My recent publications include the following:

POOR PROTECTION: THE ROLE OF TAXES AND SOCIAL BENEFITS IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD DURING CRISES. Edited by Maria Jouste, Ravi Kanbur, Jukka Pirttilä, and Pia Rattenhuber. OUP, forthcoming.

‘The effects of a risk-based approach to tax examinations Evidence from Tanzania’, with A. Ebrahim et al. Forthcoming, International Tax and Public Finance.

‘The Tax Elasticity of Formal Work in Sub-Saharan African Countries‘, with A. McKay and C. Schimanski. Journal of Development Studies, 60, 217-244.  (2024)

‘Promoting education under distortionary taxation: Equality of opportunity versus welfarism’, with P Haaparanta, R Kanbur, T Paukkeri, and M Tuomala.  Journal of Economic Inequality. (2022)

‘Screening through activation? Differential effects of a youth activation programme’, with C Hall, K Kotakorpi and L Liljeberg.  Journal of Human Resources, 57, 1033-77. (2022)

‘The determinants of redistribution around the world’, with M. Jäntti and R. Rönkkö. Review of Income and Wealth 66, 59-73 (2020).

‘How do small firms respond to tax schedule discontinuities? Evidence from the South African tax registers‘, with W. Boonzaaier, J. Harju and T. Matikka.  International Tax and Public Finance 26(5), 1104-1136 (2019).

‘The effect of the value-added tax on inequality and revenues‘, with with Kaisa Alavuotunki and Mika Haapanen. Journal of Development Studies, 55:4, 490-508  (2019).

‘Quantifying the Impacts of Expanding Social Protection on Efficiency and Equity: Evidence from a Behavioral Microsimulation Model for Ghana’, with R. Osei and P. Rattenhuber,  International Journal of Microsimulation 12(1) (2019). 

‘Estimating labour supply elasticities using cross-country micro data: A bridge between micro and macro estimates?’, with Markus Jäntti and Håkan Selin, Journal of Public Economics 127, 87-99.  (2015)