Tapio Räsänen

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

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tapio.rasanen@kela.fi

** Homepage under update 27.1.2025 **

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

selected publications

  1. Back to work or stay at home? Family policies and maternal employment in Finland
    Eva Österbacka, and Tapio Räsänen
    Journal of Population Economics, Jul 2022
  2. Subsidizing private childcare in a universal regime
    Tapio Räsänen, and Eva Österbacka
    Review of Economics of the Household, Mar 2024
  3. The Importance of Self-Selection and Childcare Leave Length for Child Penalty
    Eva Österbacka, and Tapio Räsänen
    European Journal of Population, Jan 2025
  4. Universalismin ja markkinamallin välissä
    Ville Ruutiainen, and Tapio Räsänen
    Yhteiskuntapolitiikka, Jan 2024