Publications:

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.

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.  *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.

Ollikainen, J.-P., Pekkarinen, T., Uusitalo, R. & Virtanen, H. (2022). "Effect of Secondary Education on Cognitive and Non-cognitive Skills". IZA Discussion Paper No. 15318.

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.

Kuuppelomäki, T., Kortelainen, M., Suhonen, T. & Virtanen, H. (2019). “Does Admission to Elite Engineering School Make a Difference?". Vatt Working Papers No 127. *Revise and resubmit Journal of Human Capital.

Thesis

Virtanen, H. (2016). "Essays on Post-Compulsory Education Attainment in Finland". Aalto University publication series Doctoral dissertations, 87/2016.

Work in Progress:

“Education and Family Formation” (with Huttunen, K., Kuuppelomäki, T. and Sillman, M.)

“Cost-effectiveness of Adult Education” (with Kauhanen, A. and Sillman, M.)

“Secondary Education and Sibling Spillovers” (with Sillman, M.)

“Education and Mental Health” (with Haapanen, M. and Karhunen, H.)

Awards:

SOLE Fellows Awards for Best Posters 2019 at the 24th Annual SOLE Meetings, see poster.