I am Associate Professor of Economics at Aalto University and Helsinki GSE, co-PI of the Education for the Future Flagship Center, and part-time Associate Research Professor at the VATT Institute for Economic Research. My research focuses on education, migration, and social mobility, sometimes in multidisciplinary collaborations.
I received my PhD from the Helsinki School of Economics in 2009. I have worked as a postdoctoral researcher at LSE and been a visiting scholar at MIT and UCL.
Working Papers
Slides · Original version: Exposure(s) to Trade and Earnings Dynamics
Agglomeration in the Periphery
Appendix · [resting]
Publications
Intergenerational Spillovers of Integration Policies: Evidence from Finland's Integration Plans
Review of Economics and Statistics, forthcoming
Journal of the European Economic Association, 2025, 23(1): 119–158
Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2025, 127(4): 742–764
Social Interaction in the Family: Evidence from Investors' Security Holdings
Review of Finance, 2023, 27(4): 1297–1327
Habit Formation and the Misallocation of Labor: Evidence from Forced Migrations
Journal of the European Economic Association, 2022, 20(6): 2497–2539
Immigration History, Entry Jobs and the Labor Market Integration of Immigrants
Journal of Economic Geography, 2022, 22(3): 581–604
The Local Economic Impacts of Regeneration Projects: Evidence from UK's Single Regeneration Budget
Journal of Urban Economics, 2021, 122, 103315
Post-Secondary Education and Information on Labor Market Prospects: A Randomized Field Experiment
Labour Economics, 2020, 66, 101888
Journal of Economic Geography, 2020, 20(2): 459–480
Secular Rise in Economically Valuable Personality Traits
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2017, 114(25): 6527–6532
Formative Experiences and Portfolio Choice: Evidence from the Finnish Great Depression
Journal of Finance, 2017, 72(1): 133–166
The Evolution of Social Mobility: Norway during the 20th Century
Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2017, 119(1): 5–33
The Impact of Forced Migration on Mortality: a Cohort Study of 242,075 Finns in 1939–2010
Epidemiology, 2017, 28(4): 587–593
Integrating Immigrants: The Impact of Restructuring Active Labor Market Policies
Journal of Labor Economics, 2016, 34(2): 479–508
Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2011, 113(3): 665–688
Invited Papers
Learning to Experiment: Practical Lessons from Finland's Two-Year Preschool Experiment
Nordic Economic Policy Review, 2026, 16(1): 47-86
1990-luvun laman pitkät jäljet
in Eloranta and Uusitalo (eds): Ankarat ajat. Suomalaisten talouskriisien pitkä historia. Gaudeamus, 2024
Managing Refugee Protection Crises: Policy Lessons from Economics and Political Science
Journal of the Finnish Economic Association, 2021, 2(1): 1–24
Labor Market Integration of Refugees in Finland
Nordic Economic Policy Review, 2017, 7(1): 91–114
Work in Progress
Reforming Universal Early Childhood Education: Finland’s Two-Year Preschool Experiment
Building a Shared Reality: Social Cohesion in Diverse Classrooms
Finding One's Path: Career-Counselor Training and Students' Educational Choices
Reading Gains Through Teacher Pairs: A Co-Teaching Experiment
Opening Borders: Self-Selection and Economic Outcomes of Migration During the EU Enlargement
Forced Displacement Shapes Personality Traits across Generations
The Impact of Foreign Acquisitions on Wages and Compensation
Selected Policy Papers
Perusopetuksen oppimistulokset ja mahdollisuuksien tasa-arvo
Publications of the Audit Committee 1/2026, Parliament of Finland
Kaksivuotisen esiopetuksen kokeilu: Loppuraportti
Publications of the Ministry of Education and Culture, Finland 2026:2
Taloustieteilijät EDUCA-lippulaivassa
Kansantaloudellinen aikakauskirja 2/2025: 100–107
Mitä tiedämme maahanmuuttajien kotoutumispolitiikan vaikuttavuudesta?
Talous & Yhteiskunta 4/2024
Pienituloisten perheiden lapset joutuvat kiusatuksi muita useammin
Kansallinen koulutuksen arviointikeskus. Tiivistelmät 4: 2024
Koto-SIB -kokeilun vaikutukset ja käytännön toteutus
Publications of the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment 2024:33
Eri syistä maahan muuttaneiden työllistyminen Suomessa
Publications of the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment 2024:9
Kaksivuotisen esiopetuksen kokeilu: Väliraportti
Publications of the Ministry of Education and Culture, Finland 2023:19
Kaksivuotinen esiopetus -kokeilu. Tutkimussuunnitelma
Aalto Economic Institute
Vaikutusarvioinnit osaksi päätöksentekoa
Edistys-raportti 01/2019
Parempi tapa valita korkeakouluopiskelijat
VATT Policy Brief 1-2016
Kotoutumissuunnitelmien vaikutukset maahanmuuttajien lasten koulutusvalintoihin
Publications of the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment 43/2015
Maahanmuuttajien integroituminen Suomeen
VATT Analyysi 2, 2014
Integroitumista vai eriytymistä? Maahanmuuttajalapset ja -nuoret Suomessa
KELA Työpapereita 56/2014
Muuttoliikkeet, työmarkkinat ja julkinen talous
in Martikainen, Saukkonen, Sääävälä (eds): Muuttajat. Gaudeamus, 2013
Vievätkö maahanmuuttajat kantaväestön työpaikat?
Talous & Yhteiskunta 4/2010: 10–15
Maahanmuuton taloustiede: lyhyt johdatus
Kansantaloudellinen aikakauskirja 3/2010: 253–270
Teaching
- Taloustieteen perusteet (Principles of Economics)
- History of Economic Growth and Crises
- Principles of Empirical Analysis (with Miri Stryjan)
- Integration of Immigrants
- Labor Economics (with Tuomas Pekkarinen)
- International Economics