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What's the future of corporation tax?
podcast
Corporation tax was introduced 60 years ago. Despite many predictions of its decline, it is now forecast to raise record amounts. 
10 April 2025
Spring Statement 2025: IFS Zooms In
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27 March 2025
The Schools Bill: what's changing and why?
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The bill aims to improve education and social care for children. But will it work?
11 March 2025
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IFS Annual Lecture: Trade Wars and the Future of Globalisation
conference 20 May 2025
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From Sure Start to Family Hubs: how can evidence best inform policymaking for joined up family support in the early years?
conference 22 May 2025
This event will explore the evidence and policy landscape around early years family support. It will also mark the launch of a new report from IFS.
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Health and social care

This work analyses the financing, organisation and the demand for health and social care. It studies how much the UK spends on health and social care, specific policies that affect the delivery of care, workforce issues, health inequalities and a wide set of determinants of demand for health and social care in the UK and in low and middle income countries.

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Scottish Budget: Tax and spending in 2024–25

Report

The Scottish Government is raising taxes on the 5% highest-income Scots, but health funding is, on current plans, set to fall in real terms next year.

6 February 2024

Scottish Budget: The medium-term outlook and choices

Report

Devolved income tax revenues are forecast to boost the Scottish Government’s funding over the next five years, but many services could still see cuts.

6 February 2024

Understanding Society: health, biomarker and genetic data

Journal article Fiscal Studies

Understanding Society, the UK Household Longitudinal Study includes a wide range of health measures, and in particular biomarker and genetic data.

2 February 2024

Ethnic diversity of NHS doctors

Report

How does the ethnicity mix of NHS doctors compare with wider populations? How does it differ by seniority, gender, specialty and country of training?

22 January 2024

A coefficient of variation for ordered categorical data: Analyzing relative health inequality and ageing in the UK and relative human resource inequality and gender in Canada

Working Paper

The rise of ordinal data in empirical sciences calls for location and variation measurement instruments suitable for such data environments.

21 December 2023

Cost-sharing in medical care can increase adult mortality: Evidence from Colombia

Working Paper

To our knowledge, this study is the first to show a relationship between cost-sharing and adult mortality risk in a low- or middle-income country.

6 December 2023

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Autumn Statement 2023

Collection

All our IFS analysis of Chancellor Jeremy Hunt's Autumn Statement 2023.

22 November 2023

Is there really an NHS productivity crisis?

Comment

It is difficult to measure NHS productivity. But the available evidence strongly suggests that the NHS is less productive now than pre-pandemic.

17 November 2023

Dementia incidence trend in England and Wales, 2002–19, and projection for dementia burden to 2040: analysis of data from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing

Journal article The Lancet Public Health

We examined dementia trends in England and Wales from 2002 to 2019, addressing bias and non-linearity, with limited post-2010 data.

30 October 2023

The effect of reducing welfare access on employment, health, and children's long-run outcomes

Working Paper

We find substantial and heterogeneous employment responses that increased average income despite reduced transfers.

30 October 2023

IFS Green Budget 2023

Collection

All the analysis from our IFS Green Budget 2023, funded by the Nuffield Foundation and in partnership with Citi.

17 October 2023

The outlook for government and council funding

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This presentation to Scottish voluntary organisations looks at the funding outlook and issues facing the Scottish Government and councils.

5 October 2023

The effects of pension reforms on physician labour supply: Evidence from the English NHS

Working Paper

We examine labour supply responses of senior doctors following a pension reform that moved NHS staff from a final salary to career average pension.

29 September 2023

Time to scrap the English NHS Bursary

Comment

The NHS bursary is a needless subsidy for high-earning former medical students. Now would be an excellent time to scrap it.

14 September 2023

Intergenerational mobility in the UK

Report

Your parents’ income and wealth is of ever-growing importance in determining your own position in the lifetime income distribution.

7 September 2023

Implications of the NHS workforce plan

Report

The NHS workforce plan aims for a large expansion in health service staffing. We examine the potential implications for NHS funding.

30 August 2023

Disability, illness and pain are real problems for the entire economy

Comment

"Tackling them should be near the top of any list of social and economic priorities." Paul Johnson writes in the Times.

28 August 2023

Parental labour market instability and children's mental health during the pandemic

Working Paper

In this paper we study the impact of the COVID pandemic on the mental health of school-age children in England.

1 August 2023

The costs of obesity - an update

Report

Policies that aim to reduce the prevalence of obesity have been high on the policy agenda for many years.

13 July 2023

Need, funding and geographic inequalities

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This LGA 2023 Annual Conference presentation discusses some key issues with how public service spending is allocated across England.

5 July 2023

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