Helsinki GSE Discussion Papers

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Helsinki GSE Discussion Papers

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  • Effect of Secondary Education on Cognitive and Non-cognitive Skills

    Jani-Petteri Ollikainen, Tuomas Pekkarinen, Roope Uusitalo, and Hanna Virtanen

    We exploit admission cutoffs to secondary schools to study the effects of general academically oriented, versus vocational secondary schooling on cognitive and non-cognitive skills using a regression …

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  • Parental Education and Invention: The Finnish Enigma

    Philippe Aghion, Ufuk Akcigit, Ari Hyytinen, and Otto Toivanen

    Why is invention strongly positively correlated with parental income not only in the US but also in Finland which displays low income inequality and high social mobility? Using data on 1.45M Finnish …

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