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Milla Nyyssölä
Research Associate
Milla Nyyssölä has a PhD in economics with research experience in poverty, vulnerability and inequality, behavioural economics, development aid and household data collection in Mozambique. Previously, she has worked at Aalto University, UNU-WIDER and at the Social Insurance Institution of Finland. She has also designed and evaluated experiments at the Demos Helsinki Think Tank. Her research interests include sustainable livelihoods, behavioural development economics, tax-benefit microsimulation models, policy analysis and gender.
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7555 km and beyond: Working together to achieve the SDGs'It was great to have enough time to discuss each paper. I received useful and frank feedback. The topics are relevant for everyone...
Workshop
Joint research project on sustainable development in Tanzania — Research review workshop
News
Women and Girls in Science 2020 campaignVideo of Women in Science - With Simone Schotte On 11 February the world celebrated the International Day of Women and Girls in Science . UNU-WIDER, along with other institutes across United Nations University, are taking this day of celebration a...
Blog
Randomized control trials – why they deserve the Nobel and what should happen next
This year’s Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded to Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, and Michael Kremer for their experimental approach — randomized control trials (RCTs) — to alleviating global poverty...
Development Economics Nobel PrizeProject workshop
2019 SOUTHMOD workshop
Project workshop
A new collaborative project between UNU-WIDER and UONGOZI Institute
Project
Sustainable development solutions for Tanzania - strengthening research to achieve SDGs
Theme: Current programme
Sustainable Development Goals Sustainable development Research institutesProject
SOUTHMOD - simulating tax and benefit policies for development
Theme: Inclusion
Taxation Social protection Income distributionJournal Article
Technology Adoption and Food Security in Subsistence Agriculture: Evidence from a Group-Based Aid Project in MozambiqueThis paper evaluates the impact of an intervention to improve farming techniques and food security in the Gaza area of rural Mozambique...
Agriculture Food security Technological innovationsJournal Article
Poverty and Welfare Measurement on the Basis of Prospect TheoryPart of Journal Special Issue Poverty, Development, and Behavioral Economics
Equality and inequality Poverty Measurement (Poverty)Working Paper
Poverty and Welfare Measurement on the Basis of Prospect TheoryThis paper examines the measurement of social welfare, poverty and inequality taking into account features that have been found to be important welfare determinants in behavioural economics...
Equality and inequality Poverty Welfare economicsWorking Paper
Helping Poor Farmers to Help Themselves: Evidence from a Group-Based Aid Project in MozambiqueThis paper evaluates the impact of an integrated rural development programme on farming techniques and food security in the Gaza area of rural Mozambique...
Agriculture, Cooperative Economic development Food supplyBlog
The Macroeconomic Management of Foreign AidTony Addison, Tseday Mekasha, Milla Nyyssölä, Lucy Scott, Finn Tarp, Tuuli Ylinen To meet development objectives, aid recipients and their donor partners need to effectively manage the macroeconomic effects of aid...
Economic assistance and foreign aid Economic development Structural adjustment (Economic policy)Blog
Understanding Life in Poverty Milla Nyyssölä Behavioural economics, an approach combining the insights of psychology and economics, is coming to the fore in development economics...
Economic development Households PovertyWorking Paper
Women’s Status and Child Labour in NepalThis paper uses data from the Nepal Living Standards Survey 2 (2003/2004) to find evidence to whether children are less likely to work and more likely to attend school in a household where the mother has a say in the intra-family decision-making, tha...
Children Education Households