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Implicit Promises and the Timing of Defined‐Benefit Pension Plan Freezes

Financial Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Firms time defined‐benefit (DB) plan freezes after CEO turnovers to protect CEO retirement benefits from cost cuts affecting the wider workforce. We document a significant increase in voluntary CEO turnovers just before the freeze, without notable post‐freeze changes.
Zacharias Petrou, Adamos Vlittis
wiley   +1 more source

Unobserved Factors Linking Functional Decline and Depression Among the Oldest Americans [PDF]

This study considers the dependence between functional decline and depression in a nationally representative sample of older Americans from the Survey on Assets and Health Dynamics among the Oldest Old (AHEAD) covering the years from 1993 to 2002 ...
Obrizan, Maksym
core   +1 more source

The Spillover Effect of Media Ownership on Mainstream Media Discourse

Financial Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article investigates the spillover effect of a firm's media ownership on reporting by unaffiliated mainstream media outlets, using a sample of Chinese publicly listed firms. We find that firms with ownership stakes in media companies receive more coverage and more positive tones from unaffiliated mainstream media outlets than other firms ...
Xin Yu, Shijun Guo, Robert Faff
wiley   +1 more source

Comparing indigenous and scientific (Palin test) soil fertility assessment approaches for better soil health monitoring, management, and farm decision-making in Uganda

Discover Soil
This paper evaluated the accuracy of indigenous soil fertility assessment approaches commonly used by smallholder farmers in comparison to scientific soil testing to determine better performing indigenous approach for soil fertility assessment.
Sarah Elaete, John Ilukor, Rosemary Emegu Isoto, Alex Moruleng, Henry Nakelet Opolot   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Exploring drivers of land use/land cover transformations in Goang watershed Ethiopia: Integrating local community perceptions with remote sensing data

Environmental Challenges
Land use/land cover (LULC) changes driven by human activities are major environmental challenges in many developing regions. This study assessed local community perceptions and household-level drivers of LULC change in northwest Ethiopia.
Getahun Sisay, Berhan Gessesse, Meseret Kassie, Belaynesh Kebede, Celia Herrero de Aza   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Bayesian Model of Sample Selection with a Discrete Outcome Variable: Detecting Depression in Older Adults [PDF]

Depression as a major mental illness among older adults has attracted a lot of research attention. However, the problem of sample selection, inevitable in most health surveys, has been largely ignored.
Maksym Obrizan
core  

Three years of remote electrical neuromodulation (REN) acute treatment for migraine shows consistent effectiveness and no tachyphylaxis phenomenon

Headache: The Journal of Head and Face Pain, EarlyView.
Abstract Objective The current study aimed to evaluate the remote electrical neuromodulation (REN) wearable device over 3 years, assessing the potential for tachyphylaxis, consistent effectiveness, overall utilization patterns, and safety. Background Migraine is a highly prevalent chronic neurological disease, especially during peak years of ...
Stephanie J. Nahas, Marius Birlea, Alit Stark‐Inbar, Sharon Shmuely, Eden Mama, Alon Ironi, William B. Young, Alan M. Rapoport   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Do Caring Services Affect Off-Farm Work? Evidence from Italy [PDF]

The article investigates the determinants of the off-farm work decision in Italian farm households, highlighting the role of caring services. Assuming that the household simultaneously decides over the optimal allocation of time of each of its members, a
Parodi, Giuliana, Salvioni, Cristina, Sciulli, Dario   +2 more
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A multiple imputation method for incomplete correlated ordinal data using multivariate probit models

Communications in Statistics - Simulation and Computation, 2015
The multiple imputation technique has proven to be a useful tool in missing data analysis. We propose a Markov chain Monte Carlo method to conduct multiple imputation for incomplete correlated ordinal data using the multivariate probit model. We conduct a thorough simulation study to compare the performance of our proposed method with two available ...
Zhang, Xiao, Li, Quanlin, Yang, Xiaowei, Zhang, Kui, Cropsey, Karen, Belin, Thomas   +5 more
openaire   +1 more source

Search and Inventory in Over‐the‐Counter Markets

International Economic Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We investigate the sources of the dealer centrality premium in the over‐the‐counter market for corporate bonds. We model dealer heterogeneity by allowing the dealer's status in the network to determine search effort and inventory costs when choosing to conduct riskless principal or principal trades.
Evan Dudley, Hongfei Sun, Chengjie Diao
wiley   +1 more source