In this paper, we investigate the effect of shareholder activism on earnings management. Using a US sample of shareholder pay-for-performance proposals sponsored by institutional investors, we find that when compared to control firms, firms targeted by shareholder proposals have a greater...

This paper relaxes the single factor model of intergenerational educational mobility standard in the literature, and develops a research design to study the effects of parents' education and occupation on children's schooling. We use survey data from rural China that cover three generations and...