Books
2024. Reeves Aaron and Friedman S., Born to Rule: The making and remaking of the British elite, Harvard University Press.
2021. Greer S., Lynch J., Reeves Aaron, Falkenbach M., Gingrich J., Cylus J., and Bambra C., Ageing and Health: The Politics of Better Policies, Cambridge University Press.
Peer-reviewed articles
2024. Goodair B., Bach-Mortensen A., and Reeves Aaron, ‘Two sides of the same coin’? A longitudinal analysis evaluating whether financial austerity accelerated NHS privatisation in England 2013-2020, BMJ Public Health.
2024. Higgins K., Friedman S., and Reeves Aaron, “Outsiders on the inside”: how minoritised elites respond to racial inequality, Ethnic and Racial Studies.
2024. Bortun V., Friedman S., and Reeves Aaron, ‘We Didn’t Know What We Were Eating Tomorrow’: How Class Origin Shapes the Political Outlook of Members of the Parliament in Britain, Political Studies.
2024. Worth E., Muggleton N., and Reeves Aaron, Gendered processes of recruitment to elite higher educational institutions in mid-twentieth century Britain, Gender & History.
2024. Goodair B. and Reeves Aaron, The effect of health-care privatisation on the quality of care, The Lancet Public Health.
2024. Reeves Aaron, Fransham M., Stewart K., Reader M., Patrick R., Capping welfare payments for workless families increases employment and economic inactivity: Evidence from the UK's benefit cap, International Journal of Social Welfare.
2024. van Schalkwyk M., Garde A., Maani N., Hawkins B., Petticrew M., Reeves Aaron, McKee M., Agnogenic practices and corporate political strategy: the legitimation of UK gambling industry-funded youth education programmes, Health Promotion International.
2023. Henking C., Reeves Aaron, and Chrisinger B., Global inequalities in mental health problems: understanding the predictors of lifetime prevalence, treatment utilisation and perceived helpfulness across 111 countries, Preventive Medicine.
2023. Worth E. and Reeves Aaron, ‘I am almost the middle-class white man, aren’t I?’: elite women, education and occupational trajectories in late twentieth-century Britain, Contemporary British History.
2023. Friedman S., Ellersgaard C., Grau Larsen A., and Reeves Aaron, The Meaning of Merit: Talent versus Hard Work Legitimacy, Social Forces.
2023. Vasilescu C.L., McKee M., and Reeves Aaron, Quantitative Textual Analysis as a means to explore corporate interests in food safety, Health.
2023. Speed E., and Reeves Aaron, Why is Lived Experience Absent from Social Security Policymaking?, Journal of Social Policy.
2023. Wollburg C., Steinert J.S., Reeves Aaron, Nye E., Do cash transfers alleviate common mental disorders in low- and middle-income countries? A systematic review and meta-analysis, Plos One.
2023. Stewart K., Patrick R., and Reeves Aaron, A time of need: Exploring the changing poverty risk facing larger families in the UK, Journal of Social Policy.
2022. MacArthur D. and Reeves Aaron, The Unintended Consequences of Quantifying Quality: Does Ranking School Performance Shape the Geographical Concentration of Advantage?, American Journal of Sociology.
2022. Worth E., Reeves Aaron and Friedman S., Is there an old girls’ network? Girls’ schools and recruitment to the British elite, British Journal of Sociology of Education.
2022. Reeves Aaron and Sochas L., When do democratic transitions reduce or increase child mortality? Exploring the role of non-violent resistance, Social Science and Medicine.
2022. Reeves Aaron, Brown C., and Hanefeld J., Female political representation and the gender health gap: a cross-national analysis of 49 European countries, European Journal of Public Health.
2022. Sochas L. and Reeves Aaron, Does collective bargaining reduce health inequalities between labour market insiders and outsiders?, Socio-Economic Review.
2022. Bentley R., Mason K., Ronald R., Reeves Aaron, Simons K., Smith S., Baker E., Housing affordability and mental health: an analysis of generational change, Housing Studies.
2022. Goodair B. & Reeves Aaron, Outsourcing health-care services to the private sector and treatable mortality rates in England, 2013–20: an observational study of NHS privatisation, The Lancet Public Health. Replication
2022. de Vries R., Reeves Aaron, Geiger BB., Social class bias in welfare sanctioning judgements: Experimental evidence from a nationally representative sample, Social Policy and Administration.
2022. Thomson R.M., Igelstrom E., Purba A.K., Shimonovich M., Thomson H., McCartney G., Reeves Aaron, Leyland A., Pearce A., Katikireddi V. How do income changes impact on mental health and wellbeing for working-age adults? A systematic review and meta-analysis, The Lancet Public Health.
2022. Rigney G., Leith J., Lennon M., Reeves Aaron, Chrisinger B., The Association of Traumatic Brain Injury with Neurologic and Psychiatric Illnesses among Individuals Experiencing Homelessness: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis, Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved.
2022. Zaneva M., Guzman-Holst C., Reeves Aaron, Bowes L., The Impact of Monetary Poverty Alleviation Programs on Children’s and Adolescents’ Mental Health: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Across Low-, Middle-, and High-Income Countries, Journal of Adolescent Health.
2021. Degli Esposti M., Ziauddeen H., Bowes L., Reeves Aaron, Chekroud A., Humphreys D.K., Ford T., Trends in inpatient care for psychiatric disorders in NHS hospitals across England, 1998/99–2019/20: an observational time series analysis, Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology.
