Seminars

1. Research
2. Seminars

We organize seminars for researchers on Wednesdays from 10 to 11 a.m. The seminars are held either in the seminar room (Economicum, Arkadiankatu 7, 4th floor), in hybrid format, or via Teams. You can see how the event is arranged from the seminar title. The research presentations at the seminar mainly consist of ongoing research projects, and the purpose of the seminar is to discuss and comment on questions related to the research. The presentations made in the seminars are not intended for publication.

FORTHCOMING

2026

19.8. Atte Pudas (Aalto University): Having It All? Gender Differences in Inventor Careers (hybrid).

Abstract: Can women truly “have it all” — an ambitious career, partner, and children — or are trade-offs inevitable? I examine this question among patent inventors, a group characterized by lucrative careers and a stark underrepresentation of women, using patent records linked to Finnish register data and a matched-control event-study design. I find that the financial returns to patenting are broadly similar across genders in absolute terms, and even larger for women in relative terms. Yet, the career costs fall disproportionately on female inventors, taking the form of delayed childbearing, a persistent gap in cumulative fertility, and a substantial decline in inventive productivity after childbirth. Male inventors show no evidence of such career–family trade-offs. My findings suggest that the larger trade-offs, rather than weaker financial incentives, help explain women’s underrepresentation in innovation.

PAST SEMINAR

• 14.1. Lotta Lintunen (HY): Changing choices? Primary and secondary effects through times of educational contraction.
• 21.1. Sami Jysmä (Labore): Estimating the Effects of Firm Size-Based Regulation: A New Approach and Evidence from a Payroll Tax Notch.
• 28.1. Juha Kilponen (Bank of Finland): Elämää rahaliitossa | Yhteisestä rahasta kohti valtioiden liittoa?
• 4.3. Jani Kuhakoski (Labore): Information Provision and Lifelong Learning: Evidence from Two Field Experiments.
• 8.4. Anni Koskinen (Finnvera): From Risk to Exports: The Firm-Level Effects of Public Credit Guarantees.
• 13.5. Vesa-Matti Heikkuri (TUNI): Source Decomposition of Inequality Revisited.
• 20.5. Ilkka Kiema (Labore): Modelling Policy Change in Endogenous Growth Theory.
• 27.5. Hideo Owan (Waseda University, Tokio): Personality Traits and Career Success: Understanding Workplace Dynamics.