Mary Reader

Pre-doc

Email:

m.reader@lse.ac.uk

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Biography

Mary Reader is a Pre-Doctoral Research Assistant at the Hub for Equal Representation in the Economy at STICERD. Prior to this, she was a Research Officer at the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE), working on family policy, cash transfers, early child health and education. Mary’s research interests focus on the causal effects of economic policies on poverty and inequality, particularly those relating to gender, race and socio-economic status.

Mary's latest projects include:

Latest

CASEpapers

Making Work Pay? The labour market effects of capping child benefits in larger families

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...

Social Policies and Distributional Outcomes Research Papers

Public and private welfare activity in England, 1979 to 2019.

04 January 2023

Mary Reader and Tania Burchardt

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 part of the Social Policies and Distribut... Read more...

CASEpapers

The birthweight effects of universal child benefits in pregnancy: quasi-experimental evidence from England and Wales

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...

Social Policies and Distributional Outcomes Research Papers

The Conservative Governments' Record on Early Childhood from May 2015 to pre-COVID 2020: Policies, Spending and Outcomes

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...