Ossi Tahvonen

I am a PhD student in Economics in University of Helsinki. My main fields of interest are Health and Labour Economics, with special interests on a) mental health and b) individual debt problems.
I visited the Department of Economics at University College London in fall 2023. You can find my CV here. If you wish to send me electronic mail, you can do that at ossi.tahvonen@helsinki.fi.

Research

Publications

Gender Inequality Reinforced: The Impact of a Child's Health Shock on Parents' Labor Market Trajectories. Demography 1 August 2023; 60 (4): 1005–1029. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00703370-10828906. With Maria Vaalavuo and Henri Salokangas SocArXiv version

Works in progress

Debt burden of job loss in a Nordic welfare state. Working Paper here With Ohto Kanninen, Hannu Karhunen and Terhi Maczulskij
Optimal debt enforcement: A sufficient statistics approach With Ohto Kanninen, Hannu Karhunen, Terhi Maczulskij and Terhi Ravaska
The Long-term effects of long-term psychotherapy With Torsten Santavirta