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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
Subsidy Bidding Wars and the Structure of Multi-Plant Firms
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 2019-01-22)
Governments spend large amounts of money to attract firms to their territory, often resulting from bidding wars against other regions. Previous papers show that such bidding wars can improve social welfare by allocating ...
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 ...
When does money stick in education? Evidence from a kinked grant rule
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 2018-01-22)
We study the effects of intergovernmental grants on school spending within the Finnish system of high school education funding. The system allocates lump-sum intergovernmental grants to local education organizers using a ...