Contact

Email:  matti.sarvimaki[at.]aalto.fi
Tel: +1 617 258 9651

Sept. 2011 - Sept. 2012:
MIT Department of Economics
50 Memorial Drive (room E52-251d)
Cambridge MA 02142-1347, USA

Permanent:
Department of Economics, Aalto University
[former Helsinki School of Economics]
Arkadiankatu 7, 00100 Helsinki, Finland

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Papers

Agglomeration in the Periphery (2011) | Appendix | Slides

The Long-Term Effects of Forced Migration (2010).
With Roope Uusitalo and Markus Jäntti
Summarized in CentrePiece 14(2) Autumn 2009: 24-26

Assimilating Immigrants: The Impact of an Integration Program (Apr. 2012) | Appendix
With Kari Hämäläinen

Assimilation to a Welfare State: Labor Market Performance and Use of Social Benefits by Immigrants to Finland (2011) Scandinavian Journal of Economics 113(3), 665–688

Work in progress

Urban Capital and Spillovers: Evidence from the London V-bombings. With Steve Redding and Daniel Sturm

The Allocation of Talent. With Marko Terviö

Equality of Opportunity and Cognitive Ability in the 20th Century Norway. With Tuomas Pekkarinen and Kjell Salvanes

The Impact of Subsidizing Commercial Space in Deprived Neighbourhoods. With Steve Gibbons and Henry Overman

Information and Educational Choice: a Field Experiment. With Sari Pekkala Kerr, Tuomas Pekkarinen and Roope Uusitalo

Labor Market Experiences and Portfolio Choice. With Samuli Knüpfer and Elias Rantapuska

The Intergenerational Impact of Unemployment. With Kari Hämäläinen, Ulla Hämäläinen and Eva Österbacka

Policy papers (in Finnish)

See my VATT homepage

Teaching

Labor Economics (Spring 2011)
International Economics (Fall 2008)

Other

History as a Laboratory (video, 45min, in Finnish; my part starts at 48:00)
Presentation at the Finnish Academy of Science

The Economic Impact of Immigration (audio, 29min, in Finnish)
Radio interview at YLE