Mika Haapanen

Contact details / Yhteystiedot

Associate professor
Jyväskylä University School of Business and Economics (JSBE)
PO Box 35
FI-40014 University of Jyväskylä
Finland

Apulaisprofessori
Jyväskylän yliopiston kauppakorkeakoulu
PL 35
40014 Jyväskylän yliopisto

Phone number: +358405767800 (work) / +358414646375 (home)

Email: mika.p.haapanen (at) jyu.fi

Twitter: @HaapanenMika

Orcid: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2964-3352

About my work

I work as an associate professor of economics at the Jyväskylä University School of Business and Economics (JSBE). My responsibilities include courses:

• KTTS2110 Mikrotaloustieteellinen politiikka-analyysi ja sääntelyn taloustiede (Microeconomics of Policy Analysis and Regulation)
• KTTP3210 Koulutuksen talous (Economics of Education)
• Coordination of the JSBE research seminar at the JSBE.

I'm also involved in research consortium funded by the Strategic Research Council (SRC) at the Academy of Finland: Work, Inequality, and Public Policy (WIP), which addresses a wide range of inequalities and how these are modified by public policy in the short run and over a lifecycle.

My second bigger research project is called "Education and mental health" (joint research project with e.g. Petri Böckerman, Hannu Karhunen, Christopher Jepsen and Alexandra Roulet).

In addition to my work at the University of Jyväskylä, I act as:

• Docent (Adjunct professor) of economics, particularly economics of education, at the Tampere University.
• Associate editor for Regional Studies, Regional Science published by Taylor & Francis for the Regional Studies Association.

General interests: labour economics, economics of education, regional economics, health economics, empirical microeconomics.

Topics in particular: returns to education, labour migration, mental health.

For more details, please see my CV (pdf-file updated: 06.04.2021) and List of Publications (pdf-file updated: 06.04.2021)

Work in progress, e.g.

• Böckerman, P., Haapanen, M. & Jepsen, C. "Much ado about nothing? Minimum legal drinking age and morbidity".

