 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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Research in this area encompasses both healthcare systems and individual health. Work on healthcare systems focuses on the increased use of market mechanisms within the NHS. We examine the responses of patients, GPs, and other healthcare workers to market incentives, and the impacts upon recorded NHS activity and hospital outcomes.
Work on health has included: cross country differences in life-expectancy; the socioeconomic-health gradient, health and wellbeing amongst the older population; the effects of intra-uterine health shocks on childhood development; and, the relationship between drug enforcement and hospital admissions. Search
Mark Hamer, G. David Batty and Mika Kivimaki
This report, funded by the Nuffield Trust, examines what can be expected once the current unprecedented period of broadly flat NHS funding in real terms ends in 2014-15.
The period of relative austerity facing the NHS could run to a decade according to a new report that maps the longer term financial challenge facing the health service.
The NHS is experiencing its tightest financial period in more than 50 years, but there is unlikely to be much relief when the spending freeze ends in 2014/15.
In this video, Carl Emmerson, Deputy Director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, provides an outlook on the consequences of three different scenarios for NHS and social care funding over the next decade.
Orazio Attanasio, Emla Fitzsimons, Camila Fernandez, Sally Grantham-McGregor, Costas Meghir and Marta Rubio Codina
Presentation on Early Childhood Development 25th June 2012
Andrew Steptoe, Panos Demakakos, Cesar d'Oliveira and Jane Wardle
This is a summary of an intervention which we are investigating in an early child development project in Colombia.
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  IFS research has contributed to consultation with governments in developing countries on the design of health and welfare programmes.
In a tough economic climate IFS looks at how households are able to cope.
IFS researchers developed a cost-effective intervention to improve child development in Colombia.
IFS develops data on food prices and nutrition to build capacity for policy-relevant social science research.
This survey was among the first to use PDAs for data collection in rural Africa.
IFS researchers working in Malawi trained interviewers in the use of PDAs, helping to collect more complete and accurate information about people's lives.
IFS evaluated the Pathways to Work programme. This work proved key to the policy debate about how to get disability benefit claimants in work.
Research told policymakers that, despite greater expenditure on health care, Americans are less healthy than their English counterparts.
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