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Panu Poutvaara publication distribution in Political Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Political Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Panu Poutvaara sits on this spectrum.

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36 publications 333+

This scientist: 183 publications — 75th percentile

75% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 333 publications or more.

Panu Poutvaara D-index placement in Political Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Political Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Panu Poutvaara sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 40 D-Index — 77th percentile

77% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 62 D-Index or more.

Overview

Panu Poutvaara is affiliated with Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München in Germany. Their research spans social sciences, with a strong focus on sociology, political science, and economics. The scientist's work predominantly examines migration and labor dynamics, refugee integration, and related social and economic issues.

The main fields of study for Poutvaara include:

  • Social Sciences

Subfields within their research profile cover:

  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Economics and Econometrics
  • Political Science and International Relations
  • Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
  • General Economics, Econometrics and Finance

Their research topics feature a range of focused areas such as:

  • Migration and Labor Dynamics
  • Migration, Refugees, and Integration
  • Environmental and Biological Research in Conflict Zones
  • Labor Market and Education
  • Economic Issues in Ukraine
  • Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
  • Migration, Health and Trauma

Among recent publications are the following papers:

  • "Refugees' and irregular migrants' self-selection into Europe" (2021, Journal of Development Economics)
  • "First Time Around: Local Conditions and Multi-dimensional Integration of Refugees" (2020, SSRN Electronic Journal)
  • "Public attention and policy responses to COVID-19 pandemic⋆" (2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory))
  • "Public sector outsourcing" (2020, IZA World of Labor)
  • "Public Attention and Policy Responses to COVID-19 Pandemic" (2020, SSRN Electronic Journal)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Poutvaara include:

  • Joop Adema
  • Cevat Giray Aksoy
  • Yvonne Giesing
  • Felicitas Schikora
  • Till Nikolka

Poutvaara has published multiple works in the following venues:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • AEA Randomized Controlled Trials
  • European Journal of Political Economy
  • Journal of Development Economics
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Best Publications

  • The looks of a winner: Beauty and electoral success

    Niclas Berggren;Henrik Jordahl;Panu Poutvaara

  • Immigration and electoral support for the far-left and the far-right

    Anthony Edo;Yvonne Giesing;Jonathan Öztunc;Panu Poutvaara

  • Faces of politicians: Babyfacedness predicts inferred competence but not electoral success

    Panu Poutvaara;Henrik Jordahl;Niclas Berggren

  • Pay for politicians and candidate selection: An empirical analysis

    Kaisa Ilona Kotakorpi;Panu Poutvaara

  • Immigration, Search and Redistribution: A Quantitative Assessment of Native Welfare

    Michele Battisti;Gabriel Felbermayr;Giovanni Peri;Panu Poutvaara

  • Student Flows and Migration: An Empirical Analysis

    Axel Dreher;Panu Poutvaara

  • Self-Selection of Emigrants: Theory and Evidence on Stochastic Dominance in Observable and Unobservable Characteristics

    George J Borjas;Ilpo Kauppinen;Panu Poutvaara

  • Public and Private Education in an Integrated Europe: Studying to Migrate and Teaching to Stay?

    Panu Poutvaara

  • The right look: Conservative politicians look better and voters reward it

    Niclas Berggren;Henrik Jordahl;Panu Poutvaara

  • Candidate quality

    Panu Poutvaara;Tuomas Takalo

  • Educating Europe: Should Public Education be Financed with Graduate Taxes or Income-contingent Loans?

    Panu Poutvaara

  • Bitterness in life and attitudes towards immigration

    Panu Poutvaara;Max Friedrich Steinhardt

  • Social security incentives, human capital investment and mobility of labor

    Panu Poutvaara;Panu Poutvaara

  • Foreign students and migration to the United States

    Axel Dreher;Panu Poutvaara

  • Candidate quality

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  • Public Education in an Integrated Europe: Studying to Migrate and Teaching to Stay?

    Panu Poutvaara

  • Hooliganism in the shadow of the 9/11 terrorist attack and the Tsunami: do police reduce group violence?

    Panu Poutvaara;Mikael Priks;Mikael Priks

  • The Looks of a Winner: Beauty, Gender and Electoral Success

    Niclas Berggren;Henrik Jordahl;Panu Poutvaara

  • MILITARY DRAFT AND ECONOMIC GROWTH IN OECD COUNTRIES

    Katarina Keller;Panu Poutvaara;Andreas Wagener

  • Unemployment and Gang Crime: Could Prosperity Backfire?

    Panu Poutvaara;Mikael Priks

  • On Human Capital Formation with Exit Options: Comment and New Results

    Panu Poutvaara

  • Why to Invest in your Neighbor? Social Contract on Educational Investment

    Panu Poutvaara;Vesa Kanniainen

  • Promises, policies and pocketbook voting

    Mikael Elinder;Mikael Elinder;Henrik Jordahl;Panu Poutvaara

  • To draft or not to draft? Inefficiency, generational incidence, and political economy of military conscription

    Panu Poutvaara;Andreas Wagener

  • THE EXPANSION OF HIGHER EDUCATION AND TIME-CONSISTENT TAXATION

    Panu Poutvaara

  • Returns to Office in National and Local Politics: A Bootstrap Method and Evidence from Finland

    Kaisa Kotakorpi;Panu Poutvaara;Marko Terviö

  • Refugees' and irregular migrants’ self-selection into Europe

    Cevat Giray Aksoy;Panu Poutvaara

  • The effect of police intelligence on group violence: Evidence from reassignments in Sweden

    Panu Poutvaara;Mikael Priks

  • Conscription: Economic Costs and Political Allure

    Panu Poutvaara;Andreas Wagener

  • Citizens should vote on secession

    Essi Eerola;Niku Määttänen;Panu Poutvaara

  • Why is the public sector more labor-intensive? A distortionary tax argument

    Panu Poutvaara;Andreas Wagener

  • Imperfect Transmission of Tacit Knowledge and Other Barriers to Entrepreneurship

    Panu Poutvaara;Vesa Kanniainen;Vesa Kanniainen

  • Rent taxation and its intertemporal welfare effects in a small open economy

    Marko Köthenbürger;Panu Poutvaara

  • Initial Luck, Status-Seeking and Snowballs Lead to Corporate Success and Failure ∗

    Amihai Glazer;Vesa Kanniainen;Panu Poutvaara

Frequent Co-Authors

Morten I. Lau
Morten I. Lau Copenhagen Business School
Gabriel Felbermayr
Gabriel Felbermayr Austrian Institute of Economic Research
Amihai Glazer
Amihai Glazer University of California, Irvine
Axel Dreher
Axel Dreher Heidelberg University
Paola Profeta
Paola Profeta Bocconi University
George J. Borjas
George J. Borjas Harvard University
Erkki Koskela
Erkki Koskela University of Helsinki
Giovanni Peri
Giovanni Peri University of California, Davis
Tuuli Lappalainen
Tuuli Lappalainen Royal Institute of Technology
Jussi Taipale
Jussi Taipale University of Cambridge

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