Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a serious, widespread problem that negatively affects women's lives, including their economic status. The current study explored whether the financial harm associated with IPV begins as early as adolescence. With longitudinal data from a sample of 498 women currently or formerly receiving welfare, we used latent growth curve modeling to examine the relationshi...

Groups that are often treated separately in studies of earnings inequality -women and minorities -are included in a general decomposition of sources of such disparity among fulltimelfull-year labor force participants. In order to consider several possible sources of earnings inequality, a new decomposition is developed that allows semilog earnings models to be decomposed into inequality factors...

In this research, we investigate the role of alternative IT innovation strategies (systematic, opportunistic, and non-IT innovation) on earnings persistence. Building on agility theory we argue that systematic IT innovation leads to sustainable value creation and ability to recover from negative earnings and recession. Using a sample of large US firms we find that good (bad) performance of syst...

International comparisons have identified several unique features of the Japanese labor market and its impact on earnings, namely tenure and firm-size effects, and the similarity in the structure of earnings between blueand white-collar workers. One feature which has received relatively less attention is that the rate of return (ROR) to college education in Japan is lower in comparison to her W...

Accurate projections of lifetime earnings are useful in projecting Social Security benefits, trust fund balances, and economic resources of the elderly and the effects of changes in Social Security policy. This article projects lifetime Social Security earnings until retirement using data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) matched to Social Security records of annual ear...

This paper examines the consequences of Financial Reporting Quality (FRQ) on Corporate Performance, using three proxies of FRQ: (i) earnings quality; (ii) conservatism; and (iii) accruals quality. Our purpose is to analyze the effect of a good FRQ on financial performance (FP) measured by the market to book ratio. To this end, the proposed hypotheses are tested on an unbalanced sample of 1, 960...

This paper projects lifetime Social Security earnings until retirement using data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) matched to Social Security records of annual earnings from 1951 through 1993. We first develop, estimate and test gender-specific multiple regression models of ten-year earnings intervals using the matched 1984 SIPP panel. We find strong relationships pred...

A recent study by Hong and Kazperczyk (2005) finds that sin stocks – publicly-traded stocks in the gaming, tobacco, and alcohol industries are neglected by the stock market despite generating abnormal stock returns. We examine a rational explanation for their findings. Are the excess returns and investor neglect of sin stocks attributable to higher levels of information risk arising from poor f...