Helsinki GSE Discussion Papers

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Helsinki GSE Discussion Papers

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  • Why Are There So Few Female Inventors?

    Atte Pudas

    Only a small fraction of inventors are women. Using Finnish administrative data linked to patent records, I show that educational and occupational sorting explain roughly 54% of the gender gap in …

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  • Commitment in Sequential Bargaining - An Experiment

    Nadine Chlaß and Topi Miettinen

    Schelling (1956) first clarified how power to reduce one’s freedom of choice might benefit a bargaining party. A commitment to reject proposals, when successful, may force concessions from opponents …

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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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