Roope Uusitalo

Research Fellow

University of Helsinki

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Roope Uusitalo has been a professor in Economics of Education at the University of Jyväskylä since 2015. Previously he was a Research Director at Helsinki Center of Economic Research (HECER) and professor at University of Helsinki.

He received his PhD from University of Helsinki in 1999 and has since then been employed as a research director at the Government Institute for Economic Research, as a research coordinator at Labor Institute for Economic Research, as a professor at Helsinki School of Economics, and as a researcher at University of Helsinki and Institute for Labor Market Policy Evaluation at Uppsala. His current research interests include labor market effects of government programs, economic effects of immigration and economics of education.

Uusitalo is a chairman of Finnish Economic Policy Council and affiliated researcher at Institute of Labor market policy evaluation, Uppsala.

He joined IZA as a Research Fellow in January 2009.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16074
School Closures and Student Achievement: Evidence from a High Stakes Exam
Marc Riudavets-Barcons, Roope Uusitalo
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15318
Effect of Secondary Education on Cognitive and Non-cognitive Skills
Jani-Petteri Ollikainen, Tuomas Pekkarinen, Roope Uusitalo, Hanna Virtanen
published in: Economics of Education Review, 2024, 103, 102603
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12084
Lost Boys: Access to Secondary Education and Crime
Kristiina Huttunen, Tuomas Pekkarinen, Roope Uusitalo, Hanna Virtanen
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2023, 218, 104804
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11142
Graduation Incentives Through Conditional Student Loan Forgiveness
Ulla Hämäläinen, Kristian Koerselman, Roope Uusitalo
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9632
Seniority Rules, Worker Mobility and Wages: Evidence from Multi-Country Linked Employer-Employee Data
Petri Böckerman, Per Skedinger, Roope Uusitalo
published in: Labour Economics, 2018, 51, 48-62
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9372
Post-Secondary Education and Information on Labor Market Prospects: A Randomized Field Experiment
Sari Pekkala Kerr, Tuomas Pekkarinen, Matti Sarvimäki, Roope Uusitalo
published in: Labour Economics, 2020, 66, 101888
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7752
The Risk and Return of Human Capital Investments
Kristian Koerselman, Roope Uusitalo
published in: Labour Economics, 2014, 30, 154-163
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6909
Aging and Productivity: Evidence from Piece Rates
Tuomas Pekkarinen, Roope Uusitalo
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4931
The Employment Effects of Low-Wage Subsidies
Kristiina Huttunen, Jukka Pirttilä, Roope Uusitalo
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2013, 97, 49–60
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4721
Changes in Job Stability: Evidence from Lifetime Job Histories
Miikka Rokkanen, Roope Uusitalo
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4058
School Tracking and Development of Cognitive Skills
Tuomas Pekkarinen, Roope Uusitalo, Sari Pekkala Kerr
published in Journal of Labor Economics, 2013, 31 (3), 577-603.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4013
Labour Market Effects of the Polytechnic Education Reform: The Finnish Experience
Petri Böckerman, Ulla Hämäläinen, Roope Uusitalo
published in: Economics of Education Review, 2009, 28 (6), 672-681
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4003
Long-Term Effects of Forced Migration
Matti Sarvimäki, Roope Uusitalo, Markus Jäntti
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2204
Education Policy and Intergenerational Income Mobility: Evidence from the Finnish Comprehensive School Reform
Tuomas Pekkarinen, Roope Uusitalo, Sari Pekkala Kerr
revised version published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2009, 93, 965-973
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