Tapio Räsänen
Senior Researcher, Social Insurance Institution of Finland, Kela. Helsinki

Work +358 20 634 1789
tapio.rasanen@kela.fi
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Hi, welcome to my homepage! I’m a senior researcher at the Social Insurance Institution of Finland, Kela, and a Ph.D. in economics from Jyväskylä University School of Business and Economics. I also work as a project research in FLUX (Family Formation in Flux – Causes, Consequences and Possible Futures) at Åbo Akademi University.
My research interests include family policies and their (sometimes unintended) effects. For example, how parental leaves and childcare subsidies affect families’ choices. I also study how childbirth affects earnings, the wage gap between women and men, and gender differences in the labor market.
BlueSky here: tapiorasanen.bsky.social
Research fields and interests:
- Labour, Family and Population Economics
- Health Economics
- Public Economics
Contact me at tapio.rasanen@kela.fi