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Mika
Kortelainen
InFLAMES Flagship
Professor, Economics
Professor, Research Professor (THL), Vice-head of Department of Economics
InFLAMES Flagship
Areas of expertise
Health economics
health care financing
effectiveness
cost-effectiveness
social and health care reform
Biography
Mika Kortelainen is a professor of health economics at the University of Turku and a research professor at the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL). Previously, he has worked as a chief researcher at the VATT Institute for Economic Research and as a lecturer at the University of Manchester, UK. He is also a docent of economics at the University of Helsinki.
Teaching
Health economics, pharmaceutical markets, causal inference
Research
Mika Kortelainen's research fields include health economics, economics of education and applied microeconometrics. His ongoing research projects concern the effectiveness of information and digital technologies in healthcare and the impacts of the healthcare and pharmaceutical market reforms and interventions.
Publications
Improving Performance Through Allocation and Competition: Evidence from a Patient Choice Reform (2023)
(Julkaistu kehittämis- tai tutkimusraportti taikka -selvitys (D4))Information Technology, Improved Access, and Use of Prescription Drugs (2023)
(Julkaistu kehittämis- tai tutkimusraportti taikka -selvitys (D4))Syövän vaikutukset puolison tuloihin ja työllisyyteen (2023)
Sosiaalilääketieteellinen Aikakauslehti
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Long-Run Effects of Selective Schools on Educational and Labor Market Outcomes (2023)
(Julkaistu kehittämis- tai tutkimusraportti taikka -selvitys (D4))The Effects of Price Regulation on Pharmaceutical Expenditure and Availability (2023)
(Julkaistu kehittämis- tai tutkimusraportti taikka -selvitys (D4))The indirect effect of mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccination on unvaccinated household members (2022)
Nature Communications
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Effects of Nurse Visit Copayments: Does the Primary Care Use of the Poor Respond More? (2022)
(O2 Muu julkaisu )The Long-Run Effects of Cesarean Sections (2022)
Journal of Human Resources
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )
Do Low-Income Households Respond More to Cost Sharing in Primary Care? Evidence from Regression Discontinuity Design (2022)
(O2 Muu julkaisu )Cost-effectiveness of whole-exome sequencing in progressive neurological disorders of children (2022)
European Journal of Paediatric Neurology
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))