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Current search: 'Journal Article' and 'Ruth Hancock'

  1. Do household surveys give a coherent view of disability benefit targeting?: a multisurvey latent variable analysis for the older population in Great Britain

    Ruth Hancock, Marcello Morciano, Stephen Pudney, et al.

    1. Disability
    2. Households
    3. Welfare Benefits
    4. Surveys

  2. Birth-cohort trends in older-age functional disability and their relationship with socio-economic status: evidence from a pooling of repeated cross-sectional population-based studies for the UK

    Marcello Morciano, Ruth Hancock, and Stephen Pudney

    1. Disability
    2. Older People
    3. Health

  3. Assessing the distributional impact of reforms to disability benefits for older people in the UK: implications of alternative measures of income and disability costs

    Ruth Hancock and Stephen Pudney

    1. Older People
    2. Welfare Benefits
    3. Social Policy

  4. Disability costs and equivalence scales in the older population in Great Britain

    Marcello Morciano, Ruth Hancock, and Stephen Pudney

    1. Disability
    2. Welfare Benefits
    3. Income Dynamics

  5. The role of care home fees in the public costs and distributional effects of potential reforms to care home funding for older people in England

    Ruth Hancock, Juliette Malley, Raphael Wittenberg, et al.

    1. Older People
    2. Public Policy
    3. Caregiving

  6. Attendance Allowance and Disability Living Allowance claimants in the older population: is there a difference in their economic circumstances?

    Ruth Hancock, Marcello Morciano, and Stephen Pudney

    1. Disability
    2. Older People
    3. Welfare Benefits

  7. Estimating the impact of a policy reform on benefit take-up: the 2001 extension to the minimum income guarantee for UK pensioners

    Stephen Pudney, Francesca Zantomio, and Ruth Hancock

  8. Failing to keep up? The long-term effects of current benefit and tax uprating policies

    Holly Sutherland, Ruth Hancock, John Hills, et al.

    1. Welfare Benefits
    2. Taxation

  9. Ageing, income and living standards: evidence from the British Household Panel Survey

    Richard Berthoud, Morten Blekesaune, and Ruth Hancock

    1. Older People
    2. Pensions
    3. Income Dynamics

  10. Elderly carers in the UK: are there really gender differences? New analysis of the Individual Sample of Anonymised Records from the 2001 UK Census

    Emilia Del Bono, Ruth Hancock, and Emanuela Sala

  11. Keeping up or falling behind? The impact of benefit and tax uprating on incomes and poverty

    Holly Sutherland, Ruth Hancock, John Hills, et al.

    1. Poverty
    2. Welfare Benefits

  12. The welfare cost of means-testing: pensioner participation in income support

    Monica Hernandez, Stephen Pudney, and Ruth Hancock

    1. Pensions
    2. Poverty

  13. Simulating the reform of means-tested benefits with endogenous take-up and claim costs

    Stephen Pudney, Ruth Hancock, and Holly Sutherland

  14. The take-up of multiple means-tested benefits by British pensioners: evidence from the Family Resources Survey

    Ruth Hancock, Stephen Pudney, Geraldine Barker, et al.

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