But economists Kasey Buckles and Daniel Hungerman at the University of Notre Dame may have uncovered an overlooked explanation for why season of birth matters.

但美国圣母大学(University of Notre Dame)经济学家巴克尔斯(Kasey Buckles)和亨格曼(Daniel Hungerman)可能揭露了出生季节关乎命运的一个被人们忽略的解释。

Their discovery challenges the validity of past research and highlights how seemingly safe assumptions economists make may overlook key causes of curious effects. And they came across it by accident.

他们的发现对以往研究的可靠性提出了挑战，并显示出经济学家做出的看上去很可靠的假定可能忽略了一些奇特效应的关键原因。他们有此发现也是出于偶然。