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Reeves, Aaron, Friedman, Sam (2024). Born to rule: the making and remaking of the British elite. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.

Vasilescu, Corina L., McKee, Martin, Reeves, Aaron (2024). Quantitative textual analysis as a means to explore corporate interests in food safety. Health (United Kingdom), 28(3), 372 - 389. https://doi.org/10.1177/13634593231173807

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

Clair, Amy, Reeves, Aaron, McKee, Martin, Stuckler, David (2018). Constructing a housing precariousness measure for Europe. Journal of European Social Policy, https://doi.org/10.1177/0958928718768334

McDaid, David, Quaglio, Gianluca, Correia de Campos, António, van Woensel, Lieve, Karapiperis, Theodoros, Reeves, Aaron (2014). Health protection in times of economic crisis: Challenges and opportunities for Europe. Journal of Public Health Policy, 34(4), 489-501. https://doi.org/10.1057/jphp.2013.35

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Hilhorst, Sacha, Koch, Insa, Fransham, Mark, Reeves, Aaron, Savage, Mike (2025). 'Corruption talk’ and the politics of class in 21st century Britain. Sociological Review, 73(6), 1201 - 1220. https://doi.org/10.1177/00380261241291308

Stewart, Kitty, Reeves, Aaron, Patrick, Ruth (27 November 2025) How to solve child poverty. British Politics and Policy at LSE.

Blaabæk, Ea Hoppe, Friedman, Sam, Jæger, Mads Meier, Reeves, Aaron (2025). How are cultural tastes stratified? Evidence from library borrowing for the entire population of Denmark. European Sociological Review, https://doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf041

Bentley, Rebecca, Mason, Kate, Jacobs, David, Blakely, Tony, Howden-Chapman, Philippa, Li, Ang, Adamkiewicz, Gary, Reeves, Aaron (2025). Housing as a social determinant of health: a contemporary framework. The Lancet Public Health, 10(10). https://doi.org/10.1016/S2468-2667(25)00142-2

Reeves, Aaron, Friedman, Sam (4 September 2025) Taxing private schools won't smash the class ceiling. British Politics and Policy at LSE.

Higgins, Katie, Friedman, Sam, Reeves, Aaron (2025). Outsiders on the inside: how minoritised elites respond to racial inequality. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 48(10), 1991 - 2011. https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2024.2354317

Muggleton, Naomi, Rahal, Charles, Reeves, Aaron (2025). Capitalizing on a crisis: a computational analysis of all five million British firms during the Covid-19 pandemic. Journal of Computational Social Science, 8(2). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42001-025-00360-4

Loopstra, Rachel, Baumberg Geiger, Ben, Reeves, Aaron (2025). Did increasing the UK’s Universal Credit and working tax credits by £20 per week in 2020–2021 reduce food insecurity? Journal of Social Policy, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047279425000091

Friedman, Sam, Reeves, Aaron (9 April 2025) Not such humble origins? The British elite's thirst to tell an "upward story" of their success. LSE Inequalities.

Patrick, Ruth, Reeves, Aaron (14 March 2025) Cuts and caps to benefits have always harmed people, not helped them into work. British Politics and Policy at LSE.

Stewart, Kitty, Patrick, Ruth, Reeves, Aaron (2025). The sins of the parents: conceptualizing adult-oriented reforms to family benefits. Journal of European Social Policy, 35(1), 68 - 82. https://doi.org/10.1177/09589287241290739

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

Friedman, Sam, Reeves, Aaron (11 September 2024) Q and A with Sam Friedman and Aaron Reeves on Born to Rule. LSE Review of Books.

Bortun, Vladimir, Reeves, Aaron, Friedman, Sam (2024). We didn’t know what we were eating tomorrow’: how class origin shapes the political outlook of Members of the Parliament in Britain. Political Studies, https://doi.org/10.1177/00323217241257006

Friedman, Sam, Ellersgaard, Christoph, Reeves, Aaron, Larsen, Anton Grau (2024). The meaning of merit: talent versus hard work legitimacy. Social Forces, 102(3), 861 - 879. https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/soad131

Friedman, Sam, Reeves, Aaron (2024-06-10 - 2024-07-05) Who rules Britain? [Poster]. Displays of power: LSE Festival exhibition 2024, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, United Kingdom, GBR.

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.

