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Article
  • Reader, Mary, Portes, Jonathan, Patrick, Ruth (2025). Does cutting child benefits reduce fertility in larger families? Evidence from the UK’s two-child limit. Population Research and Policy Review, 44(2). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11113-025-09935-5 picture_as_pdf
  • Stewart, Kitty, Gambaro, Ludovica, Reader, Mary (2025). Levelling down? Understanding the decline of the maintained nursery sector in England. British Educational Research Journal, 51(2), 1009 - 1038. https://doi.org/10.1002/berj.4104 picture_as_pdf
  • Stewart, Kitty, Andersen, Kate, Patrick, Ruth, Reader, Mary, Reeves, Aaron (2025). Does reducing child benefits mean parents work more? A mixed-methods study of the labor market effects of the United Kingdom’s "two-child limit". Social Service Review, 99(1), 3 - 42. https://doi.org/10.1086/734071 picture_as_pdf
  • Reeves, Aaron, Fransham, Mark, Stewart, Kitty, Reader, Mary, Patrick, Ruth (2024). Capping welfare payments for workless families increases employment and economic inactivity: evidence from the UK's benefit cap. International Journal of Social Welfare, 33(4), 981 - 994. https://doi.org/10.1111/ijsw.12651 picture_as_pdf
  • Reader, Mary (2023). The infant health effects of starting universal child benefits in pregnancy: evidence from England and Wales. Journal of Health Economics, 89, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhealeco.2023.102751 picture_as_pdf
    • Chapter
  • Reeves, Aaron, Andersen, Kate, Reader, Mary, Warnock, Rosalie (2023). Social security, exponential inequalities, and Covid-19: how welfare reform in the UK left larger families exposed to the scarring effects of the pandemic. In Atrey, Shreya, Fredman, Sandra (Eds.), Exponential Inequalities: Equality Law in Times of Crisis (pp. 61 - 78). Oxford University Press (U.S.). https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192872999.003.0004
    • Dataset
  • Landais, Camille, Leite Mariante, Gabriel, Manfredi, Sveva, Kleven, Henrik, Reader, Mary (2024). Replication package for: "The Child Penalty Atlas". [Dataset]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13224527
    • Report
  • Bramley, Glen, Burchardt, Tania, Cooper, Kerris, Fitzpatrick, Suzanne, Hills, John, Hughes, Jarrod, Lacey, Nicola, Lupton, Ruth, Macmillan, Lindsey & McKnight, Abigail et al (2023). The Conservative Governments’ record on social policy from May 2015 to pre-COVID 2020: policies, spending and outcomes. An assessment of social policies and social inequalities on the eve of the COVID-19 pandemic. (Social Policies and Distributional Outcomes Overview Paper SPDOOP01). Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion. picture_as_pdf
    • Working paper
  • Reader, Mary, Andersen, Kate, Patrick, Ruth, Reeves, Aaron, Stewart, Kitty (2023). Making work pay? The labour market effects of capping child benefits in larger families. (CASEpapers CASE 229). Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion. picture_as_pdf
  • Reader, Mary Patricia, Burchardt, Tania (2023). Public and private welfare activity in England, 1979 to 2019. (Social Policies and Distributional Outcomes Research Papers SPDORP13). Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion. picture_as_pdf
  • Reader, Mary Patricia (2021). The birthweight effects of universal child benefits in pregnancy: quasi-experimental evidence from England and Wales. (CASEpapers CASE 222). Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion. picture_as_pdf
  • Stewart, Kitty, Reader, Mary (2021). The Conservative governments' record on early childhood from May 2015 to pre-COVID 2020: policies, spending and outcomes. (Social Policies and Distributional Outcomes Research Papers SPDORP08). Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion. picture_as_pdf
    • Blog post
  • Patrick, Ruth, Warnock, Rosalie, Reeves, Aaron, Stewart, Kitty, Andersen, Kate, Reader, Mary (18 November 2021) When the cap really doesn’t fit: populist policymaking and the benefit cap. British Politics and Policy at LSE. picture_as_pdf
  • Tarrant, Anna, Reader, Mary (9 September 2021) Mental health and the pandemic: why it is inaccurate to say fathers were largely unaffected. LSE COVID-19 Blog. picture_as_pdf
  • Tarrant, Anna, Reader, Mary (18 August 2021) Mental health and the pandemic: why it is inaccurate to say fathers were largely unaffected. British Politics and Policy at LSE. picture_as_pdf
  • Stewart, Kitty, Reader, Mary (10 May 2021) Prioritise early years to reduce childhood inequalities. LSE COVID-19 Blog. picture_as_pdf
  • Reader, Mary, Curran, Megan (6 April 2021) The UK is now falling behind both European countries and the US in its support for larger families. British Politics and Policy at LSE. picture_as_pdf
  • Cameron, Claire, Dewar, Laura, Fitzpatrick, Ciara, Garthwaite, Kayleigh, Griffiths, Rita, Hill, Katherine, Ladlow, Linzi, McHardy, Fiona, Millar, Jane & Patrick, Ruth et al (5 March 2021) More, please, for those with less: why we need to go further on the Universal Credit uplift. British Politics and Policy at LSE. picture_as_pdf