 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
Linda Richardson
Kitty Stewart
Presentation given at the Public Economics Lecture, November 2012 in Oxford and Cambridge
Choosing the place of care: the effect of patient choice on treatment location in England, 2003-2011
This report forms part of research to establish a long-term expertise in the use of competition and market mechanisms in health care – both in the NHS in England and internationally.
This report is the fifth wave of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing, a survey of people of 50 and over in England.
Paper given at the ELSA Wave 5 Launch at the Royal Society
This report discusses why the government might want to intervene to reduce obesity, and what policy instruments are available.
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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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