Refereed publications

• Böckerman, P., Haapanen, M., Jepsen, C. & Roulet, A. (forthcoming). "School tracking and mental health". Journal of Human Capital. Doi: 10.1086/712728 (Open Access). Earlier version was published as IZA Discussion Papers, No. 12733.
• Böckerman, P., Haapanen, M., Hakulinen, C., Karhunen, H. & Maczulskij, T. (forthcoming). "Determinants of prescription opioid use: Population-based evidence from Finland". Addiction. doi: 10.1111/add.15071.
• Eliasson, K., Haapanen, M. & Westerlund, O. (2020). "Regional concentration of university graduates: The role of high school grades and parental background". European Urban and Regional Studies, 27(4), 398-414. doi: 10.1177/0969776420923133. (Open Access) Earlier version was published as Scandinavian Working Papers in Economics, No. 966.
• Böckerman, P., Haapanen, M. & Jepsen, C. (2019). "Back to School: Labor-Market Returns to Higher Vocational Schooling". Labour Economics, 61, 101758. DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2019.101758. Note: Open Access. In this paper, we consider the returns to vocational master's degrees that were launched in 2002 in Finland.
• Alavuotunki, K., Haapanen, M. & Pirttilä, J. (2019). "The Effects of the Value-Added Tax on Revenue and Inequality”. Journal of Development Studies, 55(4), 490-508. DOI:10.1080/00220388.2017.1400015. Note: earlier version of the paper has been published as CESifo WP no. 6318.
• Böckerman, P., Haapanen, M. & Jepsen, C. (2018). "More Skilled, Better Paid: Labour-Market Returns to Postsecondary Vocational Education". Oxford Economic Papers, 70(2), 485–508 (Open Access). DOI: 10.1093/oep/gpx052. Note: earlier version of the paper has been published as IZA Discussion Paper No. 9079.
• Haapanen, M. & Böckerman, P. (2017). "More educated, more mobile? Evidence from post-secondary education reform". Spatial Economic Analysis, 12(1), 8-26. doi: 10.1080/17421772.2017.1244610. An open access version of the paper is also available; it includes supplementary online appendix. [If you do not have institutional access you may also download journal version from here (a limit of 50 times)]
• Haapanen, M. & Karhunen, H. (2017). "Working while studying: Does it lead to greater attachment to the regional labour market?”. In: J. Corcoran & A. Faggian (eds.) Graduate Migration and Regional Development: An International Perspective. New Horizons in Regional Science series, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, Chapter 6, pp. 114-138.
• Haapanen, M., Lenihan, H. & Tokila, A. (2017). "Innovation expectations and patenting in private and public R&D projects". Growth and Change, 48(4), 744–768. doi: 10.1111/grow.12193
• Tervo, H. & Haapanen, M. (2017). "Opportunity- and necessity-driven self-employment among older people in Finland", In: Aaltio, Iiris, Mills, Albert J., Mills, Jean Helms (Eds.) Ageing, Organisations and Management: Constructive Discourses and Critical Perspectives, London: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-58813-1
• Haapanen, M., Lenihan, H. & Mariani, M. (2014). Government policy failure in public support for research and development. Policy Studies, 35(6), 557-575. doi: 10.1080/01442872.2014.971728 [If you do not have institutional access you may also download it here (a limit of 50 times)]
• Böckerman, P. & Haapanen, M. (2013). The effect of polytechnic reform on migration. Journal of Population Economics, 26(2), 593–617. doi: 10.1007/s00148-012-0454-4. An open access version of the paper is also available.
• Haapanen, M. (2012). Kokemuksia oppijalähtöisestä työn taloustieteen opetuksesta ("Experiences from student-oriented teaching of labour economics", available only in Finnish). Kansantaloudellinen aikakauskirja, 108(3), 332-344; lisämateriaaleja vuoden 2007 ja 2012 kursseihin liittyen saatavissa pakattuna: 2007.zip ja 2012.zip.
• Haapanen, M. & Tervo, H. (2012). Migration of the highly educated: Evidence from residence spells of university graduates. Journal of Regional Science, 52(4), 587–605; see also our Web Appendix.
• Tokila, A. & Haapanen, M. (2012). Evaluation of deadweight spending in regional enterprise financing. Regional Studies, 46(2), 185-201, see also our Web Appendix.
• Tervo, H. & Haapanen, M. (2010). The nature of self-employment: how does gender matter? International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, 9(3), 349-371.
• Haapanen, M. & Tervo, H. (2009). Self-employment duration in urban and rural locations. Applied Economics, 41(19),2449-2461.
• Haapanen, M. & Tervo, H. (2009). Cumulative inertia or cumulative stress? Migration behaviour of Finnish graduates. Migration letters, 6(1), 83-90.
• Tokila, A. & Haapanen, M. (2009). Evaluating project deadweight measures: evidence from Finnish business subsidies. Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, 27(1) 124–140.
• Tokila, A., Haapanen, M. & Ritsilä, J. (2008). Evaluation of investment subsidies: when is deadweight zero?. International Review of Applied Economics, 22(5), 585-600.
• Haapanen, M. & Ritsilä, J. (2007). Can migration decisions be affected by income policy interventions? Evidence from Finland, Regional Studies, 41 (3), 339-348.
• Tervo, H. & Haapanen, M. (2007). Miksi naisia on vain vähän yrittäjinä? Kansantaloudellinen aikakauskirja, 103 (1), 28-43.
• Ritsilä, J. & Haapanen, M. (2003). Where do the highly educated migrate? Micro-level evidence from Finland. International Review of Applied Economics, 17(4), 437-448.

Open access versions are available for most of my publications.

Other publications

Böckerman, P., & Haapanen, M. (2019). Miten ammattikorkeakoulutus vaikuttaa menestykseen työmarkkinoilla? Akava Works No. 3/2019.

Tournaments and Congresses

I have taken part in organising, for example, the following tournaments and congresses in Jyväskylä

• The 12th Annual Football Tournament for Finnish Economists ("Taloustieteilijöiden SM-jalkapalloturnaus") has been held in Jyväskylä in 2009 and 2011. University of Oulu organised it in 2008. The tournament was also held in Jyväskylä e.g. in 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007; see more details for 2007 and 2006 (in Finnish).
• Taloustutkijoiden keseminaari 2006-, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001 ("Annual Jyväskylä Meeting for Finnish Economists")
• XXX Kansantaloustieteen päivät (Annual Meeting of the Finnish Society for Economic Research), 13.-14.2.2008
• ERSA 2003 Congress (the European Regional Science Association)
• EALE 2001 Conference (the European Association of Labour Economists)