This paper explores whether new mother’s marital expectations are associated with their baby’s father’s economic characteristics, and how such expectations shaped subsequent entry into marriage. Data are from unmarried couples in the Fragile Families Study, corrected with...

The highly publicized accounting scandals of the recent past seriously damaged the credibility of the accounting profession. In an effort to restore public confidence in the capital markets, the US Congress passed the Sarbanes‐Oxley Act of 2002. A central theme of this new law is the attempted...