
Matti Sarvimäki
Associate Professor
Associate Professor
E703 Dept. Economics
Matti Sarvimäki is an 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.
Full researcher profile
Email
matti.sarvimaki@aalto.fi
Phone number
+358403045515
Honors and awards
Aalto Research Impact Award 2024
Aalto University's Research Impact Award 2024 for EDUCA - Education for the Future flagship team
Award or honor granted for a specific work
Department of Economics
Jan 2024
Best Reviewer Award, Labour Economics
Award or honor granted for a specific work
Department of Economics
Jan 2021
Best Referee Award, Journal of Economic Geography
Award or honor granted for a specific work
Department of Economics
Jan 2022
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
Course of the year: Taloustieteen perusteet (Principles of Economics)
The Courses and the Teachers of the Year 2019: Course of the year in Bachelor's programme (Kauppatieteen kandidaattiohjelma)
Award or honor granted for a specific work
Department of Economics
Mar 2019
Publications
Daron Acemoglu, Tuomas Pekkarinen, Kjell G. Salvanes, Matti Sarvimäki
2025
Journal of the European Economic Association
Hanna Pesola, Matti Sarvimäki
2024
REVIEW OF ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS
Samuli Knüpfer, Elias Rantapuska, Matti Sarvimäki
2023
Review of Finance
Laura Ansala, Olof Aslund, Matti Sarvimäki
2022
Journal of Economic Geography
Matti Sarvimäki, Roope Uusitalo, Markus Jäntti
2022
Journal of the European Economic Association
Stephen Gibbons, Henry Overman, Matti Sarvimäki
2021
Journal of Urban Economics
Dominik Hangartner, Matti Sarvimäki
2021
Journal of the Finnish Economic Association
Laura Ansala, Ulla Hämäläinen, Matti Sarvimäki
2020
Journal of Economic Geography
Sari Pekkala Kerr, Tuomas Pekkarinen, Matti Sarvimäki, Roope Uusitalo
2020
Labour Economics
Jari Haukka, Jaana Suvisaari, Matti Sarvimäki, Pekka Martikainen
2017
Epidemiology
Markus Jokela, Tuomas Pekkarinen, Matti Sarvimäki, Marko Terviö, Roope Uusitalo
2017
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Samuli KnÜpfer, Elias Rantapuska, Matti Sarvimäki
2017
Journal of Finance
Tuomas Pekkarinen, Kjell G. Salvanes, Matti Sarvimäki
2017
Scandinavian Journal of Economics
Matti Sarvimäki
2017
Nordic Economic Policy Review
Matti Sarvimäki, Kari Hämäläinen
2016
Journal of Labor Economics