 Facts and figures about UK taxes, benefits and public spending.
Income distribution, poverty and inequality.
Analysing government fiscal forecasts and tax and spending.
Analysis of the fiscal choices an independent Scotland would face.
Case studies that give a flavour of the areas where IFS research has an impact on society.
Reforming the tax system for the 21st century.
A peer-reviewed quarterly journal publishing articles by academics and practitioners.
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Ian is a Research Fellow of IFS and a Professor of Economics at UCL. He joined UCL in 1991 and has been attached to the IFS since 1990. His research at IFS includes work on household welfare measurement and distributional analysis, consumption and demand behaviour, attitudes to public spending, political economy and the economics of immigration. 
All available publications
Tim Besley, Ian Preston and Ridge, M, January 1997,
Fiscal anarchy in the UK: modelling poll tax noncompliance,
Journal of Public Economics,
Vol. 64, pp.137-52,
Journal Articles
Tim Besley, John Hall and Ian Preston, January 1996,
The demand for private health insurance: do waiting lists matter?,
IFS Working Papers
, W96/07
Now published:
Tim Besley, John Hall and Ian Preston, May 1999,
The demand for private health insurance: do waiting lists matter?,
Journal of Public Economics,
Vol. 72, No. 2, pp. 15581, Journal Articles
, Elsevier
Tim Besley, John Hall and Ian Preston, January 1996,
Private health insurance and the state of the NHS,
Books
Ian Preston, Ian Crawford and François Laisney, January 1996,
Estimation of household demand systems using unit value data,
IFS Working Papers
, W96/16
John Hall, Ian Preston and Ridge, M, January 1996,
How public attitudes to expenditure differ,
in Public expenditure: effective management and control Institute for Public Policy Research,
Book Chapters
Brook, Lindsay, John Hall and Ian Preston, January 1996,
Public spending and taxation,
in British social attitudes: the 13th report Dartmouth,
Book Chapters
Tim Besley, John Hall and Ian Preston, January 1996,
Private health insurance and the state of the NHS,
IFS Reports
, C052
, 978-1-873357-52-1
Tim Besley, John Hall and Ian Preston, September 1995,
Substitutability of public and private health insurance : evidence from Britain,
Conference Papers
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