报告题目：Compatibility in personalities and non-cognitive skills, problem gambling and relationship dissolution in Australia（人格和非认知技能的匹配性、问题赌博与亲密关系破裂）
报告人：Ben Freyens（澳大利亚堪培拉大学）
报告时间：2025年7月14日（星期一）上午10:00-11:30
报告地点：商学院405会议室
邀请部门：经济学系、中澳MBA项目部

报告人简介：
Ben Freyens (PhD Economics, 2008, Research School of Economics, The ANU, Australia) is Professor of Economics at the University of Canberra. He was the Head of the School of Government over 2021 – 2025. His research interests includes law and economics, employment protection, the economics of radio spectrum allocation, the measurement of inequality and poverty, disaster recovery, housing markets, social capital, safety research and agricultural policy. He has conducted several research projects for the Australian Communications and Media Authority on optimal spectrum licensing and radio transmission technologies. His research has been published in leading economics journals such as Review of Economics and Statistics, Information Economics and Policy, The ILR Review, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Journal of Public Economic Theory, Telecommunications Policy, and in IEEE publications (engineering). He has been a guest editor for the journal International Journal of Disaster Risk Recovery. In his earlier working life, he was a statistical expert for the European Commission, and later taught economics at Deakin University, UNSW, UOW and at the ANU.

报告摘要：
The dissolution of marital and cohabiting relationships affects the wellbeing of individuals and has profound implications for society. Compatibility between partners has always been an important factor for such relationships to yield returns (which economists frame in terms of production complementarities and household consumption, which in turn determine the stability of relationships). Partners’ addictive behaviours such as problem gambling tend to have detrimental effects on relationships, but robust quantitative evidence is scant. In this paper we investigate how relationship stability is affected by the match in partners’ personalities (measured by the Big-Five traits), non-cognitive skills (locus of control), and by the risks of engaging in problem gambling.  We analyse 11,617 relationship episodes and 29,149 birth episodes within these relationships for 10,827 women residing in Australia. The sample is constructed retrieving the history of these women from 20 waves of the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey. We model relationship and birth processes simultaneously with a joint duration model featuring non-parametric duration dependence, time-varying covariates, and unobserved heterogeneity. We also investigate how matching (or mismatching) in the characteristics of couples such as ethnicity, education, and age may affect the duration of relationships.