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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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  • Childhood Gender Nonconformity and Gender Gaps in Life Outcomes

    Abigail R. Banan, Torsten Santavirta, and Miguel Sarzosa

    We study the role of childhood gender conformity in generating gender gaps. We present a conceptual framework that uses gender norms to explain why some women make less profitable choices than …

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  • Planning for Family Succession

    Ciprian Domnisoru and Robert A. Miller

    Sons succeed their exiting CEO parents more often than daughters. How do entrepreneurial families reach this gender imbalance, and how does it affect the prospects of their firms and their offspring? …

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