Jouko Verho
Senior researcher, VATT Institute for Economic Research
My research interests are in empirical labour, public and health economics.
I received my PhD in economics from the University of Helsinki in 2008.
CESifo Research Network affiliate
Contact information
Jouko Verho
VATT Institute for Economic Research
P.O.Box 1279
FI-00101 Helsinki
E-mail: jouko.verho -at- iki.fi
Mobile phone: +358-50-360 9515
Work in progress
Evaluation of the Finnish basic income experiment (with Kari Hämäläinen and Miska Simanainen)
Working papers
Moral hazard in drug purchases. J. Verho, J. Harju. FIT working paper 12, 2023.
Prescription behaviour of physicians in the public and private sector. E. Jussila, K. Kotakorpi, J. Verho. FIT working paper 5, 2022.
Publications since 2010
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 benet exhaustion: The role of measurement error in benet 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 heath 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