Study Abroad: Benefits, Concerns, Who Goes and Why?

Bilateral arm training: why and who benefits?

Bilateral arm training has emerged as an approach that leads to positive outcomes in addressing upper extremity paresis after stroke. However, studies have not demonstrated improvements in all patients using current outcome measures. Furthermore, the rationale for using this type of training has been incompletely explained. The purpose of this article was to first review the theoretical justifi...

Why Are Taxes so Complex and Who Benefits?

Michelle J. White is Professor of Economics at the University of Michigan. This paper is a revised version of a paper prepared for delivery to the 1988 Internal Revenue Research Conference. Research support was provided by the Law and Social Science and Economics Programs of NSF under grant number SES-8812763. The author expresses gratitude to Richard Lempert, Joel Slemrod, Suzanne Scotchmer, a...

Who Goes There?

respond preferentially to complex sounds (e.g., bandOur understanding of the visual system has benefited pass noise or species-specific vocalizations) relative to markedly from the hypothesis that visual processing tones. In contrast, neurons in the core region respond occurs in two separate streams—one for what (or who) preferentially to tones relative to complex sounds. It is and one for wher...

Medicare reform: who pays and who benefits?

As Medicare's share of federal spending and gross domestic product (GDP) rises, the program may have increasingly important consequences not only for the health of Americans but also for their net income and financial well-being. We use incidence analysis to study payments and benefits in Medicare to various generations and income groups. We find that Medicare actually provides larger net dolla...

Who goes there--friend or foe?