Dr Elaine Kelly

Senior Research Economist

Elaine is a Senior Research Economist in the Public Finance and Pensions sector. She joined the IFS as a PhD Scholar in 2009 and became a member of the research staff in 2011. Elaine's research interests encompass the economics of health, healthcare and education. Past work has included the impact of maternal exposure to influenza on subsequent child development, and the responses of older people to the introduction of free bus travel. She currently works on projects relating to patient choice and the use of market mechanisms within the NHS, and on the issues surrounding risky behaviour amongst young people.

Education

PhD Economics, University College London, 2011

MSc (Distinction) Economics, University College London, 2006

BA (1st Class) Philosophy, Politics and Economics, University of Oxford, 2003

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    Social care and the COVID-19 pandemic

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    In this blog we explore how care homes fit into the wider system of adult social care in England, and why they appear particularly badly hit by the pandemic.

    3 July 2020

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    End-of-Life Medical Expenses

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    In this review, we document end-of-life medical spending: its level, composition, funding, and contribution to aggregate medical spending. We discuss how end-of-life expenses affect household behavior and economic evidence on the efficacy of medical spending at the end of life. Finally, we document recent trends in health and chronic disease at older ages and discuss what they might imply for end-of-life spending and medical spending in the aggregate.

    12 December 2018

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    How would you fund the NHS?

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    How would you fund the NHS? Use this tool to try and reach these projected funding “targets” through increasing taxes and / or by cutting government spending in other areas.

    25 June 2018

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    How good is the NHS?

    Book Chapter
    This is a chapter of The NHS at 70. To mark the BBC’s coverage of the NHS’s 70th birthday in July 2018, researchers from the Institute for Fiscal Studies, Health Foundation, The King’s Fund and the Nuffield Trust have come together for the first time, using combined expertise to shed light on some of the big questions on the NHS.

    25 June 2018