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:

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

My main research project at the moment is "Education, labour market and mental health" (joint research papers e.g. with Petri Böckerman, Hannu Karhunen, Terhi Maczulskij, Christopher Jepsen and Alexandra Roulet).

In addition to my work at the University of Jyväskylä:

• I have a title of docent (adjunct professor), particularly in the economics of education, at the University of Tampere.
• I act as an 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: 03.09.2021)

Work in progress, e.g.

• Maczulskij, T., Haapanen, M., Kauhanen, K. & Riukula, K. (2021). "Dark Half: Decentralized Bargaining and Well-Being at Work". IZA Discussion Paper No. 14654 (pdf).
• Böckerman, P., Haapanen, M. & Jepsen, C. (2021). "Dark passage: Mental health consequences of parental death". IZA Discussion Paper No. 14385 (pdf).
• Böckerman, P., Haapanen, M. & Jepsen, C. "Much ado about nothing? Minimum legal drinking age and morbidity".

Recent publications

• Böckerman, P., Haapanen, M., Hakulinen, C., & Vainiomäki, J. (2021). Prescription opioid use and employment: a nationwide Finnish register study. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 227, Article 108967. doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2021.108967
• Böckerman, P., Haapanen, M., Jepsen, C. & Roulet, A. (2021). "School tracking and mental health". Journal of Human Capital, 15(2), 291-345. 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. (2021). "Determinants of prescription opioid use: Population-based evidence from Finland". Addiction, 116(1), 170-175. doi: 10.1111/add.15071.
• Eliasson, K., Haapanen, M. & Westerlund, O. (2021). Patterns of inter- and intra-regional differences in human capital and earnings: Evidence from Finland and Sweden 1987-2015. Applied Geography, 135, article 102539. doi: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2021.102539. (Open Access)
• 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

Open access versions are available for most of my publications.

Tournaments and Congresses

• 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)