Helsinki GSE Discussion Papers

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Helsinki GSE Discussion Papers

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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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  • Markets, Contracts, or Firms? A Simple Model of Governance

    Tore Ellingsen and Topi Miettinen

    We build a simple formal model of governance. Investments and control rights over assets and labor are fully contractible, but final production decisions are ex ante uncontractible, and ex post …

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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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