This paper reviews the performance of the National Health Service under the Labour government of Tony Blair. It shows that there have been some dramatic increases in resources going into the service, but also that these do not seem to be delivering the improvements in activities that might have...

How can we ensure high-quality public services such as health care and education? Governments spend huge amounts of public money on public services such as health, education, and social care, and yet the services that are actually delivered are often low quality, inefficiently run, unresponsive...

This paper assesses the extent to which the behaviour of an individual is the result of the constraints that he or she faces, or the result of his or her preferences. It concentrates on participation or non-participation in employment. Following a discussion of potential methodological...

Government support of private (occupational and personal) pensions through the system of tax reliefs is large: between one quarter and one third of that of direct support of state pensions through public expenditure. However, it is regressive, lacks transparency and is difficult to control. This...

[fre] Vers la fin des années 1980, un grand nombre de gouvernements de l'ouest ont commencé à introduire la notion de concurrence entre les différents secteurs publics concernant la protection sociale tels la santé, l'éducation, etc. Les gouvernements ont commencé à faire la distinction...

A Review of Horizontal Equity, Uncertainty and Economic Well-Being, edited by Martin David and Timothy Smeeding. Chicago: University of Chicago Press for the National Bureau of Economic Research.