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Alice Reid

@amrcampop.bsky.social
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Historical demographer at CAMPOP, Geography Dept Cambridge University. See also PopulationsPast.org. Views my own.

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Alice Reid @amrcampop.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Interested in a PhD in historical demography/population studies at @camunicampop.bsky.social, @camunigeography.bsky.social, Cambridge University? We have 3 suggested topics (see thread): contact me to discuss, or to suggest your own idea. Apply by early December for funded places.
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Alice Reid @amrcampop.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Deeply honoured to have been elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences @acadsocsciences.bsky.social Looking forward to being part of this august group and being a champion for social sciences! @camunigeography.bsky.social @camunicampop.bsky.social @churchillcol.bsky.social @cam.ac.uk
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John Levin @anterotesis.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
And more #PublicDomain books I've got Google to release from 'snippet view': Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office: books.google.co.uk/books?id=zys... Sample Census 1966 books.google.co.uk/books?id=fyo... Consolidated list of Govt publications, 1925: books.google.co.uk/books?id=cyd...
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Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office: British Isles, c. 1410-1860
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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 15/06/2026
As is the annual tradition, we hope many of you will take the opportunity to use the Climate Stripes this week to start important conversations about the risks from, and solutions to, climate change. Officially, #ShowYourStripes for 2026 is on Sat 20th June. www.ShowYourStripes.info
Global Climate Stripes
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Jon Agar @jonagar.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Please help spread the news far and wide! We have a new, full-time, permanent Lecturer in Global History of Science job @stsucl.bsky.social Don't be fooled by the application of deadline of only 9 June 2026. This is an open search #histsci #skystorians www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
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Dr Mary @maryabedalahad.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
We are recruiting for a PhD student who will be studying jointly between Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research and University of St Andrews, More information are attached. @phrg-standrews.bsky.social @cpc-cg.bsky.social @bspsuk.bsky.social
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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
The Population Investigation Committee is recruiting for an Editor-in-Chief or team of Editors-in-Chief for Population Studies: A journal of demography. files.taylorandfrancis.com/rpst-call-fo...
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Kris Inwood @kris-inwood.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
"Using an innovative blend of record linkage, machine learning, and historical geocoding, the team ... will give an unprecedented, population-scale view of life over this period, and unlock questions about major social, economic, and demographic changes that were once impossible to answer."
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Alice Reid @amrcampop.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Exciting new census-linking project about to start at @camunicampop.bsky.social !
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Alexis Litvine @alexislitvine.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
In the next five years, we are going to do LOTS of census linking 🔗🔗🔗🔗🔗, produce new transcriptions of all UK censuses 1841-1921, and use these to study migrations and demographic transitions, thanks to @ukri.org ! Sneak peek at: www.geolinking.hist.cam.ac.uk
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geolinking.hist.cam.ac.uk
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Alice Reid @amrcampop.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
🆕PopulationsPast.org now has cause- and age-specific mortality rates, and age- and sex-specific net migration rates! For example, in 1871 external causes of death (accidents, violence and suicide) among young adults was highest in industrial and fishing areas www.populationspast.org/vio1544/1871...
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GREATLEAP COST Action @thegreatleap22116.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Call for Papers: Workshop “Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WaSH) interventions – the long view”. Cambridge, 15–16 June 2026. Papers on historical/comparative WaSH, sanitation, disease, and public health. 🧵⬇️
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Population Research Centre Groningen @popresgroningen.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Curious about our Master's in Population Studies? Explore how migration, ageing, and family dynamics shape our world. Join our info event on Friday, 13 March at 13:00 & 14:00 in room 5419-0009, University of Groningen, @frw-rug.bsky.social Register here 👉 www.rug.nl/education/ma...
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Master's Open Day
Have you already looked at our website and brochures but do you want to know more? Then visit our Master's Open Day! The next Master's Open Day will take...
