Jaana Kari received her PhD in Economics in 2018. Her research focuses particularly on health and labor economics, examining the role of health and health behaviors on educational and labor market outcomes. She has taught courses such as behavioral economics, mathematical economics, principles of economics, working life project in economics, Finnish economy and economic policy, empirical methods workshop, and responsible expert (I-III).
She has been on research visits to both Monash University (in 2019 and 2023) and Cornell University (in 2018).
My main research interests are health economics, economics of education, and labor economics. My research examines, among other things, the role of health and health behaviors in shaping educational outcomes, labor market trajectories, and healthcare costs. In my research, I apply microeconomic methods using cohort data linked to administrative registers from Statistics Finland.
