under the new Family Member Appointment. This position allows them to begin accruing retirement credit. However, these individuals are not allowed to pay back into the FERS for time worked in PIT positions, As a result, many Foreign Service spouses who worked as a PIT between 1989 and 1998 have lost up to nine or ten years of retirement credit. Mr. Speaker, this is a matter of grave consequence...

This longitudinal study examined the extent to which dimensions of infant negative temperament in the first year predicted IQ at age 3, and whether these associations depended on the quality of the infant–mother attachment relationship. In a sample of 63 infant–mother dyads, mothers completed Rothbart's (1981) IBQ when infants were 4 and 12 months, mothers and infants participated in Ainsworth ...

Size matters in banking. In this paper, we explore whether shocks originating at large banks affect the probability of distress of smaller banks and thus the stability of the banking system. Our analysis proceeds in two steps. In a first step, we follow Gabaix (2005) and construct a measure of idiosyncratic shocks at large banks, the so-called Granular Residual. This measure documents the impor...

Older adults are at an elevated risk for suicide. A comprehensive framework for preventing older adult suicide should include knowledge about risk factors, a theoretical basis that explains the high prevalence of older adult suicide, and a transdisciplinary prevention strategy that shares responsibility for suicide prevention among professional and lay members of the community. The author intro...

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Alarm events occurring in telecommunication networks can be an invaluable tool for network operators. However, given the size and complexity of today’s networks, handling of alarm events represents a challenge in itself, due to two key aspects: high volume and lack of descriptiveness. The latter derives from the fact that not all alarm events report the actual source of failure. A failure in a ...

A growing body of research exploits social media behaviors to gauge psychological characteristics, though trait empathy has received little attention. Because of its intimate link to the ability to relate to others, our research aims to predict participants’ levels of empathy, given their textual and friending behaviors on Facebook. Using Poisson regression, we compared the variance explained i...

Using a large sample of Chapter 11 filings from 1996 to 2007 we find that the endogenously determined expected recovery derived from Leland and Toft (1996) has strong explanatory power on debt recovery observed in the market. Our results hold after firm characteristics, industry distress, and macroeconomic conditions are accounted for. In addition, we find that agency conflicts and ex post bank...