We study a mixed hitting-time (MHT) model that specifies durations as the first time a Levy process - a continuous-time process with stationary and independent increments - crosses a heterogeneous threshold.
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.
This report describes a scoping study to understand more about the nature of the 'costs of compliance' that claimants of social security benefits and (personal) tax credits incur, and discusses possible ways of measuring such costs.
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.
This Briefing Note aims to document the course of average living standards, and those of particular subgroups in society, during the previous three UK recessions.
Previous analysis suggests that some children in households with low income do not have commensurately low living standards. This report aims to document the extent to which this is true.
This study examined why young people from poor families have lower attainment in school, are more likely to become NEET (Not in Education, Employment or Training) after compulsory education, and are more likely to participate in a range of risky behaviours whilst teenagers.
