Evidence suggests that while women are more likely to go to college than men, they are less likely to go to graduate school. Moreover, in fields like science and engineering, women who do pursue advanced degrees are less likely than men to complete them. This paper compares MBA completion rates for women and men who registered to take the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT). We find that ...

The following article, first published as Actuarial Study No. 99, describes the population projections that underlie the long-range cost estimates for the Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance (OASDI) program, which are included in the 1987 Report of the OASDI Board of Trustees. The projections start from a recent estimate of the population in the Social Security Area by age, sex, and ma...

The negative relationship between stock market P/E ratios and government bond yields seems to have become conventional wisdom among practitioners. However, limited empirical evidence and a misleading suggestion that the model originated in the Fed are used to support the model’s plausibility. This article argues that the Fed model is flawed from a theoretical standpoint and reports evidence fro...

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The ability to count ballots by computers allows us to design new voting schemes that are arguably fairer than existing schemes designed for hand-counting. We argue that formal methods can and should be used to ensure that such schemes behave as intended and are conform to the desired democratic properties. Specifically, we define two semantic criteria for single transferable vote (STV) schemes...

In the global trucking industry, vertical collaboration between shippers and carriers is attained by intermediaries, called brokers. Brokers organize for a shipper in accordance with its quality price requirements, support to collaborate horizontally sharing large distribution order from shipper. also act as trustees, preventing passing of private information any party others. Despite these ben...

Franklin H. North, "A New Profession for Women," Century Magazine, Nov. 18 82, p. 38. Almost one hundred years ago on January 1, 1889 the Cincinnati Training School for Nurses opened establishing a new profession for the women of Cincinnati. The impetus for the school did not arise from the hospital's medical staff or its trustees but instead from a group of prominent women in the city who, wit...