Previous seminars
2024 programme
15.1.2024 Mika Kortelainen (THL & University of Turku): "Improving Performance Through Allocation and Competition: Evidence from a Patient Choice Reform" (paper)
18.3.2024 Tuomas Kosonen (VATT): "Assessing the impacts of alcohol sales restrictions" (paper)
15.4.2024 Marko Korhonen (University of Oulu): "CEO’s Spouse’s Death and Firm Performance" (paper)
20.5.2024 Thang Dang (Centre for Fertility and Health, Norwegian Institute of Public Health): "Language Training, Refugees’ Healthcare Integration, and the Next Generation's Health" (paper)
19.8.2024 Tapio Räsänen (KELA): "Family policy and maternal mental health" (paper)
16.9.2024 Virva Hyttinen (UEF): "Impact of the publication of the Finnish Meds75+ database on the use of potentially inappropriate medications in older persons"
21.10.2024 Riikka Savolainen (Swansea University): "Studying a Sin Tax Scheme with Multiple Reforms. Lessons for Consumption Taxation" (paper)
18.11.2024 Petri Böckerman (University of Jyväskylä, LABORE): "Effect of Information Intervention on Opioid Prescribing: A Pre-Registered Nationwide Randomized Experiment" (paper)
16.12.2024 Lauri Luosta (University of Wisconsin-Madison): "The Cross-Border Spillover Effects of Recreational Marijuana Dispensaries on Child Protective Services Reporting" (paper)
2025 programme
20.1.2025 Sara Abrahamsson (Norwegian Institute of Public Health): Smartphone Bans, Student Outcomes and Mental Health" (paper)
17.3.2025 Aline Bütikofer (NHH): "Long-Term Consequences of Air Pollution: Does Age or Years of Exposure Matter?"
28.4.2025 Maarit Olkkola (VATT): "Universal Child Health Services and the Educational Attainment and Adult Income of Rural Children" (paper)
19.5.2025 Aljoscha Janssen (Singapore Management University): "Peer Effects in Drug Adoption" (paper)
16.6.2025 Antti Ripatti (University of Helsinki): "Macroeconomic Impact of Endemic COVID-19"
15.9.2024 Gosia Majewska (ESSEC Business School): "Drug Shortages: Empirical Evidence from France" (paper)
20.10.2025 Patrizia Massner (Johns Hopkins University): "Should Elder Care be Subsidized? Theory and Evidence from Sweden" (paper)
17.11.2025 Otto Toivanen (Aalto University, Helsinki GSE): "Free Entry and Social Inefficiency in Regulated Pharmacy Markets" (paper)
Spring 2026
19.1.2026 Max Toikka (Aalto University, VATT Datahuone): "Labor Market Effects of Public-Private Sector Competition in Health and Social Services" (paper)
9.2.2026 Jasmin Moshfegh (Imperial College London): "Who Gains When Medicine Becomes More Precise? Evidence from Genomic Testing in Breast Cancer" (paper)
16.3.2026 Stefan Pichler (University of Groningen): "Stress, Resilience, and Place: Life-Course Health Inequalities in the Dutch Lifelines Cohort" (paper)
20.4.2026 Nicole Black (Monash University): "Dynamic Effects of Out-of-Home Care Placements on Children’s Health and Schooling"
18.5.2026 Terhi Ravaska (Tampere University): "Easing Into Retirement: Work Hours, Health Care Use, and Long-Run Health Outcomes"
15.6.2026 Tuomas Markkula (University of Hamburg): "Cutting the Queue to the Dentist: Waiting Time, Public-Private Interaction and Consumer Surplus" (paper)