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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 …
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) …
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 …
Many auctions and procurement contests entail nontrivial bidding costs, which makes the bidders’ participation decisions endogenous to the auction design. We analyze the effect of different auction …