Stewart, Kitty, Patrick, Ruth, Reeves, Aaron (2023). The sins of the parents: conceptualising adult-oriented reforms to family policy. (CASEpapers CASE 228). Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion.

Speed, Ewen, Reeves, Aaron (2023). Why is lived experience absent from social security policymaking? Journal of Social Policy, 54(1), 22-37. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047279423000028

Stewart, Kitty, Patrick, Ruth, Reeves, Aaron (2023). A time of need: exploring the changing poverty risk facing larger families in the UK. Journal of Social Policy, 54(1), 75 - 99. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047279422000952

Worth, Eve, Reeves, Aaron, Friedman, Sam (2023). Is there an old girls’ network? Girls’ schools and recruitment to the British elite. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 44(1), 1 - 25. https://doi.org/10.1080/01425692.2022.2132472

Reeves, Aaron, Brown, Chris, Hanefeld, Johanna (2022). Female political representation and the gender health gap: a cross-national analysis of 49 European countries. European Journal of Public Health, 32(5), 684 - 689. https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckac122

Goodair, Ben, Reeves, Aaron (3 August 2022) Areas of England with increased outsourcing of NHS services have more deaths of people with treatable conditions. British Politics and Policy at LSE.

Reeves, Aaron, Fransham, Mark, Stewart, Kitty, Patrick, Ruth (2022). Does capping social security harm health? A natural experiment in the UK. Social Policy and Administration, 56(3), 345 - 359. https://doi.org/10.1111/spol.12768

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.

Reeves, Aaron, Loopstra, Rachel, Tarasuk, Valerie (2021). Family policy and food insecurity: an observational analysis in 142 countries. The Lancet Planetary Health, 5(8), e506 - e513. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2542-5196(21)00151-0

Stewart, Kitty, Reeves, Aaron, Patrick, Ruth (30 July 2021) Why we can’t understand child poverty in the UK without thinking about family size. British Politics and Policy at LSE.

Stewart, Kitty, Reeves, Aaron, Patrick, Ruth (2021). A time of need: exploring the changing poverty risk facing larger families in the UK. (CASEpapers CASE 224). Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion.

Koch, Insa, Reeves, Aaron (2021). From social security to state-sanctioned insecurity: how welfare reform mimics the commodification of labour through greater state intervention. Economy and Society, 50(3), 448 - 470. https://doi.org/10.1080/03085147.2020.1844936

Reeves, Aaron (2021). The health effects of wage setting institutions: how collective bargaining improves health but not because it reduces inequality. Sociology of Health and Illness, 43(4), 1012 - 1031. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.13272

Reeves, Aaron Samuel, Fransham, Mark James, Stewart, Kitty Judith, Patrick, Ruth (2020). Did the introduction of the benefit cap in Britain harm mental health? A natural experiment approach. (CASEpapers CASE 221). Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion.

Barlow, Pepita, Loopstra, Rachel, Tarasuk, Valerie, Reeves, Aaron (2020). Liberal trade policy and food insecurity across the income distribution: an observational analysis in 132 countries, 2014–17. The Lancet Global Health, 8(8), e1090-e1097. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2214-109X(20)30263-1

Barlow, Pepita, Loopstra, Rachel, Tarasuk, Valerie, Reeves, Aaron (2020). Liberal trade policy and food insecurity across the income distribution: an observational analysis in 132 countries, 2014–17. The Lancet Global Health,

Patrick, Ruth, Reeves, Aaron, Stewart, Kitty (12 May 2020) COVID-19 and low-income families: the government must lift the benefit cap and remove the two-child limit. British Politics and Policy at LSE.

Friedman, Sam, Reeves, Aaron (2020). From aristocratic to ordinary: shifting modes of elite distinction. American Sociological Review, 85(2), 323-350. https://doi.org/10.1177/0003122420912941

Barlow, Pepita, Reeves, Aaron, McKee, Martin, Stuckler, David (2019). Employment relations and dismissal regulations does employment legislation protect the health of workers? Social Policy and Administration, 53(7), 939 - 957. https://doi.org/10.1111/spol.12487

McArthur, Daniel, Reeves, Aaron (2019). The rhetoric of recessions: how British newspapers talk about the poor when unemployment rises, 1896–2000. Sociology, 53(6), 1005 - 1025. https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038519838752

