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Why we need to reform inheritance tax
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We discuss the issues with inheritance tax and how to reform it.
6 December 2023
The Autumn Statement 2023 explained in 90 seconds
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Paul Johnson responds to Jeremy Hunt's 2023 Autumn Statement.
22 November 2023
Cake or biscuit? The UK's byzantine VAT system explained
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This week, we dive into the oddities of the VAT system.
16 November 2023
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Education spending: an engine for levelling-up?
event 11 December 2023
The launch of the 2023 IFS Annual Report on Education Spending in England, funded by the Nuffield Foundation.
Social mobility and wealth
conference 12 December 2023
At this in-person event, IFS researchers will share findings from ESRC-funded research on social mobility and its drivers.
Where next for the state pension?
event 13 December 2023
At this online event, IFS researchers will present findings from a major new report on the future of the state pension in the UK.
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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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Pay compression in the NHS (and beyond)

Comment

Since 2010, more experienced and higher-paid workers in the NHS have experienced the largest pay cuts. This has compressed the pay distribution.

1 June 2022

The Platinum Jubilee generation: how are they doing?

Comment

The Platinum Jubilee generation – those born as the Queen came to the throne – turn 70 this year. How have their lives changed during the Queen’s reign?

30 May 2022

Spring Statement: inflation, living standards and uncertainty

Podcast

We look at the Chancellor's Spring Statement and discuss how effective it is, and what the long-term implications are.

25 March 2022

Defence cuts effectively paid for a growing UK welfare state for 60 years – but that looks impossible after Ukraine

Report

IFS Senior Research Economist Ben Zaranko writes for The Conversation on how the UK's lower defence spending has allowed successive governments to pay for a growing welfare state without a higher tax burden.

8 March 2022

Maternity and the labour supply of NHS doctors and nurses

Report

We examine how contracted hours change after nurses and doctors return from maternity leave, and how this varies across NHS trust and specialty.

8 March 2022

Working patterns of doctors and nurses returning from maternity leave

Comment

We examine how contracted hours change after nurses and doctors return from maternity leave and how this varies across NHS trust and specialty.

8 March 2022

The NHS backlog recovery plan and the outlook for waiting lists

Comment

More than 6 million people are now on an NHS waiting list. This backlog is expected to rise further and won’t be cleared during this parliament.

11 February 2022

Does the cap fit: How do the proposed changes to the social care cap affect people’s protection from catastrophic costs?

Presentation

In September, the government announced that it was introducing a cap on the lifetime social care costs faced by individuals. At the event a joint IFS-Health Foundation report was presented that looks at the implications of this change.

8 February 2022

Does the cap fit? Analysing the government’s proposed amendment to the English social care charging system

Report

This briefing note considers the effects of the government’s proposed amendment to the Care Act, which would mean that means-tested support does not count for an individual’s progress towards the social care cost cap.

7 February 2022

Sanitation and credit constraints – The role of labelled microcredit in India’s Swacch Bharat Mission subsidy scheme

Working Paper

We provide rigorous evidence of the impacts of labelled microcredit on household sanitation investment and borrowing behaviour.

4 February 2022

Early stimulation and nutrition: The impacts of a scalable intervention

Journal article

In this paper, we assess a cluster-RCT intervention to enhance child stimulation in Colombia's FAMI parenting program.

28 January 2022

What you should be paying attention to in 2022

Podcast

As 2022 starts, we speak to four IFS experts and find out what we should be looking out for this year.

12 January 2022

Effect of health insurance in India: a randomized controlled trial

Working Paper

We report on a large randomized controlled trial of hospital insurance for above-poverty-line Indian households.

7 December 2021

Where are all the missing hospital patients?

Comment

Millions of people missed out on hospital care during the pandemic, but still haven’t come forward to join the waiting list. Where are they?

7 December 2021

Ethnicity inequalities in Covid disruption to hospital admissions

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Areas with larger ethnic minority populations experienced greater reductions in emergency admissions during the first ten months of the Covid-19 pandemic.

26 November 2021

Socioeconomic deprivation and ethnicity inequalities in disruption to NHS hospital admissions during the COVID-19 pandemic: a national observational study

Journal article

We sought to determine whether areas with higher levels of socioeconomic deprivation or larger ethnic minority populations saw larger falls in emergency and planned admissions in England.

25 November 2021

Health and social care: what are the challenges after COVID?

Presentation

What are the likely pressures on the NHS going forward - not just from COVID-19, but also from an ageing population? How much funding might be needed to meet these? And will the government's latest reforms really be enough to 'fix' social care?

22 November 2021