Matti Sarvimäki

Matti Sarvimäki

Associate Professor
Associate Professor
E703 Dept. Economics

Matti Sarvimäki is Associate Professor of Economics at Aalto University and the Helsinki GSE, co-PI of the Education for the Future Flagship Center, and part-time Associate Research Professor at the VATT Institute for Economic Research. He is a labor economist whose research focuses on education, migration, and social mobility, sometimes in multidisciplinary collaborations.

Matti received his PhD from the Helsinki School of Economics in 2009. He has worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the London School of Economics and been a visiting scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and University College London.

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Honors and awards

Teacher of the Year

Award or honor granted for a specific work Department of Economics Jan 2018

Teacher of the Year, Aalto University Business Students Association (KY)

Award or honor granted for a specific work Department of Economics Jan 2021

Publications

The Making of Social Democracy : the Economic and Electoral Consequences of Norway's 1936 Folk School Reform

Daron Acemoglu, Tuomas Pekkarinen, Kjell G. Salvanes, Matti Sarvimäki 2025 Journal of the European Economic Association

Intergenerational Spillovers of Integration Policies: Evidence from Finland's Integration Plans

Hanna Pesola, Matti Sarvimäki 2024 Review of Economics Statistics

Habit Formation and the Misallocation of Labor: Evidence from Forced Migrations

Matti Sarvimäki, Roope Uusitalo, Markus Jäntti 2022 Journal of the European Economic Association

Secular rise in economically valuable personality traits

Markus Jokela, Tuomas Pekkarinen, Matti Sarvimäki, Marko Terviö, Roope Uusitalo 2017 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Formative Experiences and Portfolio Choice: Evidence from the Finnish Great Depression

Samuli KnÜpfer, Elias Rantapuska, Matti Sarvimäki 2017 Journal of Finance

Integrating immigrants

Matti Sarvimäki, Kari Hämäläinen 2016 Journal of Labor Economics