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Are you prepared for retirement?

Event 9 September 2014 at 15:00 <p>12 Great George Street, Parliament Square,&nbsp;London,&nbsp;SW1P 3AD</p>
At this event, IFS researchers will draw together the conclusions of a number of pieces of work carried out over the last three years, which shed light on how financial preparedness for retirement differs across cohorts and important differences within cohorts.
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Holy cows or cash cows?

Working Paper

This paper considers the income generated by cow or buffalo in the district of Anantapur, India and shows how drought affects returns.

22 July 2014

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Poverty

Presentation

This presentation was given at the IFS Briefing 'Poverty and Inequality in the UK: 2014'

15 July 2014

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Living standards and inequality

Presentation

This presentation was given at the IFS Briefing 'Living standards, poverty and inequality in the UK: 2014 '

15 July 2014

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Household incomes stabilised in 2012–13

Comment

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has today published its annual statistics on the distribution of household income in the UK. The latest data cover years up to and including 2012–13. This observation briefly highlights some of the key findings from DWP’s report.

1 July 2014

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Efficient Responses to Targeted Cash Transfers

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estimate and test the restrictions of a collective model of household consumption, using z-conditional demands, in the context of a large conditional cash transfer program in rural Mexico. The model can explain the impacts of the program on the structure of food consumption.

1 February 2014