Abstract We propose the visual attention hypothesis that visuals in firm earnings announcements increase to news. find firms’ Twitter are associated with more retweets, consistent greater user engagement have visuals. This result holds for tweets sent by same and on day firm-level tweet-level analyses. Consistent managerial opportunism, firms likely use their when performance is good but less p...

5. b. There are several reasons why your benefit might increase after you begin receiving it. First, you'll generally receive annual cost-of-living adjustments (COLA). Second, the Social Security Administration recalculates your benefit every year to account for new earnings, so your benefit might increase as a result. Your benefit might also be adjusted if you qualify for a higher benefit base...

A number of articles have explored analysts' earnings estimates, analysts' forecasting ability and the reaction of stock prices to earnings announcements. The concern of this paper is the group of stocks whose earnings announcements constitute positive "earnings surprise" given a consensus of analysts' expected earnings. The consensus derives from a twenty quarter, seasonally adjusted earnings ...

BACKGROUND The lasting impact of parents' socioeconomic status on their children's social trajectories and health is well-established, but do such intergenerationally transmitted inequalities persist also into the third generation? This study investigates the importance of parental and grandparental earnings for young men's body mass index (BMI) and cognitive ability at military conscription. ...

We propose covariate adjusted correlation (Cadcor) analysis to target the correlation between two hidden variables that are observed after being multiplied by an unknown function of a common observable confounding variable. The distorting effects of this confounding may alter the correlation relation between the hidden variables. Covariate adjusted correlation analysis enables consistent estima...

We consider covariate adjusted regression (CAR), a regression method for situations where predictors and response are observed after being distorted by a multiplicative factor. The distorting factors are unknown functions of an observable covariate, where one specific distorting function is associated with each predictor or response. The dependence of both response and predictors on the same co...

Tony Atkinson has produced a first-rate paper carefully documenting recent trends in the distribution of income and earnings in advanced industrial nations. He demonstrates the important point that there is considerable heterogeneity among Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) nations in both the level of economic inequality and in changes in the dispersion of income and ...