Ms Mary Reader

Research Officer, CASE

Email:

m.reader@lse.ac.uk

Biography

Ms Mary Reader's current research interests are:

Child poverty and disadvantage
Social security and welfare reform
Early childhood
Education and health inequalities
The politics of gender, race and migration within the context of welfare state change

Mary's latest projects include:

Latest

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...