Spain. We consider a time period when firms were encouraged to create part-time jobs by cutting employers' social security ...
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. ...
Economic Crises and Unemployment Persistence: Analysis of Job Losses During the Finnish Recession of the 1990s
(Wiley, 2019)
This study estimates the effect of job loss for Finnish workers who were displaced during a severe recession in the early 1990s. The setting provides a sample of workers of which over 90% experienced unemployment after ...
Electricity prices and consumers’ long-term technology choices: Evidence from heating investments
(Elsevier, 2019)
This paper studies consumers’s sensitivity to energy costs at the moment of making a long-term energy technology investment. The analysis exploits local variation in regulated electricity distribution prices that are ...