2026年国际足联世界杯讲座信息

时间：2026年3月11日13:30—15:00

地点：科研楼1115

主讲人：Benoit Pierre Freyens, 堪培拉大学教授

题目：Compatibility in personalities and non-cognitive skills, problem gambling and relationship dissolution in Australia

主讲人简介：

Ben is Professor of Economics at the University of Canberra. He was Head of the School of Government at the Faculty of BGL over 2021 – 2025 and is on a sabbatical stay in Zhejiang, China over 2025-26. He teaches mostly economics and international business units, usually at MBA level. His research interests are varied but include applied labour market economics, the economics of radio spectrum allocation (theory and practice), the measurement of inequality and poverty, the economics of disaster recovery, social capital as an economic resource, and agricultural/farming 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 or multidisciplinary journals such as Review of Economics and Statistics, The ILR Review, Information Economics and Policy, 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 Q1 journal International Journal of Disaster Risk Recovery and will be a guest editor for the Australian journal Economic Record in 2026. In his earlier working life, he was a statistical expert at the European Commission in Luxemburg, and later taught economics at Deakin University, UNSW, UOW and at the ANU.

Abstract: 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 analysis 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.