Helsinki GSE Discussion Papers

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Helsinki GSE Discussion Papers

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  • Gender Differences
  • Patenting
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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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  • Skill-Related Differences in Reference-Dependent Stopping

    Marco Lambrecht

    This paper examines reference-dependent stopping in repeated risky decisionmaking and its relation to skill dependence and individual ability. Using field data from online heads-up poker tournaments, …

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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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