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Eric Schneider @ericbschneider.com · 23/02/2026
What is child stunting — and how has it changed over the last 200 years? Stunting means being too short for one’s age due to chronic undernutrition and disease in early life. It’s one of the clearest markers of cumulative deprivation in childhood. 1)
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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
"Should the social sciences primarily focus on analysing the world - or should they try to help fix its problems? To crystallise this question I ask: why is there no ‘ARIA for social issues’? [ARIA is the relatively new institution created in the UK to back breakthrough innovations in science]"
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An ARIA for social issues?
The case for exploratory social science
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
The UK university sector has gone beyond the red line and is now in a stage of rapid decomposition. Only a fundamental reset could save whole chunks of it. Probably too late for large parts. blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...
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Why are UK universities failing? - Impact of Social Sciences
The HE sector in the UK faces the prospect of a university going into administration. How have universities fallen so low and is change possible?
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Cambridge Group for the History of Population & Social Structure @camunicampop.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
📣New blog post alert!📣 Christoph Hess shares his research uncovering the forgotten history of Chinese serfs who picked tea leaves on the mountainous slopes of East China - tea leaves that were then enjoyed in homes across Victorian England. www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog
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The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure, Cambridge
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Sheilagh Ogilvie @sheilaghogilvie.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
How epidemic disease offers new perspectives on economic history—and vice versa. Honoured to blog for @camunicampop.bsky.social about my new book “Controlling Contagion”: www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog/2025/11... ‪@oxford-esh.bsky.social‬‬‬ @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social @PrincetonUPress
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Eric Schneider @ericbschneider.com · 05/11/2025
Curious about using census microdata in your research? 📊 Join us for a webinar on IPUMS International, the world’s leading repository of harmonized census data. 🗓️ 12 Nov 2025 | 🕒 15:15–16:30 UK | 💻 Zoom Register: forms.gle/oqTDNU4Zpn2s... Hosted by the LSE Historical Economic Demography Group.
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Register for IPUMs International Online Session
Please use this form to register for the IPUMs International Session hosted by the Historical Economic Demography Group at LSE. The session will be on Zoom from 15:15-16:30 UK Time on 12 November 202...
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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Postdoc at the Minnesota Population Center, @minnpop.bsky.social Applications open now and being evaluated on a rolling basis. Pass on to demographers you know! (This one requires folks to relocate to the Twin Cities, because it involves work in the restricted data center)
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Alexis Litvine @alexislitvine.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Research by @emvchung.bsky.social one of @camunicampop.bsky.social brilliant PhD students in the Guardian today www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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Friedrich Engels ‘took creative liberties’ with descriptions of class divides in Manchester
Cambridge historian Emily Chung finds philosopher’s blistering depictions of segregation may have been exaggerated
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Emily Chung @emvchung.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Was Manchester really as segregated as Engels said? What kept the rich and poor apart.... if anything? My first article is out today in @historicaljnl.bsky.social and I'm so pleased to share it with you all! doi:10.1017/S0018246X25101246 @stjohnscollege.bsky.social @camunicampop.bsky.social
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Alice Reid @amrcampop.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
"Friedrich Engels 'took creative liberties' with descriptions of class divides in Manchester": @camunicampop.bsky.social PhD student Emily Chung's work featured in @theguardian.com today www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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Friedrich Engels ‘took creative liberties’ with descriptions of class divides in Manchester
Cambridge historian Emily Chung finds philosopher’s blistering depictions of segregation may have been exaggerated
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Hampton Gaddy @hggaddy.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
🚨 The Economist has been telling you for years that polygamy causes civil war by locking men out of marriage. A new article with @rebeccasear.bsky.social and @anthrolog.bsky.social explains that the demography of marriage markets doesn't actually work that way. 🧵 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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High rates of polygyny do not lock large proportions of men out of the marriage market | PNAS
There is a widespread belief, in both the scholarly literature and the popular press, that polygyny prevents large numbers of men from marrying by ...