Reeves, Aaron, Mackenbach, Johan P. (2019). Can inequalities in political participation explain health inequalities? Social Science & Medicine, 234, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2019.112371

Loopstra, Rachel, Reeves, Aaron, Tarasuk, Valerie (2019). The rise of hunger among low-income households: an analysis of the risks of food insecurity between 2004 and 2016 in a population-based study of UK adults. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 73(7), 668-673. https://doi.org/10.1136/jech-2018-211194

Miller, Michael, Toffolutti, Veronica, Reeves, Aaron (2018). The enduring influence of institutions on universal health coverage: an empirical investigation of 62 former colonies. World Development, 111, 270-287. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2018.07.010

Holman, Daniel, Lynch, Rebecca, Reeves, Aaron (2018). How do health behaviour interventions take account of social context? A literature trend and co-citation analysis. Health: an Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine, 22(4), 389-410. https://doi.org/10.1177/1363459317695630

Baker, Peter, Hone, Thomas, Reeves, Aaron, Avendano, Mauricio, Millett, Christopher (2018). Does government expenditure reduce inequalities in infant mortality rates in low- and middle-income countries?: A time-series, ecological analysis of 48 countries from 1993 to 2013. Health Economics, Policy and Law, https://doi.org/10.1017/S1744133118000269

Reeves, Aaron, de Vries, Robert (2018). Can cultural consumption increase future earnings? Exploring the economic returns to cultural capital. British Journal of Sociology, 70(1), 214-240. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.12374

Madureira-Lima, Joana, Reeves, Aaron, Clair, Amy, Stuckler, David (2018). The Great Recession and inequalities in access to health care: a study of unemployment and unmet medical need in Europe in the economic crisis. International Journal of Epidemiology, 47(1), 58-68. https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyx193

Reeves, Aaron, de Vries, Robert (2018). Can cultural consumption increase future earnings? Exploring the economic returns to cultural capital. (III Working Paper 20). International Inequalities Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science. https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.d9q74nye2mz0

Loopstra, Rachel, Fledderjohann, Jasmine, Reeves, Aaron, Stuckler, David (2018). Impact of welfare benefit sanctioning on food insecurity: a dynamic cross-area study of food bank usage in the UK. Journal of Social Policy, 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047279417000915

Reeves, Aaron, Friedman, Sam, Rahal, Charles, Flemmen, Magne (2017). The decline and persistence of the old boy: private schools and elite recruitment 1897 to 2016. American Sociological Review, 82(6), 1139-1166. https://doi.org/10.1177/0003122417735742

Pevalin, David J., Reeves, Aaron, Baker, Emma, Bentley, Rebecca (2017). The impact of persistent poor housing conditions on mental health: a longitudinal population-based study. Preventive Medicine, 105, 304-310. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ypmed.2017.09.020

Stuckler, David, Reeves, Aaron, Loopstra, Rachel, Karanikolos, Marina, McKee, Martin (2017). Austerity and health: the impact in the UK and Europe. European Journal of Public Health, 27(4), 18-21. https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckx167

Reeves, Aaron, Friedman, Sam (2017). The dogged persistence of the British 'old boy': how private school alumni reach the elite.

Reeves, Aaron (2017). Commentary: uncertainties in addressing the ‘health gap’. International Journal of Epidemiology, 46(4), 1324-1328. https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyx183

Niedzwiedz, Claire L, Katikireddi, Srinivasa Vittal, Reeves, Aaron, McKee, Martin, Stuckler, David (2017). Economic insecurity during the Great Recession and metabolic, inflammatory and liver function biomarkers: analysis of the UK household longitudinal study. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, https://doi.org/10.1136/jech-2017-209105-

de Vries, Robert, Reeves, Aaron, Geiger, Ben (2017). Inequalities in the application of welfare sanctions in Britain. (III Working Paper 15). International Inequalities Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science. https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.phwmr7sa7hxr

Barlow, Pepita, McKee, Martin, Reeves, Aaron, Galea, Gauden, Stuckler, David (2017). Time-discounting and tobacco smoking: a systematic review and network analysis. International Journal of Epidemiology, 46(3), 860-869. https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyw233

Reeves, Aaron (2017). Does sanctioning disabled claimants of unemployment insurance increase labour market inactivity? An analysis of 346 British local authorities between 2009 and 2014. Journal of Poverty and Social Justice, 25(2), 129-146. https://doi.org/10.1332/175982717X14939739331029

Reeves, Aaron, Steele, S., Stuckler, D., McKee, M., Amato-Gauci, A., Semenza, Jan, C. (2017). Gender violence, poverty and HIV infection risk among persons engaged in the sex industry: cross-national analysis of the political economy of sex markets in 30 European and Central Asian countries. HIV Medicine, https://doi.org/10.1111/hiv.12520

Holman, Daniel, Lynch, Rebecca, Reeves, Aaron (2017). The impact of social sciences on health behaviour interventions has diminished – more interdisciplinary, culture-focused research is needed.