2021. Liu M., Luong L., Lachuad J., Edalati H., Reeves Aaron, Hwang S., Adverse childhood experiences and related outcomes among adults experiencing homelessness: a systematic review and meta-analysis, The Lancet Public Health.
2021. Reeves Aaron, Fransham M., Stewart K., Patrick R., Does capping social security harm health? A natural experiment in the UK, Social Policy and Administration.
2021. Reeves Aaron, Loopstra R., Tarasuk V., Family policy and food insecurity: an observational analysis in 142 countries, The Lancet Planetary Health.
2021. Gugushvili A. and Reeves Aaron, How democracy alters our view of inequality — and what it means for our health, Social Science and Medicine.
2021. de Vries R. and Reeves Aaron, What Does it Mean to be a Cultural Omnivore? Conflicting Visions of Omnivorousness in Empirical Research, Sociological Research Online.
2021. Reeves Aaron, The health effects of wage setting institutions: How collective bargaining improves health but not because it reduces inequality, Sociology of Health & Illness. Replication
2021. Koch I. and Reeves Aaron, From social security to state-sanctioned insecurity: How welfare reform mimics the commodification of labour through greater state intervention, Economy & Society. Open Access
2021. Reeves Aaron, Loopstra R., Tarasuk V., Wage-Setting Policies, Employment, and Food Insecurity: A Multilevel Analysis of 492,078 People in 139 Countries, American Journal of Public Health. Open AccessReplication
2021. Acharya A., Gerring J., and Reeves Aaron, Being close to an election does not make health more politically relevant: more experimental evidence during a global pandemic, BMJ Global Health. Replication
2020. Campbell M., Fredman S., and Reeves Aaron, Palliation or protection: How should the right to equality inform the government’s response to Covid-19?, International Journal of Discrimination and the Law.
2020. Acharya A., Gerring J., and Reeves Aaron, Is health politically irrelevant? Experimental evidence during a global pandemic, BMJ Global Health. Open AccessReplication
2020. Reeves Aaron and Loopstra R., The Continuing Effects of Welfare Reform on Food Bank use in the UK: The Roll-out of Universal Credit, Journal of Social Policy. Open AccessReplication
2020. Barlow P., Loopstra R., Tarasuk V., Reeves Aaron, Liberal trade policy and food insecurity across the income distribution: an observational analysis in 132 countries, 2014–17, The Lancet Global Health.
2020. Friedman S. and Reeves Aaron, From Aristocratic to Ordinary: Shifting Modes of Elite Distinction, American Sociological Review. Video descriptionOpen Access
2020. Gugushvili A., Reeves Aaron, and Jaroszc E., How do perceived changes in inequality affect health?, Health & Place.
2019. Reeves Aaron and Mackenbach J.P., Can inequalities in political participation explain health inequalities?, Social Science and Medicine. Open Access Replication
2019. Loopstra R., Reeves Aaron, Tarasuk V., The rise of hunger among low-income households: an analysis of the risks of food insecurity between 2004 and 2016 in a population-based study of UK adults, Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.
2019. Reeves Aaron, How class identities shape highbrow consumption: A cross-national analysis of 30 European countries and regions , Poetics. Open AccessReplication
2019. McArthur D. and Reeves Aaron, The Rhetoric of Recessions: How British Newspapers Talk about the Poor When Unemployment Rises, 1896–2000 , Sociology. Open AccessReplication
2019. Barlow P., Reeves Aaron, McKee M., Stuckler D. Employment relations and dismissal regulations: Does employment legislation protect the health of workers? , Social Policy and Administration.
2018. Miller M., Toffolutti V., Reeves Aaron, The enduring influence of institutions on universal health coverage: An empirical investigation of 62 former colonies , World Development. Open Access Replication
2018. Baker P., Hone T., Reeves Aaron, Avendano-Pabon M., and Millet C., Does government expenditure reduce inequalities in infant mortality rates in low- and middle-income countries?: A time-series, ecological analysis of 48 countries from 1993 to 2013 , Health Economics, Policy, and Law.
2018. Clair A., Reeves Aaron, McKee M., and Stuckler D., Constructing a housing precariousness measure for Europe , Journal of European Social Policy.
2018. Reeves Aaron and de Vries R., Can cultural consumption increase future earnings? Exploring the economic returns to cultural capital , British Journal of Sociology. Open AccessReplication
2018. Loopstra R., Fledderjohann J., Reeves Aaron, Stuckler D., Impact of Welfare Benefit Sanctioning on Food Insecurity: a Dynamic Cross-Area Study of Food Bank Usage in the UK , Journal of Social Policy.
2018. Lima J., Reeves Aaron, Clair A., Stuckler D., The Great Recession and inequalities in access to health care: a study of unemployment and unmet medical need in Europe in the economic crisis , International Journal of Epidemiology.
2017. Reeves Aaron, Friedman S., Rahal C., Flemmen M., The Decline and Persistence of the Old Boy: Private Schools and Elite Recruitment 1897 to 2016, American Sociological Review. Open Access Replication
2017. Pevalin D., Reeves Aaron, Baker E., Bentley R., The impact of persistent poor housing conditions on mental health: A longitudinal population-based study , Preventive Medicine.
2017. Reeves Aaron, Steele S., