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Research at IFS touching on health encompasses health inequalities and their relationship with other types of inequality; public and private spending on health; and consumer behaviour, in particlar and the impact of indirect taxes on health-related behaviour such as smoking.

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Year: 82 publications
01 December 2009
Jerome Adda, James Banks and Hans Martin von Gaudecker
We study the effect of permanent income innovations on health for a prime-aged population.
01 November 2009
The Government is concerned that we are eating too much saturated fat.
23 September 2009
W09/17
This paper examines the impact of <i>in utero</i> exposure to the Asian influenza pandemic of 1957 upon physical and cognitive development in childhood.
20 July 2009
John Appleby, Rowena Crawford and Carl Emmerson
New analysis by researchers at the King's Fund and the IFS examines long-term trends in NHS funding, and sets out three plausible scenarios for spending going forwards and assesses their consequences for other spending departments, tax increases, and the NHS itself.
20 July 2009
John Appleby, Rowena Crawford and Carl Emmerson
Starting with a look at historical funding for the NHS, The King's Fund and the Institute for Fiscal Studies set out three plausible future funding scenarios and their consequences.
12 June 2009
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The tables in this paper present a description of the distribution of wealth amongst those aged 50 and over in England in 2002/3, with the analysis split by a series of different factors.
01 March 2009
Mauricio Avendano, Maria Glymour, James Banks and Johan Mackenbach
We compared the health of older US, English, and other European adults, stratified by wealth.
01 March 2009
This chapter is part of a volume which addresses the relationship between health and economic status, including why health behaviours vary across populations and how socioeconomic measures correlate with health outcomes.
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