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Tapio Räsänen
@tapiorasanen.bsky.social
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Senior researcher, Kela Research Department (Finland), PhD in economics. Family policy, mental health and gender gaps

https://rasanentapio.github.io/
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Hyvää huomenta, punavihreät kuplani!
Kuvio MS Paintilla piirretyistä, erikokoisista punaisista ja vihreistä kuplista
June 3, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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Onneksi on perjantai
Lähetä palautetta sovellukselle Microsoft Mikä meni vikaan? * Koko Teams on ongelma. Olisipa Lotus 1-2-3 vielä olemassa, niin maailma olisi parempi paikka <3 (sydän)
April 25, 2025 at 6:10 AM
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Kun annat selaimen täyttää kaikki kentät automaattisesti:
Ilmoittautumislomake, jossa lukee: "Erityisruokavaliotoive: Skumppaa ja sipsejä Terveiset järjestäjälle: Terveiset järjestäjälle"
March 26, 2025 at 7:04 AM
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Full text here:
A screenshot from newsletter Title: Shining a Light on Dark Shipping Text: Like in a second-rate movie, when the Dark Lord faces resistance, a host of dark beings come to his aid. In this case, the dark shapes coming to lend a hand to the likes of Vladimir Putin, Nicolás Maduro and Ali Khamenei are the dark ships secretly plying the oceans to deliver cargo under sanctions. We know that they have helped keep Russia’s economy afloat. But what are their wider effects? A new CESifo Working Paper shines a light on the dark corners of these shadowy fleets.
March 17, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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Why not? Best option @flux-consortium.bsky.social
A web form with the first option selected, with the following options: I will attend the seminar, lunch, afternoon coffee and dinner. I will attend the seminar, lunch and afternoon coffee. I will attend the seminar and lunch. I will attend the seminar only. I will attend the dinner only. I will not attend.
March 11, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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Onneksi emme jää mistään paitsi, huomenna sitten voidaan lukea mitä tämä kaikki tarkoitti:
yle.fi/a/74-2014652...
Trump vaatii kiitollisuutta Zelenskyiltä Trump haukkuu Zelenskyi ja vaatii häneltä kiitollisuutta Trumpin mukaan Zelenkyillä on huonot kortit ja Ukrainan tilanne on surkea. Trump haukkuu Bidenin politiikkaa. Koko tilanne menee huutamiseksi.
February 28, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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Back to work. These are my #stata tools in the middle, #rstats tools on the left. The pencil sharpener is my #ggplot2 tool
Wooden desk from the 1960s with a typewriter on the middle and some type of calculator and stamp on the left. The desk is located inside a cubicle in a building designed by Alvar Aalto
February 19, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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Nyt se tapahtui:
February 11, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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Perhevapaauudistus tuli voimaan 2022 elo-syyskuun vaihteessa, niin uudistuksen pitäisi vaikuttaa kotihoidon tuen saajien määrään jo 2023 syksyllä - jännittävää nähdä paljon käyttö vähenee!

Vuoden 2018 tammikuussa kotihoidon tuen saajia oli 46 731 ja vuoden 2023 syyskuussa saajia oli 27 746.
Kuviossa esitetään kotihoidon tuen saajien lukumäärä kuukausittain vuodesta 2018 vuoden 2023 syyskuuhun. Saajien määrä on vähentynyt koko ajanjaksolla ja tuen saajissa on kausivaihtelua. Vuoden 2018 tammikuussa saajia oli 46 731 ja vuoden 2023 syyskuussa saajia oli 27 746.
February 7, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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Kotihoidon tuen saajien määrä on vähentynyt jo ennen perhevapaauudistusta:

Vuonna 2007 saajia oli vuoden lopussa 60 000 ja vuonna 2022 saajia oli 37 000

@kelantutkimus.kela.fi Lähde: Kelasto (Lastenhoidon tukien saajat kuukauden lopussa) #kotihoidontuki #varhaiskasvatus
Kuviossa esitetään kotihoidon tuen saajien määrän muutos vuodesta 2007 vuoteen 2022 (saajien määrä vuoden lopussa). Vuonna 2007 saajia oli vuoden lopussa 60553 ja vuonna 2022 saajia oli 36633.
February 7, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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Our article on early education vouchers shows how vouchers affected the share of public day care ⬇️ and subsidized private day care (used with of private day care allowance) ⬇️, but not the number of private day care centres.

