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The spread of COVID‐19, and international measures to contain it, are having a major impact on economic activity in the UK. In this paper, we describe how this impact has varied across industries, using data on share prices of firms listed on the London Stock Exchange, and how well targeted government support for workers and companies is in light of this.

In this paper we discuss the value of international comparative empirical studies within the broad field of the economics of ageing. We argue the value is particularly great when such comparative research is based on long life-history data on participants, collected using large-scale autobiographical life-history methods.

In this paper, we present evidence on changes in assortative mating and its implications for household inequality in the UK.

Income inequality, as well as the impact of tax and benefit reforms on it, has typically been evaluated with respect to ‘snapshot’ incomes, measured over short periods such as one week or year.

Fiscal Studies - Special Issue: 50th Anniversary of IFS: Part 2

Paper in Quantitative Economics

There is substantial geographic heterogeneity in healthcare spending in Hungary. Labor income is positively associated with public healthcare spending. Positive relation between income and healthcare spending also exists within counties. Labor income is negatively associated with mortality.

Since 1995, police forces in England and Wales have been able to raise revenues locally to supplement grants from central government.

Slow growth over the last decade has prompted policy attention towards increasing R&D spending, often via the tax system.