My recent publications include the following:

‘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). 

‘Optimal taxation and public good provision for poverty reduction‘, with R Kanbur, T Paukkeri and M Tuomala.  International Tax and Public Finance 25, 64-98 (2018).

‘Ghana: Poverty reduction over 30 years’, with Andy McKay and Finn Tarp. In Arndt, C., McKay, A. & Tarp, F. (2016) Growth and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa. WIDER Studies in Development Economics. Oxford University Press.

‘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)