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Institute for Fiscal Studies
@TheIFS
Britain’s leading independent economic research institute
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http://www.ifs.org.uk 14-11-2010 16:33:54
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🆕 Policy lessons from new advances in sanitation economics
Today on VoxDev, Britta Augsburg Institute for Fiscal Studies, Andrew Foster Brown Economics, Molly Lipscomb UVA Batten School, Dil Rahut, KE Seetha Ram & Tetsushi Sonobe Asian Development Bank Institute outline lessons from JDEs special issue: voxdev.org/topic/health/p…
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NEW #IFSWorkingPaper : Keeping the peace whilst getting your way: Information, persuasion and intimate partner violence (IPV).
Read the study on the effects on IPV of new information received by men and women, relevant to a high-stakes joint decision: ifs.org.uk/publications/k…
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“There is a real challenge for the [higher education] sector to explain what it is that is creating this enormous squeeze.”
Paul Johnson discusses the funding squeeze facing UK universities on The Expert Factor podcast.
Listen here: instituteforgovernment.org.uk/podcast/expert…
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NEW: The unintended consequences of infrastructure development
Antonella Bancalari's article in The Review of Economics and Statistics (REStat) investigates the social costs imposed by poor implementation of public infrastructure, focusing on the period from 2005 to 2015 in Peru.
Read here: ifs.org.uk/journals/unint…
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“We've lost part of the usefulness actually of the degree as a signal to an employer what it is that you're capable of...”
Paul Johnson discusses grade inflation within universities on The Expert Factor podcast.
🎧 Listen here: instituteforgovernment.org.uk/podcast/expert…
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📊 #IFSSatStat : UK health spending has grown at an average real-terms rate of 3.6% per year since 1949–50.
Spending has grown at a slower rate than that during every parliament since 2010.
Read our Election 2024 briefing on UK health spending: ifs.org.uk/publications/p…
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PODCAST: What’s going wrong with Britain’s universities?
In this week's episode, The Expert Factor team Paul Johnson, Hannah White and Anand Menon explore the future of the UK's universities.
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PODCAST 🎙️ What’s going wrong with Britain’s universities?
On this week's Expert Factor, Hannah White, Anand Menon UK in a Changing Europe and Paul Johnson Institute for Fiscal Studies reflect on how our universities are faring and discuss what the parties plan to do about them instituteforgovernment.org.uk/podcast/expert…
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'Somebody will offer to cut a thing that they know that you cannot politically bear to, knowing full well that the Treasury, with its secret pocket of reserves... will rescue that one.'
🎧 Listen to Giles Wilkes discuss the tactics used in spending reviews: linktr.ee/ifszoomsin
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Last night Professor Heidi Williams (Heidi L. Williams) gave the IFS 2024 Annual Lecture on 'Innovation and productivity policies: a budgetary perspective.'
📺 You can watch back the lecture, download the slides and find out more about the series here: ifs.org.uk/annual-lectures
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'If you are a spending minister the tactics you can use really depends on the political situation and the political salience of the issue.'
David Gauke discussing the politics of the spending review on our podcast earlier this month.
Listen here: linktr.ee/ifszoomsin
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The wider environment in which girls grow up shapes gender conformity.
Sreevidya Ayyar, Uta Bolt, Eric French & Cormac O'Dea's #IFSworkingpaper finds that girls' attitudes to gender norms aged 11 in 1969 were predictive of later earnings.
📗 Read here: ifs.org.uk/publications/i…
![Institute for Fiscal Studies (@TheIFS) on Twitter photo 2024-05-15 13:00:56 The wider environment in which girls grow up shapes gender conformity. Sreevidya Ayyar, @uta_bolt, Eric French & @cormacodea's #IFSworkingpaper finds that girls' attitudes to gender norms aged 11 in 1969 were predictive of later earnings. 📗 Read here: ifs.org.uk/publications/i… The wider environment in which girls grow up shapes gender conformity. Sreevidya Ayyar, @uta_bolt, Eric French & @cormacodea's #IFSworkingpaper finds that girls' attitudes to gender norms aged 11 in 1969 were predictive of later earnings. 📗 Read here: ifs.org.uk/publications/i…](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GNnymZTX0AAYj5q.jpg)
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📺 ‘What we have are two parties saying they’re going to spend more on defence without telling us what the cost of that is going to be, either in terms of less money elsewhere or higher taxes.’
Paul Johnson on what the recent announcements on defence spending really mean.
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Disappointing that the Welsh Govt has decided to proceed with council tax reform only in 2028, not 2025 as originally planned. Revaluation is already long overdue, and there is no benefit from delaying. Welsh Government Institute for Fiscal Studies 1/5
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NEW #IFSWorkingPaper : The role of hospital networks in individual mortality
Giancarlo Buitrago, Paul Rodríguez-Lesmes, Natalia Serna and Marcos Vera-Hernández 🇪🇺 🇺🇦's paper estimates that broad-network health insurers reduce mortality and hospital congestion.
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What are the problems facing local government funding?
📺 Paul Johnson discusses the recent local government elections and explains the challenges facing existing and newly elected councillors.
📰 Read Paul's Times column on council funding: ifs.org.uk/articles/counc…
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Despite a pandemic, record waiting lists and growing rates of ill health, real-terms health spending has risen less quickly than was planned five years ago.
New Institute for Fiscal Studies report with Nuffield Foundation and abrdn Financial Fairness Trust on NHS spending.
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Next up, Centre for Ed Policy & Equalising Opportunities’s Claire Crawford and gill wyness starting with Claire highlighting the disparities in access to university in the UK.
Increase in participation over past decade, but stubborn gap between high and low SES.
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