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Twitter and Crime: The Effect of Social Movements on GenderBased Violence
(ifo Institute, 2022-10-31)
This paper asks whether social movements taking place on Twitter affect genderbased violence (GBV). Using Twitter data and machine learning methods, we construct a novel data set on the prevalence of Twitter conversations ...
Do Second Chances Pay Off? Evidence from a Natural Experiment with Low-Achieving Students
(IZA Institute of Labor Economics, 2022-03)
In several countries, students who fail end-of-high-school high-stakes exams are faced with the choice of retaking them or forgoing postsecondary education. We explore exogenous variation generated by a 2006 policy that ...
Effect of Secondary Education on Cognitive and Non-cognitive Skills
(IZA Institute of Labor Economics, 2022-05)
We exploit admission cutoffs to secondary schools to study the effects of general academically oriented, versus vocational secondary schooling on cognitive and non-cognitive skills using a regression discontinuity design. ...
Intergenerational Spillovers of Integration Policies: Evidence from Finland's Integration Plans
(IZA Institute of Labor Economics, 2022)
This paper shows that an integration policy aimed at unemployed adult immigrants generated positive spillovers for their children. Our research design builds on a discontinuity in the phase-in-rule of Finland’s 1999 reform ...
The Unequal Cost of Job Loss across Countries
(NBER, 2022-02)
We document the consequences of losing a job across countries using a harmonized research design. Workers in Denmark and Sweden experience the lowest earnings declines following job displacement, while workers in Italy, ...
Migration and Tax Policy: Evidence from Finnish Full Population Data
(Tampereen yliopisto, 2022-10-05)
While evidence on the impact of taxation on the international migration of certain special groups of workers has expanded, evidence on the links between taxes and migration of the general population is extremely limited. ...
Paying Moms to Stay Home: Short and Long Run Effects on Parents and Children
(Tampereen yliopisto, 2022-11-22)
We study the impacts of a policy designed to reward mothers who stay at home rather than join the labor force when their children are under age three. We use regional and over time variation in child home care allowance ...
Bearing the burden ̶ Implications of tax reporting institutions and image concerns on evasion and incidence
(Tampereen yliopisto, 2022-11-24)
We investigate effects of tax reporting institutions on evasion and incidence using an experimental double auction market setting. We find that 28% of the sellers are truthful when only sellers report, but that 88% and 64% ...
Tax Policy Design in a Hierarchical Model with Occupational Decisions
(Tampereen yliopisto, 2022-11-22)
This study incorporates occupational decisions in a hierarchical model to investigate distortions in the tax policy design. The economy has two sectors, wage-earners and self-employment, where evasion is only possible in ...
Prescription behavior of physicians in the public and private sector
(Tampereen yliopisto, 2022-12-22)
We analyze prescription behavior of physicians in the public and private sector. We study two major diseases for which an effective, widely accepted low-cost treatment and alternative, more expensive treatments are available. ...