Publications Database

Welcome to the new Schulich Peer-Reviewed Publication Database!

The database is currently in beta-testing and will be updated with more features as time goes on. In the meantime, stakeholders are free to explore our faculty’s numerous works. The left-hand panel affords the ability to search by the following:

  • Faculty Member’s Name;
  • Area of Expertise;
  • Whether the Publication is Open-Access (free for public download);
  • Journal Name; and
  • Date Range.

At present, the database covers publications from 2012 to 2020, but will extend further back in the future. In addition to listing publications, the database includes two types of impact metrics: Altmetrics and Plum. The database will be updated annually with most recent publications from our faculty.

If you have any questions or input, please don’t hesitate to get in touch.

 

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Moshe A. Milevsky, Marcos Velazquez (2024). "Pensions and Protestants: or Why Everything in Retirement Can’t Be Optimized", Annals of Actuarial Science.

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Abstract We document a statistically significant relationship between a region’s pension plan rankings or funding ratios and the fraction of the region’s population identifying as Protestant Christians (PC). We begin the analysis at the national level using a well-known pension quality index and then obtain similar results for the actuarial funded status of US state pension plans, which serves as an out-of-sample test. This work is related to the very old and (in)famous hypothesis by Max Weber on the “Protestant work ethic” but, more broadly, is consistent and within the sphere of recent scholarship and literature that indicates religion matters for financial economic outcomes.