Reeves, Aaron, McKee, Martin, Mackenbach, Johan, Whitehead, Margaret, Stuckler, David (2017). Introduction of a national minimum wage reduceddepressive symptoms in low-wage workers:a quasi-natural experiment in the UK. Health Economics, 26(5), 639-655. https://doi.org/10.1002/hec.3336

Reeves, Aaron, Loopstra, Rachel, Stuckler, David (2017). The growing disconnect between food prices and wages in Europe: cross-national analysis of food deprivation and welfare regimes in twenty-one EU countries, 2004–2012. Public Health Nutrition, 20(8), 1414-1422. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1368980017000167

Reeves, Aaron (2017). Economics: the architecture of inequality. Nature, 543, 312-313. https://doi.org/10.1038/543312a

McKee, Martin, Reeves, Aaron, Clair, Amy, Stuckler, David (2017). Living on the edge: precariousness and why it matters for health. Archives of Public Health, 75(13), 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13690-017-0183-y

Toffolutti, Veronica, Reeves, Aaron, McKee, Martin, Stuckler, David (2017). Outsourcing cleaning services increases MRSA incidence: evidence from 126 English acute trusts. Social Science & Medicine, 174, 64-69. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2016.12.015

Reeves, Aaron, McKee, Martin, Mackenbach, Johan P., Whitehead, Margaret, Stuckler, David (2017). Public pensions and unmet medical need among older people: cross-national analysis of 16 European countries, 2004–2010. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 71(2), 174-180. https://doi.org/10.1136/jech-2015-206257

Reeves, Aaron, Steele, Sarah, Stuckler, David, McKee, Martin, Amato-Gauci, Andrew, Semenza, Jan, C. (2017). National sex work policy and HIV prevalence among sex workers: an ecological regression analysis of 27 European countries. The Lancet HIV, https://doi.org/10.1016/S2352-3018(16)30217-X

Reeves, Aaron, Loopstra, Rachel (2017). 'Set up to fail'? How welfare conditionality undermines citizenship for vulnerable groups. Social Policy and Society, https://doi.org/10.1017/S1474746416000646

Reeves, Aaron, Clair, Amy, McKee, Martin, Stuckler, David (2016). Reeves et al. respond to “Harnessing Housing Natural Experiments”. American Journal of Epidemiology, 184(6), 434-435. https://doi.org/10.1093/aje/kww054

Reeves, Aaron, Clair, Amy, McKee, Martin, Stuckler, David (2016). Reductions in the United Kingdom's Government Housing Benefit and symptoms of depression in low-income households. American Journal of Epidemiology, 184(6), 421-429. https://doi.org/10.1093/aje/kww055

Barlow, Pepita, Reeves, Aaron, McKee, Martin, Galea, Gauden, Stuckler, David (2016). Unhealthy diets, obesity and time discounting: a systematic literature review and network analysis. Obesity Reviews, 17(9), 810-819. https://doi.org/10.1111/obr.12431

Loopstra, Rachel, Reeves, Aaron, McKee, Martin, Stuckler, David (2016). Food insecurity and social protection in Europe: quasi-natural experiment of Europe's great recessions 2004–2012. Preventive Medicine, 89, 44-50. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ypmed.2016.05.010

Stuckler, David, Reeves, Aaron, Loopstra, Rachel, McKee, Martin (2016). Textual analysis of sugar industry influence on the World Health Organization’s 2015 sugars intake guideline. Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 94(8), 566-573. https://doi.org/10.2471/BLT.15.165852

Reeves, Aaron, de Vries, Robert (2016). Does media coverage influence public attitudes towards welfare recipients? the impact of the 2011 English riots. British Journal of Sociology, 67(2), 281-306. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.12191

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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

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