Research and analysis

This briefing note reviews the evidence on the long-run pressures faced by maternity units from changes in the number of maternity admissions and the case mix.

The structure of this paper is as follows: Section 2 gives the background to the study and discusses some of the existing literature. We set out our methodology in Section 3, where we present an approach for comparing individual and county-level business cycle estimates. We describe the data in Section 4. The results are presented in Section 5. Section 6 concludes.

We study whether and how individuals protect energy intakes against income shocks and we find that households use substitution, both between and within spending categories. Total nutritional intakes are almost fully protected against income shocks and 12-16% of permanent income shocks on food spending is transmitted to energy intake.

Sleep problems, short sleep and a combination of both increase the risk of depressive symptoms in older people: a 6-year follow-up investigation from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing

Quasi-experimental study designs series – Paper 7: assessing the assumptions

Using recall and diary food expenditure data from Canada, we compare estimates of the household size elasticity of per capita food expenditure.

Does public transport use prevent declines in walking speed among older adults living in England? A prospective cohort study

Peer effects in risky choices among adolescents

Mobility and the lifetime distributional impact of tax and transfer reforms

This working paper looks at the impact of health on labor supply near retirement.

Divided by choice? Private providers, patient choice and hospital sorting in the English National Health service