Jaakko Meriläinen
@jmerilainen
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economics AP @EconomicsSSE, mediocre political economist, winner of the 2011 International #Kantele Competition, #FirstGen, and Mila & Mateo's dad
Joined January 2010
RT @JohnHolbein1: This looks potentially useful for junior scholars. "The Research Paper Playbook: A PhD Student's Guide to Writing and P….
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RT @VinPons: Thrilled to see our paper published in the American Economic Review!! 👇👇👇.We show that candidates in US and French elections m….
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🚮🤦♂️❌. 🧍♂️#️⃣2️⃣.
if i asked you to summarize your research agenda in emojis, i bet you couldn't do it.
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RT @silviavannutell: We are doing it again! Please submit your papers and come see us in Lisbon :).
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RT @sirdeh: Can early exposure to female authority figures help voters resist the culture backlash against advances in gender equality? . I….
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RT @SorryToBeKurt: Any Econ PhD students at Harvard (or elsewhere in the U.S.) worried about visa status, the @IIES_Sthlm has openings for….
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⚠️ Attention: The site is currently down. Our engineering team is investigating. We will update as soon as possible. You can track progress here: Sorry for any inconvenience.
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RT @JeanetBentzen: Hi folks! .Will we see you in Copenhagen this September? .Call for ASREC conference is out! .Preceded by grad student wo….
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Just a note: this is a working paper and hasn’t been peer-reviewed. We welcome scholarly feedback -- and hope to bring our research in attention of researchers interested in similar questions -- but urge caution in generalizing the findings or drawing unwarranted conclusions.
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RT @johannarickne: 🚨 REPLICATION REPORT UPDATE: One year ago, a tweet by @JohnHolbein1 alerted me, @OlleFolke, and Joop Adema (@Jopieboy) t….
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RT @HLarreguy: I still cannot believe that we finally got "Missionary Activity, Education, and Long-run Political Development: Evidence Acr….
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💡 In all, our study provides rare causal evidence that early exposure to ideological content in schools can shape economic behavior and political preferences for life, even in a democratic society with a market economy.
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📋 Original survey evidence: In a follow-up survey of treated and control individuals, we find suggestive evidence of lasting effects on beliefs and political views---consistent with the ideology embedded in the Pirkkala school experiment curriculum.
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🧠 No systematic differences in education, cognitive ability, or achievement-related traits: The income effects are unlikely to be driven by skill deficits or fewer educational opportunities. Instead, the evidence points to a shift in values and preferences.
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👷 Persistent changes in labor supply & occupational choice: They worked less months per year and were more likely to enter civic-minded, lower-paying occupations (e.g., teaching, nursing), and less likely to hold managerial roles.
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Our findings:. 📉 Lower adult incomes: Exposed students earned about 10% less in adulthood; an effect comparable to the return to an additional year of schooling. Where does this effect come from? We look at several possible mechanisms.
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The aim? To study the formation of a "functioning [socialist] worldview.". What became of the children who were exposed? . We use Finnish register data and a difference-in-differences strategy to study the long-run consequences of this episode of ideological education.
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In 1970s Finland, a group of educational psychologists launched an experiment: two cohorts of fifth graders in the town of Pirkkala were taught a history and social studies curriculum shaped by Marxist-Leninist ideology.
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