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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 half of the gender gap in …

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  • Optimal Tax Administration and Redistributive Policy

    Sebastián Castillo Ramos and Jukka Pirttilä

    Redistributive policies are crucial in tax design but are often overlooked when examining optimal tax administrative policies to fight tax evasion. This paper extends the Keen and Slemrod (2017) …

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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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