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<p><p>This presentation was delivered at the IFS briefing 'Cash by any other name? evidence on labelling from the UK Winter Fuel Payment', 8 June 2011. </p></p>
Authors

Research Associate University of Minnesota


Research Fellow University of Michigan
Tom is a Research Fellow at IFS, a Research Professor for the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan.

Research Associate Yale University
Cormac is a Research Associate of the IFS, an Assistant Professor of Economics at the Yale University and Research Fellow at the NBER.
Presentation details
- DOI
- 10.1920/ps.ifs.2024.0968
- Publisher
- IFS
Suggested citation
Beatty, T et al. (2011). ''Cash by any other name? evidence on labelling from the UK Winter Fuel Payment' and 'Is there a heat or eat trade-off in the UK?'' [Presentation]. London: IFS. Available at: https://ifs.org.uk/publications/cash-any-other-name-evidence-labelling-uk-winter-fuel-payment-and-there-heat-or-eat (accessed: 3 November 2026).
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