Income Trusts - Understanding the Issues

INCOME TRUSTS AND SHAREHOLDER TAXATION: GETTING IT RIGHT By

Understanding Preferences for Income Redistribution

We are grateful for funding under the Robock Award in Empirical Economics from the University of Wisconsin. Wei-Yin Loh provided invaluable advice on the implementation of the tree regression methods employed in this paper. Keely thanks WARF and the Brookings Institution for generous research support, and Brookings for their hospitality. Tan thanks the generous research support provided by the ...

Understanding medication compounding issues.

The potential for contamination of compounded products and the resulting infections are a serious threat to patient safety. Immediate use products are used frequently in the perioperative department, and perioperative nurses should be familiar with the guidelines and practices that aim to reduce the contamination that can occur during the sterile compounding process. Four common themes lead to ...

Design Rationale Systems: Understanding the Issues

IN THE LAST FEW YEARS, INTEREST in design rationales has grown. Design rationales are important tools because they can include not only the reasons behind a design decision but also the justification for it, the other alternatives considered, the tradeoffs evaluated, and the argumentation that led to the decision. The use of a design rationale system—a tool for capturing and making design ratio...

Who Trusts Others?

Both individual experiences and community characteristics influence how much people trust each other. Using individual level data drawn from US localities we find that the strongest factors associated with low trust are: (i) a recent history of traumatic experiences; (ii) belonging to a group that historically felt discriminated against, such as minorities (blacks in particular) and, to a lesse...