English summary of our article (in Finnish):
www.julkari.fi/handle/10024...
ENGLISH SUMMARY Ville Ruutiainen & Tapio Räsänen: Between universalism and the market model. How the introduction of the early childhood education voucher has affected the early childhood education system (Universalismin ja markkinamallin välissä. Varhaiskasvatuksen palvelusetelin käyttöönoton vaikutuksia varhaiskasvatusjärjestelmälle) In Finland, responsibility for the provision of early childhood education and care services (ECEC) lies with municipalities. However, municipal authorities can decide to produce these services themselves or purchase them from the private sector. They can negotiate contracts with private service providers, or grant vouchers or supplements to the private day care allowance paid out by Kela. Since the 2010s, private ECEC provision has increased considerably following the decision of many municipalities to grant these demand-side subsidies. The subsidy systems and ways of ECEC provision differ from each other. While public ECEC can be seen as representing a universal service system, demand-side subsidies, vouchers and the private day care allowance are shifting ECEC provision towards a more market-based system. This study uses register data to examine the dynamics between different ways of providing ECEC services by researching how the introduction of a voucher system in municipalities impacts the use and supply of public ECEC services and the use of the private day care allowance. The results show that the introduction of the service voucher has affected the share of public services and private day care allowance, but not the number of private day care centres. In addition, the size of the municipality and the age of children are related to the impact. Keywords: early childhood education and care, marketization, privatization, public subsidies, universalism, register data.
February 3, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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Viisi tuntia myöhemmin ☕
Kuva pullasta lautasella ja Cafetoria Espresso 7 kahvista keltaisessa espressokupissa
January 30, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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Alla kuviona: aloitusvaiheessa sairauspäivien määrä voi tuplaantua, mutta vähenee muutamassa kuukaudessa
Figure shows the average number of sick days per month after day care entry. Immediatedly after entering day care, the share increases from 4-5 days to 10 approximately 2 days per months, and the decreases back to 4-5 days per month. Figure description text reads: Figure 2 Means and 95% CIs (dashed lines) of sick days per month according to daycare groups in relation to start of daycare. Negative months denote the period prior to start of daycare. Horizontal lines indicate the shortest time for a significant rise (decline) from the last month prior to starting daycare (from the peak month).
January 28, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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Tutkimus olikin Suomesta. Jotenkin tuli ruotsalaiset mieleen, kun näitä tietoja lyhyistä sairaspoissaoloista ei saa Suomen aineistoista. Lapsen kodin ulkopuolisen hoidon aloittamisen yhteys vanhempien poissaoloihin olikin vain n. 1 päivä/kk. Ks. myös kuvio 2 ja 3:

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January 28, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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We interact the model and demonstrate that "always-taker" mothers (who would choose home care regardless of the benefit level) have the highest child penalty in earnings while "never-taker" mothers (who do not react to the instrument) have the shortest childcare leaves and smallest penalty.
The event-study figure highlights highest line for mothers as never-takers and lowest line as always-takers. Never-takers have gained 5 pp higher monthly earnings after 10 years relative to before first childbirth. Always-takers have lost 10 pp when compared to monthly earnings before first childbirth.
January 16, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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The paper demonsrates that employed women who had shorter than average child care leaves are more likely to catch up to men in monthly earnings. Employed women who have longer childcare leaves than their peers have the highest child penalty in monthly earnings.
Figure shows event-study coefficients for employed men and average employed women in the sample. After 10 years, employed women are 10pp behind men in monthly earnings. When the sample is split by childcare leave relative to peers, women who had longer than average childcare leaves have lower earnings. Women who had shorter than average childcare leaves have, on average, smaller penalties than average employed women.
January 16, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Does #EconSky need another child penalty paper? Professor Eva Österbacka's and my contribution to this topic in the European Journal of Population

We compare earnings of mother's to their peers when they return to workplace by duration of childcare leave
Title of the paper and abstract: Childbirth has consequences for mothers’ labour market outcomes which in turn has consequences for gender differences in pay. In the Finnish context, earnings-related parental leave can be extended with home care allowance which enables mothers to choose their childcare leave length with varying benefit levels. We empirically test the importance of choice of childcare leave length for the subsequent child penalty. We apply Finnish register data with information on the length of childcare leave at the individual and workplace levels. By using workplace comparisons, we can account for some of the endogeneity in choices of workplace, parity, and childcare leave length. By instrumenting the leave length with varying home care allowance levels, we categorise always-takers, never-takers, and compliers. We find that the child penalty is heterogeneous and highly related to the choice of leave length. Always-takers use longer leaves than the workplace average and are penalised, while never-takers use shorter leaves than the workplace average and experience only a mild child penalty. Compliers adjust their leave lengths to the allowance level and experience child penalties in between. These results support that self-selection of childcare leave length has implications for post-birth outcomes and in addition, that family policy can affect the child penalty and the gender gap in pay.
January 16, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Uusi blogi lapsiperheiden pienituloisuudesta. Vuoden 2024 sosiaaliturvan muutokset saattoivat lisätä lapsiperheiden pienituloisuutta sekä toimeentulotuen tarvetta

tietotarjotin.fi/tutkimusblog...
Kuviossa esitetään mistä muutoksista tulojen pieneneminen vuodesta 2022 vuoteen 2024 johtuu esimerkkiperheissä. Työttömyysturva muutokset pienentää tuloja ja elatustuen sekä lapsilisän muutokset suurentaa
January 8, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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Visited Harvest Cafe and Bakery in Rotterdam during the ESPE 2024 conference in June this year - highly recommend! #coffee
Coffee table and parasol facing a canal
November 20, 2024 at 6:20 AM