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SUMMARY:phd seminar - Karine Moukaddem*\, Tuna Abay**
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DESCRIPTION:*This paper examines the impact of socio-political uncertainty 
 on marriage markets\, focusing specifically on Muslim marital payments. Pre
 vious research shows how economic shocks influence marriage markets by alte
 ring marital transfers and matching patterns. However\, the role of Muslim 
 marital payments\, that are transferred diectly to the bride - prompt dowe
 r (paid by the husband upon marriage) and deferred dower (payable upon divo
 rce or widowhood) - remains underexplored. Using the Egyptian Arab Spring u
 prisings (2011-2014) as a case study\, I analyze how exposure to violent pr
 otests influenced these payments in a context characterized by limited inhe
 ritance rights for women and strong traditional norms governing marriage. I
  hypothesize that violent protests and regime changes disrupt traditional m
 arriage arrangements by heightening uncertainty and shifting perceptions of
  the risks associated with marriage\, especially for women. Leveraging a no
 vel dataset that harmonizes multiple waves of the Egypt Labour Market Panel
  Survey (2006\, 2012\, 2018)\, I employ both a difference-in-differences ap
 proach and an event-study\, to compare women married before and after 2011\
 , exploiting geographic variation in exposure to protest-related fatalities
 . The results reveal that while prompt dower remains unaffected\, increased
  exposure to deadly protests increases promised deferred dower for women ma
 rried after 2011\, particularly during the post-coup period of heightened s
 ocial polarization. This suggests that the instability and high death toll 
 during this period led to greater demand for financial protection against w
 idowhood\, a trend amplified by a decline in female educational attainment 
 during the revolution.**This preliminary paper investigates the diffusion o
 f firms across a technological space as a result of their directed research
  efforts. As a first step\, patent-matched Compustat data documents the inc
 rease in technological concentration among firms using patent portfolio sim
 ilarities. Next\, it shows a positive correlation between firm markups and 
 their technological similarities. Furthermore\, using a direct product simi
 larity measure\, the paper shows a robust positive relationship between mar
 kups and technological similarities\, which contrasts with the standard the
 ory of competition and markups. The paper proposes an alternative mechanism
  where this coincided rise in markups and technological concentration can b
 e explained by firms’ directed research efforts toward high markup-genera
 ting technologies. A preliminary sketch of the model\, in which firms dynam
 ically choose between different innovations\, provides insight into this po
 tential mechanism.\\n\\nContact: Philippine Escudié : philippine.escudie[
 at]univ-amu.frLucie Giorgi : lucie.giorgi[at]univ-amu.frKla Kouadio : kla.k
 ouadio[at]univ-amu.frLola Soubeyrand : lola.soubeyrand[at]univ-amu.fr\n\nP
 lus d'informations: https://www.amse-aixmarseille.fr/fr/evenements/karine-m
 oukaddem-tuna-abay
LOCATION:Îlot Bernard du Bois - Amphithéâtre\, AMU - AMSE\, 5-9 boulevar
 d Maurice Bourdet\, 13001 Marseille
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CONTACT:Philippine Escudié :&nbsp\;philippine.escudie[at]univ-amu.frLucie 
 Giorgi : lucie.giorgi[at]univ-amu.frKla Kouadio : kla.kouadio[at]univ-amu.f
 rLola Soubeyrand :&nbsp\;lola.soubeyrand[at]univ-amu.fr
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