We conduct a laboratory experiment to study how advice affects the gender gap in the entry into a real-effort tournament. Our experiment is motivated by the concerns raised by approaching the gender gap through affirmative action. Advice is given by subjects who have already had some experience with the participation decision. We show that advice improves the entry decision of subjects, in that...

Researchers who study violence against women often face problems when trying to understand the causes of individual changes in the context of group differences, targeted interventions, and institutional shifts. The authors explore these problems through research on the connections among women's earnings, welfare, and protection orders. The authors use multigroup, piecewise, latent growth curve ...

The effective tax on earnings embodied in the Social Security retirement earnings test has been as high as 50 percent. Despite numerous empirical studies, there is surprisingly little agreement about whether the earnings test affects male labor supply. In this paper, we provide a comprehensive analysis of the earnings test for men using longitudinal administrative earnings data and more commonl...

the purpose of this research is to investigate the relationship between earnings variabilityand earnings forecast using neural networks in companies listed on tehran stock exchange. theresearch is of the library and analytical-causal study type, and is based on panel data analysis andneural networks. in this research, financial information of 98 companies from 19 industries intehran stock excha...

The present study aims to investigate the impact of non-audit services on earnings response coefficient. It is a library and analytical-scientific research based panel data analysis. In this study, financial 74 companies accepted in Tehran Stock Exchange during period 2011-2016 have been reviewed.The results demonstrate that significant negative relationship with coefficient.Although will benef...

Using a proprietary database of institutional investors’ stock transactions, we examine whether transient institutions overreact to the announcement of small negative earnings surprises defined as quarterly earnings that fall short of analysts’ consensus forecasts by one cent. Transient institutions’ selling in response to the announcement of small negative earnings surprises is significant and...

Despite numerous empirical studies, there is surprisingly little agreement about whether the Social Security earnings test affects male labor supply. In this paper, we provide a comprehensive analysis of the labor supply effects of the earnings test using longitudinal administrative earnings data and more commonly used survey data. We find that the response to the earnings test in survey data i...