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Our work examines how and why people accumulate wealth – such as in housing, pensions and other assets – and how they use it over their working life and in retirement. We also analyse decisions about retirement and the impact of pensions and saving policy on incomes, saving and retirement decisions.
We evaluate the large-scale pilot program of an innovative and major welfare inter- vention in Colombia, which combines home visits by trained social workers to households in extreme poverty with preferential access to social programs.
1 April 2016
Is the international tax system fixed and fit for purpose or still in need of serious remedial action? Should we hold off on introducing further anti-avoidance measures until current policies have had time to work or forge ahead with fixing our broken system? Helen Miller, an associate director who runs the tax sector at IFS, explores these issues in Tax Journal.
21 October 2016
We want to understand how important market frictions are in stifling the transmission of ideas from one firm to another. We use comprehensive data on patent applications from the European Patent Office and a multiple spells duration model to provide estimates that suggest that they are substantial.
1 January 2017
This is the introduction to a special issue of Fiscal Studies, looking at medical spending around the developed world.
21 November 2016
This paper examines health status differences between England and the United States, with an emphasis on the implications of any health disparities for health care cost differences between the two countries.
21 November 2016
This paper reviews what is known about socio-economic inequalities in health care in England, with particular attention to inequalities relative to need that may be considered unfair (‘inequities’).
21 November 2016
This paper presents a summary of the trends in medical expenditure in England together with, using detailed administrative data, an analysis of the growth over 15 years of expenditure and activity in hospital inpatient health care, which represents around 20–25 per cent of all NHS expenditure.
21 November 2016
Using full population longitudinal data from merged administrative registers for Denmark, we document that medical spending is highly concentrated in the population and is persistent through time at the individual level.
21 November 2016
This paper uses administrative National Health Service hospital records to examine key features of public hospital spending in England.
21 November 2016
This paper studies medical spending in France from three perspectives: concentration, persistence, and evolution before death.
21 November 2016
We use claims panel data from a big German private health insurer to provide detailed individual-level evidence on medical spending between 2005 and 2011. This includes evidence on the distribution of medical spending, the dependence of medical spending on age and other demographic characteristics, its persistence, and how medical spending evolves in the years before death.
21 November 2016
Health care spending growth in Japan has accelerated in recent years, unlike in most OECD countries. It is thus important to characterise the structure of recent medical spending using individual-level data.
21 November 2016
The Netherlands is among the top spenders on health in the OECD. We document the life-cycle profile, concentration and persistence of this expenditure using claims data covering both curative and long-term care expenses for the full Dutch population.
21 November 2016
In this paper, we present evidence on the concentration of hospital-based medical spending in Canada.
21 November 2016
Since the creation of National Health Insurance (NHI) in 1995, Taiwan’s medical spending has been increasing rapidly, as has been the case in most countries worldwide. This paper follows international standards in documenting recent trends in Taiwan’s medical spending by category, relying on official statistics, Surveys of Family Income and Expenditure (SFIE) data and administrative reimbursement panel data from the NHI Universal Database (NHIUD).
21 November 2016
We document facts about the US population’s medical spending using the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey data set.
21 November 2016
We use data from the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS) to document the medical spending of Americans aged 65 and older.
21 November 2016
There is little current information regarding the long-term persistence of health spending in the United States, in particular among the population aged under 65 (pre-Medicare eligibility). We describe and model the extent of persistence over a six-year period (2003–08) using medical and pharmacy claims for over 3 million employees, retirees and dependants derived from the Truven Health MarketScan database.
21 November 2016
We use data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) to document the distribution of out-of-pocket medical spending among individuals aged 55 and over in the US. The HRS data permit us to examine out-of-pocket spending close to the end of life and to analyse the components of spending in more detail than has been done in previous studies.
21 November 2016
From an economic perspective, imposing a credibly one-off net wealth levy in times of crisis as a tool to ward off a national emergency appears to be advantageous as, in an ideal world, this would not distort market players’ allocation decisions. However, in practice, charging such a levy may give rise to distortions and unwanted effects on the real economy.
21 November 2016
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