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LSE Methodology @lsemethodology.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
We're hiring an Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science ❗ 📚 jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... Apply before 26 October and join an internationally outstanding group of social science methodologists 🌎
we're hiring assistant professor in computational social science, applications close 26/10/2025
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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Reflections on the #BSPS2025 conference, one of my favourites (after >20 years of conferencing). This year it was held at the beautiful campus on Swansea Bay (sadly didn’t get a pic of the delicious Welsh cakes that came out at afternoon tea!) 🧵
View from the conference location towards Swansea and the Mumbles (Mumbles lighthouse just visible if you really squint)View from the conference location towards Port Talbot (now decommissioned steelworks just visible if you squint)
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Alice Reid @amrcampop.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Proud winners of the #BSPS2025 conference quiz!
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Satu Helske @satuhelske.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Come work on my new research project! We are studying whether and how #parentalLeave is shared in different types of families, how the use of parental leave has changed in different families since the 2000s, and how parents’ social environments influence their leave uptake. #research #hiring
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Hampton Gaddy @hggaddy.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
📢 Interested in excess mortality methods, and want a challenge? I'm organising the "One Epidemic, Many Estimates" (1EME) project! Register *now* as a many analyst team (submissions due 15 March 2026), and then join us at LSE for a workshop on 21-22 May 2026! (1/n) www.lse.ac.uk/Economic-His...
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One Epidemic, Many Estimates (1EME)
One Epidemic, Many Estimates (1EME)
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Alice Reid @amrcampop.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Great commentary on our broken university sector from @zoesqwilliams.bsky.social. Obviously it's a bit more complicated here and there, but she only had about 800 words www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Tuition fees are rising again and nobody is happy – it’s time to actually fix our broken university sector | Zoe Williams
The figures simply don’t add up for higher education in England and Wales. Yet delusional politicians from all parties seem intent on avoiding the issue, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams
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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 06/08/2025
Are you an early-career historian interested in radical, public and digital history? We are currently looking for two part-time, paid Editorial Fellows to join History Workshop. Deadline is at midnight on 15th August. See below for more details! www.historyworkshop....
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Call for Applications: Editorial Fellowships at History Workshop, 2025
History Workshop is advertising two part-time, paid Editorial Fellowships in 2025, open to early career historians.
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Heini Väisänen @heinivaisanen.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
We are looking for a postdoc to work for the @soc-misc.bsky.social project. The post is based at the University of At Andrews in Scotland and focuses on analysing administrative and census data on #miscarriage. Let me or Katy Keenan know if you have any questions. More info below 👇
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Neil Johnston @nejohnst.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
We're recruiting for a new role in the Early Modern team at TNA to help us integrate the Parliamentary Archives. I'm looking for someone with an expertise in pre-modern Westminster Parliament so we can join the executive, legislative and judicial collections www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOD893/r...
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Records Specialist - Early Modern Parliament at The National Archives
Start your UK & international job search for academic jobs, research jobs, science jobs and managerial jobs in leading universities and top...
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Prof. Elaine Chalus @profelainechalus.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
College Lectureship and Fellowship in British History- University of Cambridge - Christ's College #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOE394/c...
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College Lectureship and Fellowship in British History at University of Cambridge
Discover an exciting academic career path as a College Lectureship and Fellowship in British History at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!
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Bastien Chabe-Ferret (he/his/him) @bastiencf.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Super interesting blogpost on population growth in England over the past few centuries!
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Alice Reid @amrcampop.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
We've done it: 60 blogs over our 60th Anniversary Year! Check out all 60 #Campop blogs here www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog/, and keep your eyes peeled for occasional blogs to follow in the same space! @camunicampop.bsky.social @camunigeography.bsky.social @camhistory.bsky.social
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The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure, Cambridge
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Alice Reid @amrcampop.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Campop blog #60: According to the Demographic Transition Model, populations grow because economic growth leads to mortality decline. Population pressure then leads to fertility decline. But this was not what happened in England ... @camunicampop.bsky.social www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog/2025/07...
