Krista Riukula

I am a Senior Researcher at ETLA Economic Research and a Research Fellow at IZA@LISER and RFBerlin, and affiliated with Helsinki GSE. I received my Dr. Sc. in Economics from Aalto University School of Business in 2018. I taught Labor Economics I at Aalto University in Spring 2026 and am scheduled to teach the course again in 2027.

My research interests include applied microeconomics, labour economics, human capital development, health economics, and urban economics.

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Peer-reviewed publications

Who Gains from Agglomeration? The Wage, Productivity, and Cost Effects of Transport Improvements on Firms and Workers with T. Väänänen
Accepted at Transport Policy
Childhood Shocks and Fertility: Evidence from Parental Job Loss
Accepted at Journal of Population Economics
The Impact of an Early Career Shock on Intergenerational Mobility with M. Kaila and E. Nix
Journal of Labor Economics (2025)
Empirical Strategies and Data Requirements for Estimating Labour Market Impacts of Transport Projects with T. Väänänen
Journal of the Finnish Economic Association (2025)
Preference for sons: Still a trend? Evidence from individual-level data from Finland, 1960–2015
Review of Economics of the Household (2024)
Parental job loss and children’s career choices with K. Huttunen
Labour Economics (2024)
Best article published in Labour Economics in 2024
The Costs of Job Loss and Task Usage: Do Social Tasks Soften the Drop? with A. Kauhanen
Empirical Economics (2024)
Decentralized Wage Bargaining and Health with M. Haapanen, A. Kauhanen, and T. Maczulskij
Economics and Human Biology (2024)
The Incidence and Effects of Decentralized Wage Bargaining in Finland with A. Kauhanen and T. Maczulskij
Journal of Labor Research (2024)
The Effects of Screening for Gestational Diabetes
Empirical Economics 65, 1931–1964 (2023)
Gender differences in multiple choice questions and the risk of losing points
Journal of the Finnish Economic Association 1, 35–45 (2023)

Working papers

The Effect of Regional Supply of Education on Schooling Choices and Educational Attainment with H. Virtanen

Work in progress

Gender Equality Bargaining: Evidence from Finland with A. Kauhanen
Stay Home and Stay Married? The Effect of Child Home Care Allowance on Marital Stability
Information Alone Is Not Enough: Randomized Trials of Lifelong Learning Interventions for Low-Educated Adults with A. Kauhanen, H. Karhunen, J. Kuhakoski, T. Suhonen, and H. Virtanen
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Selected publications and policy reports in Finnish

Kannustaako koulutustiedon jakaminen kouluttautumaan? Kirjepostikokeilun ja hakevan toiminnan pilotin loppuraportti with H. Karhunen, A. Kauhanen, J. Kuhakoski, T. Suhonen, P. Vanhala, and H. Virtanen
Kasautumisen vaikutus tuottavuuteen: Työpaikkojen välisen saavutettavuuden vaikutus toimipaikkoihin ja työntekijöihin with T. Haapamäki, O. Harjunen, A. Kauhanen, V. Kuivalainen, N. Valmari, and T. Väänänen
Selvitys tehokkaan tiheyden mittarista with P. Blomqvist, A. Kauhanen, and H. Metsäranta
Kasautumisvaikutusten arvioinnin menetelmät liikennejärjestelmän kehittämisen vaikutustarkastelussa with T. Haapamäki, A. Kauhanen, S. Laakso, H. Metsäranta, M. Ojanperä, and T. Väänänen
Liikennehankkeiden työmarkkinavaikutusten arviointikehikko – ehdotus with A. Kauhanen and H. Metsäranta
Liikennejärjestelmän työmarkkinavaikutukset ja niiden arviointi with H. Metsäranta, A. Kauhanen, and P. Fornaro