 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
João Santos Silva and Frank Windmeijer
The demand for certain types of health care services depends on decisions of both the individual and the health care provider.
In this paper we use the two waves of the British Retirement Survey (1988/89 and 1994) to quantify the relationship between socio-economic status and health outcomes.
Carl Emmerson, Christine Frayne and Alissa Goodman
The private health care sector forms a relatively small part of the system of health care in this country, but its importance has grown in recent decades.
R. Bottazzi, Matt Sutton, Hugh Gravelle, Stephen Morris, Alastair Leyland, Chris Dibben and Mike Muirhead
R. Bottazzi, Eric De Laat and Rudy Douven
Michaela Benzeval, Jayne Taylor and Ken Judge
The government's report, <i>Opportunity for All: Tackling Poverty and Social Exclusion</i> (Department of Social Security, 1999), identified poor health as one of the major problems associated with low income.
This paper presents a life cycle model for the demand for health, and derives empirical specifications that distinguish between permanent and transitory wage responses.
Carl Emmerson, Christine Frayne and Alissa Goodman
This commentary examines the role of both the public and private sectors in delivering healthcare in the UK. How does the UK compare with other countries? What is the role of private finance in the delivery of healthcare? What variations in NHS quality are seen across the UK? How much additional pressure is there likely to be on the NHS budget in future as a result of an ageing population?
Carl Emmerson, Christine Frayne and Alissa Goodman
This presentation was given at the launch of the Commentary, Pressures in UK Healthcare: challenges for the NHS.
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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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