Mika Kortelainen
Professor, Research Professor (THL), Vice-head of Department of Economics
mika.kortelainen@utu.fi +358 29 450 4818 +358 50 308 2642 ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7868-9651 |
Areas of expertise
Health economics, health care financing, effectiveness, cost-effectiveness, social and health care reform
Health economics, health care financing, effectiveness, cost-effectiveness, social and health care reform
Research community or research topic
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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.
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.
Teaching
Health economics, pharmaceutical markets, causal inference
Publications 
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- Effectiveness of clinical exome sequencing in adult patients with difficult-to-diagnose neurological disorders (2022)
- Acta Neurologica Scandinavica
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Effects of Nurse Visit Copayments: Does the Primary Care Use of the Poor Respond More? (2022) Haaga Tapio, Böckerman Petri, Kortelainen Mika, Tukiainen Janne
(Other publication) - The indirect effect of mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccination on unvaccinated household members (2022)
- Nature Communications
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - The Long-Run Effects of Cesarean Sections (2022)
- Journal of Human Resources
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Tohtoriksi terveystaloustieteestä Turussa – nyt se on mahdollista! (2022)
- InFLAMES Flagship Blog
(E1 Popularised article) - Etäopetuksen vaikutus koronatartuntoihin – Alustavia tuloksia (2021) Kortelainen Mika, Salo Jussipekka, Saxell Tanja, Sääksvuori Lauri, Valkonen Antti
(D4 Published development or research report or study ) - Hyvinvointialueiden rahoitusmallin kannustinvaikutukset (2021)
- Kansantaloudellinen Aikakauskirja
(B1 Non-refereed article in a scientific journal) - Koronapandemia ja mielenterveyserot eri sosioekonomisissa ryhmissä (2021) Kortelainen Mika, Hägg Milla, Saxell Tanja, Siikanen Markku, Sääksvuori Lauri, Valkonen Antti, Salo Jussipekka
(D4 Published development or research report or study ) - Koronatartuntojen ja sairaalahoidon riskien arviointi ammatti- ja tuloryhmissä (2021) Kortelainen Mika, Salo Jussipekka, Saxell Tanja, Siikanen Markku, Sääksvuori Lauri, Valkonen Antti
(D4 Published development or research report or study ) - Koronavirus ja terveyserot – Missä sosioekonomisissa ryhmissä koronatartuntoja on Suomessa havaittu eniten? (2021) Kortelainen Mika, Salo Jussipekka, Saxell Tanja, Siikanen Markku, Sääksvuori Lauri, Valkonen Antti
(D4 Published development or research report or study ) - Taloustieteen Nobel luonnollisten koeasetelmien kehittäjille ja hyödyntäjille (2021)
- Kansantaloudellinen Aikakauskirja
(A2 Refereed review article in a scientific journal ) - The indirect effect of mRNA-based Covid-19 vaccination on unvaccinated household members (2021) Salo Jussipekka, Hägg Milla, Kortelainen Mika, Leino Tuija, Saxell Tanja, Siikanen Markku, Sääksvuori Lauri
(Other publication) - Vieraskynä: Rokotusjärjestystä voitaisiin vielä hienosäätää kevään mittaan (2021)
- Helsingin Sanomat
(E1 Popularised article) - Attitudes towards genetic testing and information: does parenthood shape the views? (2020)
- Journal of Community Genetics
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - When does money stick in education? Evidence from a kinked grant rule (2020)
- Education Finance and Policy
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Yksilöllistettyä opetusta ennustavat tekijät ja suhteellisen iän vaikutus erityisopetuksessa (2020)
- Kansantaloudellinen Aikakauskirja
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Digital Waste? Unintended Consequences of Health Information Technology (2019) Petri Böckerman, Mika Kortelainen, Liisa T. Laine, Mikko Nurminen, Tanja Saxell
(Other publication) - Does admission to elite engineering school make a difference? (2019) Tiina Kuuppelomäki, Mika Kortelainen, Tuomo Suhonen, Hanna Virtanen
(D4 Published development or research report or study ) - Effectiveness of private and public high schools: Evidence from Finland (2019)
- CESifo Economic Studies
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Inefficiencies in the Financing of Finnish County Governments - Lessons from the Literature on Fiscal Federalism (2019) Mika Kortelainen, Simon Lapointe
(D4 Published development or research report or study )
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