Welcome

I am a lecturer (assistant professor) at the Adam Smith Business School at the University of Glasgow. I work in Labor Economics with a focus on the Economics of Crime. I am also a research affiliate at CESifo and IZA.

Contact:
Email: martti.kaila(at)glasgow.ac.uk

Work in progress:

The Impacts of Guaranteed Basic Income on Crime Perpetration and Victimization with Mikko Aaltonen and Emily Nix Revise and Resubmit Journal of Labor Economics

The Global Gender Gap in STEM Applications: Pipeline vs. Choice with Isaac Ahimbisibwe, Adam Altjmed, Georgy Artemov, Aspasia Bizopoulou, Martti Kaila, Jin-Tan Liu, Rigissa Megalokonomou, José Montalbán, Christopher Neilson, Jintao Sun, Sebastián Otero, and Xiaoyang Ye

The Crime Ladder: Estimating the Impact of Different Punishments on Defendant Outcomes with Kristiina Huttunen and Emily Nix

Punishment Thresholds, Perceptions, and Learning with Daniel Hauser and Xiaogeng Xu

Income-Based Fines: Evaluating Rationales for Finnish Speeding Penalties with Aaron Payne

Publications:

How Do People React to Income-Based Fines? Evidence from Speeding Tickets Discontinuities Conditionally accepted The Review of Economic Studies , Sir Alec Cairncross Prize Runner-Up at the 2024 Annual Conference of the Scottish Economic Society

Punishing Financial Crimes: The Impact of Prison Sentences on Defendants and Their Colleagues with Kristiina Huttunen, Dave Macdonald and Emily Nix Forthcoming American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

The Impact of an Early Career Shock on Intergenerational Mobility with Emily Nix and Krista Riukula Journal of Labor Economics, Vol. 43 Number 4 (October 2025)