This presentation was delivered at the Queen's International Institute on Social Policy, Kingston, Ontario.

Raising revenue to pay for the proposals suggested by the Dilnot Commission on Funding of Care and Support offers an opportunity for the government to rationalise the tax and benefit system for those above State Pension Age, Paul Johnson, the director of the IFS, will say at a seminar on social care funding today.

Made to Pensions Research Network, University of Westminster 22 June 2012

Presented at Queen's University, Belfast. At a meeting about establishing a new Northern Irish ageing study (known as NICOLA)

Presented at the Economics Conference at Essex University May 2012 and at Statistical and Econometric Developements in Survival Analysis (Manheim) June 2012

We use these data and earlier ELSA waves first to document the effect of the crisis on the finances of those aged 50 and over in England, and second, to estimate the effect of wealth shocks on household consumption and individual expectations of the future.