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作者：Rexer, Jonah M.
作者单位：Princeton University
摘要：Marriage markets in rural Nigeria are characterised by bride price and polygamy. These customs may diminish marriage prospects for young men, causing them to join militant groups. Using an instrumental variables strategy, I find that marriage inequality increases civil conflict in the Boko Haram insurgency. To generate exogenous shocks to the marriage market, I exploit the fact that young women delay marriage in response to favourable pre-marital economic conditions, which increases marriage i...
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作者：Dustmann, Christian; Fitzenberger, Bernd; Zimmermann, Markus
作者单位：University of London; University College London; University of Erlangen Nuremberg; Leibniz Association; Ifo Institut; IZA Institute Labor Economics; Humboldt University of Berlin
摘要：The trend of rising income inequality in Germany since the mid-1990s is strongly amplified when considering income after housing expenditure. The income share of housing expenditure rose disproportionally for the bottom income quintile and fell for the top quintile. Factors contributing to these trends include declining relative costs of homeownership versus renting, changes in household structure, declining real incomes for low-income households and residential mobility towards larger cities....
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作者：Farago, Adam; Holmen, Martin; Holzmeister, Felix; Kirchler, Michael; Razen, Michael
作者单位：University of Gothenburg; University of Innsbruck
摘要：We investigate the impact of cognitive skills and economic preferences on fund managers' professional decisions by running a battery of experiments with them. First, we find that fund managers' risk tolerance positively correlates with fund risk when accounting for fund benchmark, fund category and other controls. Second, we show that fund managers' ambiguity tolerance positively correlates with the funds' tracking error from the benchmark. Finally, we report that cognitive skills do not expla...
