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Gubernatorial Re‐Election Incentives, Local Investment Bias, and Pension Fund Performance
Journal of Corporate Accounting &Finance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We investigate the impact of gubernatorial re‐election incentive and political factors on US public pension funds from 1990 to 2022. Our empirical analysis finds no significant overall relationship between gubernatorial re‐election incentives and local bias in the full sample.
Hongxian Zhang +3 more
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Imperfect Knowledge of Pension Plan Type [PDF]
This paper investigates the reasons for discrepancies between the pension plan type reported by respondents to the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) and pension plan type obtained from documents produced by their employers, called Summary Plan ...
Thomas Steinmeier +2 more
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Journal of Clinical Ultrasound, EarlyView.In children with presumptive tuberculosis, comprehensive point‐of‐care (cPOCUS) identified key thoracic abnormalities with high specificity and excellent inter‐reader reliability. Although diagnostic sensitivity was modest and examinations often incomplete, cPOCUS shows promise as a complementary, radiation‐free imaging tool.
Isabelle Munyangaju +17 more
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Public Pension Funding in Practice [PDF]
Public pension funding has recently become a front-burner policy issue in the wake of the financial crisis and given the pending retirement of large numbers of baby boomers.
Jean-Pierre Aubry +2 more
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Studying to Support? Exploring Remittance Responsibilities Among Black South African Graduates
Journal of International Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT A large majority of Black South Africans remain restricted by intergenerational education and economic disadvantages. Labour market returns to tertiary qualifications are high, but the share of youth accessing post‐secondary education remains low.
Emma Whitelaw +2 more
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Is Pension Inequality Growing?
Employer-sponsored pensions are an important source of retirement income and often make the difference between having a comfortable retirement and just scraping by. Over the past two decades, pension sponsorship and participation have remained relatively
Geoffrey Sanzenbacher, Nadia Karamcheva
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Should Public Retirement Plans be Fully Funded? [PDF]
Most state and local retirement plans strive for full funding, at least by actuarial standards. Funding measured at market values fluctuates and often falls short.
Henning Bohn
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Journal of Operations Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Recall delays expose consumers to prolonged risk and undermine a firm's long‐term performance and reputation. Building on agency theory's conceptualization of principal‐agent relationships, we theorize that large institutional investors play an important monitoring role wherein their ownership encourages faster recalls. We then build on agency
Jessica L. Darby +3 more
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Employee Valuation of Pension Claims and the Impact of Indexing Initiatives [PDF]
There is discussion in both Canada and the United States of the government's requiring private pension plans to provide contractual cost-of-living protection.
James E. Pesando
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Impact of severe periodontitis and diabetes mellitus on recurrent cardiovascular outcomes
Journal of Periodontology, EarlyView.Abstract Background This post hoc analysis of the Periodontitis and Coronary Heart Disease study (ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01045070) aimed to determine the association between diabetes and recurrent cardiovascular events (CVEs) in patients with cardiovascular disease (CVD) and severe periodontitis.
Stefan Reichert +3 more
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