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Griffith, Rachel - 2023

Policies that aim to reduce the prevalence of obesity have been high on the policy agenda for many years - see, for example, DHSC (2020) and Dimbleby (2021). Understanding the costs associated with obesity is important for informing policy. Bell and Deyes (2022) have recently produced what are,...

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The changing face of retirement : future patterns of work, health, care and income among the older population

Emmerson, Carl; Heald, Katherine; Hood, Andrew - 2014

This report presents projections of mortality, family composition, health, care receipt, care provision, labour supply …

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The Dynamics of Income-Related Health Inequality Among US Children

Chatterji, Pinka - 2011

We estimate and decompose family income-related inequality in child health in the US and analyze its dynamics using the … income-related health mobility index recently introduced by Allanson et al., 2010. Data come from the 1997, 2002, and 2007 … income-related child health inequality remains stable from early childhood into adolescence. The main factor underlying …

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The Long-Run Consequences of Chernobyl : Evidence on Subjective Well-Being, Mental Health and Welfare

Danzer, Alexander M.; Danzer, Natalia - 2021

health. We estimate the causal effect of the 1986 Chernobyl catastrophe after 20 years by linking geographic variation in …

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Health inequalities

Case, Anne; Kraftman, Lucy - 2022

There are marked differences in life expectancy between the regions of England, between the countries in the UK, and between the UK and other wealthy countries. Within England, prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, life expectancy at birth was more than two years higher in London and the South East...

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Understanding retirement in the UK

Cribb, Jonathan - 2023

This report is designed to provide new evidence on retirement patterns in the UK, as part of the Pensions Review, a larger project run by the IFS in partnership with the abrdn Financial Fairness Trust, which is examining the future of financial security in retirement. Understanding patterns of...

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How do the last five years measure up on levelling up?

Farquharson, Christine; Milsom, Luke; Tahir, Imran; … - 2024

Five years ago, then Prime Minister Boris Johnson made "levelling up" a central plank of the Conservative Party's bid for re-election, with a manifesto pledge to "level up every part of the UK". In 2022, the government published a thorough and ambitious White Paper setting out 12 levelling up...

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Unemployment and Domestic Violence : Theory and Evidence

Anderberg, Dan; Rainer, Helmut; Wadsworth, Jonathan; … - 2021

Is unemployment the overwhelming determinant of domestic violence that many commentators expect it to be? The contribution of this paper is to examine, theoretically and empirically, how changes in unemployment affect the incidence of domestic abuse. The key theoretical prediction is that male...

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The past and future of UK health spending

Stoye, George; Warner, Max; Zaranko, Ben - 2024

Health spending, and the performance of the NHS, will feature prominently in the upcoming general election campaign …. Many different factors matter for NHS performance and for the wider health of the population, but one important factor is … the level of spending on health services. In this IFS pre-election briefing, we examine UK government health spending over …

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Does funding follow need? : an analysis of the geographic distribution of public spending in England

Phillips, David; Sibieta, Luke; Warner, Max; Zaranko, Ben - 2022

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