Publications:
Kuuppelomäki, T., Kortelainen, M., Suhonen, T. & Virtanen, H. (2026). “Labor Market Returns to Elite STEM Education". Journal of Human Capital 20:1. Forthcoming. https://doi.org/10.1086/738044
Silliman M. and Virtanen, H. (2025). ”Returns to Adult Learning”. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190625979.013.930.
Ollikainen, J.-P., Pekkarinen, T., Uusitalo, R. & Virtanen, H. (2022). "Effect of Secondary Education on Cognitive and Non-cognitive Skills". Economics of Education Review, 103, 102603. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econedurev.2024.102603
Huttunen, K., Pekkarinen, T., Uusitalo, R. & Virtanen, H. (2023). “Lost Boys: Access to Secondary Education and Crime”. Journal of Public Economics. Volume 218, February 2023.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2022.104804
McNally, S., Ventura, G., Virtanen, H. (2022). "Returns to Vocational Education and Training". In: Zimmermann, K.F. (eds) Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics.
Silliman, M. & Virtanen, H. (2022). “Labor Market Returns to Vocational Secondary Education”. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 14:1, pp. 197-224. 10.1257/app.20190782 *Society of Labor Economists 2019 Fellows Best Poster Award.
Maliranta, M., Nurmi, S., & Virtanen, H. (2010). ”Resources in vocational education and post-schooling outcomes”. International Journal of Manpower, 31: 5, pp. 520-544.
Working Papers:
Virtanen, H., Silliman, M., Kuuppelomäki, T., & Huttunen, K. (2024). "Education, Gender, and Family Formation". ETLA Working Papers No 116. *Revise & Resubmit American Economic Journal: Economic Policy.
Kauhanen, A. & Virtanen, H. (2021) "Heterogeneity in Labor Market Returns to Adult Education". ETLA Working Papers No 91.
Virtanen, H. & Riukula, K. (2021) "The Effect of Access to Post-Compulsory Education: Evidence from Structural Breaks in School Supply". ETLA Working Papers No 85.