: Can the stock market actually distract workers? Here’s what one novel study finds.

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Can interest in the stock market be so high that workers’ day jobs are affected by it?

Perhaps. One recent study looked at the workers of a maker of paper cups in China. Hardly investment bankers or hedge-fund managers, these workers operate moulding and wrapping machines.

The study, by two professors at China’s Xiamen University, looked at…

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