VATT Institute for Economic Research

Recent papers from VATT Institute for Economic Research

1. Social Push and the Direction of InnovationAmerican Economic Review · 2026
2. Detecting Favoritism in Public ProcurementJournal of Industrial Economics · 2026
3. Heterogeneity in Effective Tax Rate Trends: Evidence from Finnish Corporate Tax ReturnsNordic Tax Journal · 2026
4. Sad but true: how emotions and political ideology shape perceptions of informationCognition & Emotion · 2026
5. Punishing Financial Crimes: The Impact of Prison Sentences on Defendants and Their ColleaguesAmerican Economic Journal Economic Policy · 2026
6. The Long-Term Impacts of Mixing the Rich and Poor: Evidence from Conscript DormsAmerican Economic Journal Applied Economics · 2026
7. Heterogeneous associations of polygenic indices of 35 traits with mortality: a register-linked population-based follow-up studyeLife · 2026
8. Age at Arrival and Immigrant Segregation: A Between-Siblings AnalysisInternational Migration Review · 2026
9. Estimating audit based tax gaps in ZambiaInternational Tax and Public Finance · 2025
10. Paying moms to stay home: Short and long run effects on parents and childrenJournal of Public Economics · 2025
11. Paths to integration: earnings, skill investments, and outmigration across immigrant admission categoriesScandinavian Journal of Economics · 2025
12. Health effects of cash transfers: Evidence from the Finnish basic income experimentJournal of Public Economics · 2025
13. Increasing sleep apnoea burden in the elderly in Finland from 1996 to 2018: A national registry studyRespiratory Medicine and Research · 2025
14. Labour supply responses to reducing the risk of losing disability insurance benefitsEconomica · 2025
15. Heterogenous associations of polygenic indices of 35 traits with mortality2025
16. Adult outcomes by parental, school and postcode aggregated income in childhood—A descriptive analysis of the cohorts 1981–1989 in FinlandPLoS ONE · 2025
17. Heterogenous associations of polygenic indices of 35 traits with mortality2025
18. Copayments for Prescription Drugs: The Drivers of Demand ResponsesHealth Economics · 2025
19. Personality Traits and Cognitive Ability in Political SelectionJournal of the European Economic Association · 2025
20. Firm responses to an interest barrier: empirical evidenceFiscal Studies · 2025