Items where Author is "Patrick, Ruth"

Number of items: 29.
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  • Does cutting child benefits reduce fertility in larger families? Evidence from the UK’s two-child limit. (2025) Reader, Mary; Portes, Jonathan; Patrick, Ruth picture_as_pdf
  • 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". (2025) Stewart, Kitty; Andersen, Kate; Patrick, Ruth; Reader, Mary; Reeves, Aaron picture_as_pdf
  • Does capping social security harm health? A natural experiment in the UK. (2022) Reeves, Aaron; Fransham, Mark; Stewart, Kitty; Patrick, Ruth picture_as_pdf
  • Capping welfare payments for workless families increases employment and economic inactivity:evidence from the UK's benefit cap. Reeves, Aaron; Fransham, Mark; Stewart, Kitty; Reader, Mary; Patrick, Ruth picture_as_pdf
  • It's the kids that suffer’:exploring how the UK's benefit cap and two-child limit harm children. Andersen, Kate; Redman, Jamie; Stewart, Kitty; Patrick, Ruth picture_as_pdf
  • The sins of the parents:conceptualizing adult-oriented reforms to family benefits. Stewart, Kitty; Patrick, Ruth; Reeves, Aaron picture_as_pdf
  • A time of need:exploring the changing poverty risk facing larger families in the UK. Stewart, Kitty; Patrick, Ruth; Reeves, Aaron picture_as_pdf
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  • Inaccurate, exploitative, and very popular: the problem with ‘Poverty Porn’. Patrick, Ruth
  • The realities of living on welfare are significantly different from government and media characterisations. Patrick, Ruth
  • Working paper
  • Did the introduction of the benefit cap in Britain harm mental health? A natural experiment approach. Reeves, Aaron Samuel; Fransham, Mark James; Stewart, Kitty Judith; Patrick, Ruth picture_as_pdf
  • Making work pay? The labour market effects of capping child benefits in larger families. Reader, Mary; Andersen, Kate; Patrick, Ruth; Reeves, Aaron; Stewart, Kitty picture_as_pdf
  • The sins of the parents:conceptualising adult-oriented reforms to family policy. Stewart, Kitty; Patrick, Ruth; Reeves, Aaron picture_as_pdf
  • A time of need:exploring the changing poverty risk facing larger families in the UK. Stewart, Kitty; Reeves, Aaron; Patrick, Ruth picture_as_pdf
  • The two-child limit & 'choices' over family size:when policy presentation collides with lived experiences. Patrick, Ruth; Andersen, Kate picture_as_pdf
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  • Abolishing the two-child limit is just the start for tackling child poverty. Stewart, Kitty; Patrick, Ruth picture_as_pdf
  • Budget 2021:a missed opportunity to make permanent the £20 increase to Universal Credit. Patrick, Ruth; Garthwaite, Kayleigh; Page, Geoff; Power, Maddy; Pybus, Katie picture_as_pdf
  • Building back better:to end poverty, the government must listen to and learn from all forms of expertise. Garthwaite, Kayleigh; Page, Geoff; Patrick, Ruth; Power, Maddy picture_as_pdf
  • COVID-19 and low-income families:the government must lift the benefit cap and remove the two-child limit. Patrick, Ruth; Reeves, Aaron; Stewart, Kitty picture_as_pdf
  • Covid-19 and low-income families:why the chancellor’s ‘eat out to help out’ offer is hard to stomach. Power, Maddy; Patrick, Ruth; Garthwaite, Kayleigh picture_as_pdf
  • Cuts and caps to benefits have always harmed people, not helped them into work. Patrick, Ruth; Reeves, Aaron picture_as_pdf
  • More, please, for those with less:why we need to go further on the Universal Credit uplift. Cameron, Claire; Dewar, Laura; Fitzpatrick, Ciara; Garthwaite, Kayleigh; Griffiths, Rita; Hill, Katherine; Ladlow, Linzi; McHardy, Fiona; Millar, Jane; Patrick, Ruth; Pickett, Kate; Reader, Mary; Robertshaw, David; Scullion, Lisa; Summers, Kate; Tarrant, Anna; Webber, Ruth picture_as_pdf
  • School uniform costs are a source of financial and emotional stress for families living on a low income. Page, Geoff; Power, Maddy; Patrick, Ruth picture_as_pdf
  • What Scotland's policies can teach Westminster about fighting poverty. Patrick, Ruth; Andersen, Kate; Stewart, Kitty; Tominey, Emma picture_as_pdf
  • What would a post-COVID-19 social security system look like, and how might it be built? Now is the time to explore alternative ways forward. Kaufman, Jim; Patrick, Ruth picture_as_pdf
  • When the cap really doesn’t fit:populist policymaking and the benefit cap. Patrick, Ruth; Warnock, Rosalie; Reeves, Aaron; Stewart, Kitty; Andersen, Kate; Reader, Mary picture_as_pdf
  • Why we can’t understand child poverty in the UK without thinking about family size. Stewart, Kitty; Reeves, Aaron; Patrick, Ruth picture_as_pdf
  • The cost of living crisis shows how much inequality matters, and how it affects everyday life. Patrick, Ruth picture_as_pdf
  • The cost-of-living budget:why it’s time to focus more squarely on need. Patrick, Ruth; Stewart, Kitty; Warnock, Rosalie picture_as_pdf
  • The most vulnerable households have been forgotten in the cost-of-living crisis and the consequences will be devastating. It’s time to scrap the benefit cap. Stewart, Kitty; Patrick, Ruth picture_as_pdf