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Marriage, Wealth, and the Spread of Cohabitation in Canada

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Research demonstrates a robust link between marriage and wealth. Wealth facilitates marriage, which then fosters wealth accumulation, resulting in significant net worth disparities between married and cohabiting couples. Does the decline of marriage and growth of cohabitation alter this relationship?
Maude Pugliese
wiley   +1 more source

Lagged effects of risk factors on the disability of older adults: A distributed lag non-linear model approach. [PDF]

Int J Nurs Sci
Mao Y, Guo Z, Gao W, Zhang Y, Jin J.
europepmc   +1 more source

Pension Funds under Investments Constraints: An Assessment of the Opportunity Cost to the Greek Social Security System

In this paper we study the opportunity loss of the Greek social security system in terms of risk and return, caused by the inflexible investment constraints under which Greek pension funds operated in the period 1958-2000.
Roupas, Theodor /A, Milonas, Nikolaos /T, Papachristou, George   +2 more
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Uncertainty and the price for crude oil reserves [PDF]

Innovations in futures, options, and derivative instruments permit active trading, speculating and hedging - linking markets for physical petroleum products with financial markets. These derivative markets continuously value petroleum delivered today and
Larson, Donald F., Considine, Timothy J.
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Why do Public Debates Escalate? Trigger Points and the Moral Dynamics of “Hot Politics”

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Escalating, emotionally charged, and moralized forms of controversy are a central feature of contemporary politics. Our study develops a framework for understanding how political debates between ordinary citizens become heated; why certain issues provoke particularly strong emotions; and how this affective potential is weaponized by ...
Linus Westheuser, Thomas Lux, Steffen Mau   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The predicament of rural middle-aged and older adults in preparing for active aging: a qualitative study. [PDF]

BMC Public Health
Yang M, Lu J, Cui Y, Liu Y, Wong TKS, Hu Y.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Partisan Cities: How State‐Local Political Alignment Shapes Credit Risk and Information Processing in the Municipal Bond Market

Journal of Accounting Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper studies how partisan alignment between city leaders and state governors shapes information processing and bond pricing in the municipal bond market. Using a novel data set on 1,045 U.S. cities from 2005 to 2019, we show that cities with the same political affiliation as the state governor face 9 basis points lower borrowing costs ...
RAMONA DAGOSTINO, ANYA NAKHMURINA
wiley   +1 more source

Healthy Lifestyle Behaviors of Adults Aged 95 Years and Above and Their Relationship with Geriatric Syndromes. [PDF]

Risk Manag Healthc Policy
Tuncer Ö, Asma Sakallı A, Öksüz S, Tekin N.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Administrative charges for funded pensions: An international comparison and assessment

Pension fund charges reduce the rate of return on pension accounts in some countries by up to by two percentage points. Do charges of this scale undermine the case for funded pension provision? How can governments hold back costs and charges?
Whitehouse, Edward
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Quid Pro Quo? Private Information Flows in Shareholder Activism: Evidence from Mutual Fund Families

Journal of Accounting Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper hypothesizes that information flows from target firms to large shareholders during activist campaigns and that these flows have governance consequences. Focusing on actively managed mutual fund families, we find that informed trading by large‐holding fund families increases during activist campaigns relative to smaller‐holding fund ...
EUNJEE KIM, HAI PHAM
wiley   +1 more source