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Mary is a PhD student in Economics at Stanford University.
01 June 2023
Mary Reader, Kate Andersen, Ruth Patrick, Aaron Reeves and Kitty Stewart
Child benefits are typically paid on a per-child basis, without restrictions on family size. In this paper we generate unique evidence on the effects of capping child benefits by family size by examining the introduction... Read more...
04 January 2023
Mary Reader and Tania Burchardt
(REVISED VERSION, published in June 2024) This paper offers an empirical account of the changing landscape of private and public welfare activity in England over the forty years prior to the Covid-19 pandemic. It forms a... Read more...
15 June 2022
Mary Reader (CASE, LSE), Jonathan Portes (King?s College London), Ruth Patrick (University of York), Kate Andersen (University of York)
The two-child limit, introduced by the UK government from April 2017, restricts means-tested child-related social security support to the first two children in a household. It aimed to ?to ensure that families in receipt... Read more...
24 February 2021
Mary Reader
Over a decade ago, in April 2009, the UK Labour government introduced the Health in Pregnancy Grant (HPG), a cash transfer of the equivalent of child benefit over the third trimester (#190) as a lump sum to all pregnant ... Read more...
01 February 2021
Kitty Stewart and Mary Reader
This paper uses the Social Policies and Distributional Outcomes framework to evaluate the record of successive Conservative administrations on early childhood during the period between 2015 and the eve of the COVID-19 pa... Read more...
