Jouko Verho

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Work in progress

• Demand for employment services in a basic income experiment  (with Kari Hämäläinen)

• Health effects of cash transfers: Evidence from the Finnish basic income experiment  (with Kari Hämäläinen and Miska Simanainen)

Working papers

• Do financial incentives for training and caseworker meetings enhance re-employment?, T. Kyyrä, J. Verho. VATT Working Papers 175, 2025.

• Prescription behaviour of physicians in the public and private sector, E. Jussila, K. Kotakorpi, J. Verho. FIT working paper 5, 2022.

Publications since 2010

• Copayments for prescription drugs: The drivers of demand responses, J. Verho, J. Harju. Health Economics,  2025; 34, 1160-117. Accepted paper

• Design and evaluation of the Finnish basic income experiment, K. Hämäläinen, J. Verho. National Tax Journal, 2022; 75, 573–596. CESifo WP

• Removing welfare traps: Employment responses in the Finnish Basic Income Experiment, J. Verho, K. Hämäläinen, O. Kanninen. AEJ: Economic Policy, 2022; 14, 501-22. VATT WP

• Regional variation in potentially inappropriate medicine use in older adults. A national register-based cross-sectional study on economic, health system-related and patient-related characteristics, L. Saastamoinen, J. Verho. Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy, 2021; 17, 1223-1227. Accepted paper

• Economic crises and unemployment persistence: Analysis of job losses during the Finnish recession of the 1990s. Economica, 2020; 87, 190-216. VATT WP

• The Spike at benefit exhaustion: The role of measurement error in benefit eligibility, T. Kyyrä, H. Pesola, J. Verho. Labour Economics, 2019; 60, 75–83. VATT WP

• Expanding access to administrative data: The case of tax authorities in Finland and the UK, M. Almunia, J. Harju, K. Kotakorpi, J. Tukiainen, J. Verho. International Tax and Public Finance, 2019; 26, 661–676.  VATT WP

• Register-based indicators for potentially inappropriate medication in high-cost patients with excessive polypharmacy, L. Saastamoinen, J. Verho. Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety, 2015; 24, 610–618.  Accepted paper

• Cross-border health and productivity effects of alcohol policies, P. Johansson, T. Pekkarinen, J. Verho. Journal of Health Economics, 2014; 36, 125–136. IZA WP

• Unemployment duration and the role of compositional variation: evidence from a period of economic crisis in Finland. Empirical Economics, 2014; 47, 35–56. Accepted paper

• Drug expenditure of high-cost patients and their characteristics in Finland, L. K. Saastamoinen, J. Verho. European Journal of Health Economics, 2013; 14, 495–502. Accepted paper

• The effect of unemployment benefits on re-employment rates: Evidence from the Finnish unemployment insurance reform, R. Uusitalo, J. Verho. Labour Economics, 2010; 17, 643–654. IFAU WP