Jouko Verho

Jouko Verho

Chief Researcher, PhD (Econ.)

Social security Healthcare services Labour markets Centre of Excellence in Tax Systems Research

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Jouko Verho's research focuses on labor markets and public economics. His research topics include employment, social security and health economics, as well as policy evaluation.

He previously worked in the research department of the Social Insurance Institution of Finland and developed remote access to research data at Statistics Finland. He received his PhD in Economics from the University of Helsinki in 2008.

Selected articles

Hämäläinen, K., Simanainen, M. and Verho, J. (2025) Health effects of cash transfers: Evidence from the Finnish basic income experiment​​​​​​​. Journal of Public Economics, 250: 105480. Open Access.

Verho, J. and Harju, J. (2025) Copayments for prescription drugs: The drivers of demand responses​​​​​​​. Health Economics, 34(6): 1160-117.

Hämäläinen, K. and Verho, J. (2022) Design and evaluation of the Finnish basic income experiment. National Tax Journal, 75(3): 573-596.

Verho, J., Hämäläinen, K. and Kanninen, O. (2022)  Removing Welfare Traps: Employment Responses in the Finnish Basic Income Experiment. American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 14(1): 501-22. 

Saastamoinen, L. and Verho, J. (2021) Regional variation in potentially inappropriate medicine use in older adults. - A national register-based cross-sectional study on economic, health system-related and patient-related characteristics. Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy, 17(6): 1223-1227.

Verho, J. (2020) Economic crises and unemployment persistence: Analysis of job losses during the Finnish recession of the 1990s. Economica, 87(345): 190-216.

Kyyrä, T., Pesola, H. and Verho, J. (2019) The spike at benefit exhaustion: The role of measurement error in benefit eligibility. Labour Economics, 60: 75-83.

Almunia, M., Harju, J., Kotakorpi, K., Tukiainen, J., Verho, J. (2019) Expanding access to administrative data: The case of tax authorities in Finland and the UK. International Tax and Public Finance, 26(3): 661-676. Open Access.

Saastamoinen, L. and Verho, J. (2015) Register-based indicators for potentially inappropriate medication in high-cost patients with excessive polypharmacy. Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety, 24(6): 610-618.

Johansson, P., Pekkarinen, T. and Verho, J. (2014) Cross-border heath and productivity effects of alcohol policies. Journal of Health Economics, 36: 125-136.

Verho, J. (2014) Unemployment duration and the role of compositional variation: evidence from a period of economic crisis in Finland. Empirical Economics, 47: 35-56.

Research projects