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What Causes What
SMOKE0 NULL

Formal organizational power → Youth / fertility preference in partners

A rise in Formal organizational power does not identify a change in Youth / fertility preference in partners.

Command over people is not a separately identified cause of youth preference. It usually arrives with money.

Observational · Low

The association disappears when you account for other factors, like socioeconomic status or healthy-user bias.

Mechanism

Buss and Fisman do not randomize formal authority. Any raw power–preference link is entangled with income, age, and the rooms executives enter. Marked smoke until a design separates them.

Caveats

A clean identification would need a shock to rank that is not a shock to pay. We do not have one in the seed.

Effect

qualitative. Power and income are bundled in the folk story. The papers measure markets, not org charts.

Nodes

Socioeconomic statusFormal organizational powerPsychology & behaviorYouth / fertility preference in partners

Named confounders

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What Causes What. “Formal organizational power → Youth / fertility preference in partners.” https://whatcauseswhat.org/edges/e-power-youth-pref (atlas updated 2026-09-02).

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