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Cambridge Geography @camunigeography.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Follow us and our research units ‪@scottpolar.bsky.social‬ ‪@conservation.cam.ac.uk‬ @camunicampop.bsky.social‬
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Cambridge Geography @camunigeography.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Expect to see research highlights, event announcements, student successes, and fascinating geographical insights. Want to learn more about our journey? Check out our history here: www.geog.cam.ac.uk/alumni/early...
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Department of Geography, Cambridge » A brief history of the early years of the Department 1888-1960
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Cambridge Geography @camunigeography.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Hello Bluesky community! The Department of Geography of the University of Cambridge is here and we're excited to share our passion for understanding the world. We explore everything from climate change and urbanisation to cultural landscapes and GIS mapping.
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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Want to know why demographers aren't panicking over low birth rates? @lesja.bsky.social, @shelleydclark.bsky.social, & I have a new piece in @theconversation.com explaining the faulty logic that underlies the low birth rate-induced population panic than fuels the pronatalism movement. 1/n
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Fears that falling birth rates in US could lead to population collapse are based on faulty assumptions
While the changes in population structure that accompany low birth rates are real, the impact of these changes has been dramatically overstated.
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Alice Reid @amrcampop.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Welcome to Bluesky @camunigeography.bsky.social!
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Alice Reid @amrcampop.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Campop blog #59: Some say rises in lone motherhood since c.1950 indicate breakdown of the nuclear family & call for returns to Victorian values. But 19C levels of lone parenthood & reconstituted families were similar to today's ... @camunicampop.bsky.social www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog/2025/07...
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The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure, Cambridge
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Jenn Dowd @drjenndowd.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
I really enjoyed this, particularly the vivid description of an AI-like PhD student open.substack.com/pub/clauswil...
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PhD-level intelligence or the graduate student from hell
AI companies love to tout that their models are approaching—or have reached—PhD-level intelligence. This is blatant nonsensical marketing geared towards an audience that deeply misunderstands what a P...
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Alice Reid @amrcampop.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Campop blog #58: Malthusian ideas about the effects of population pressure on resources and the environment are still widespread. But what did Malthus actually say? And was he right? Romola Davenport explains. @camunicampop.bsky.social www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog/2025/07...
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Jenn Dowd @drjenndowd.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Happy World Population Day! A reminder that the World and US populations are still growing, not declining. jenndowd.substack.com/p/is-our-pop... #demography #worldpopulationday
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Jenn Dowd @drjenndowd.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Re-upping for World Population Day! Rather than panic about current birth rates, let’s invest in the education, health, & happiness of the 8 billion precious humans alive now & the billions more still on the way in our lifetimes. #demography #worldpopulationday
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Alice Reid @amrcampop.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Campop blog #57: Unlike other countries (eg France) the geography of inewuality in the UK has been remarkably persistent over time. Today's blog explores the historical roots of disparities in mortality, fertility & deprivation @camunicampop.bsky.social www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog/2025/07...
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Alice Reid @amrcampop.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Campop blog #56: >1 in 3 English men in the late 14th C were called John; in 2023 less than 1% of baby boys were given the most popular name, Muhammad. In today's blog Kevin Schurer charts the long evolution of British forenames @camunicampop.bsky.social www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog/2025/07...
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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
What Do People Want From a Welfare System? [UK] "people were more likely to choose a scheme the more it reduced poverty. Respondents were prepared to trade off lower income taxes, even center-right voters, for poverty reductions. Taxes on wealth & carbon emissions were positively valued"
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Poverty & Public Policy | PSO Journal | Wiley Online Library
What do people want from a welfare system? Previous research has suggested a list of desiderata, such as that the system: reduces poverty; reduces inequality; improves mental and physical health; cos...
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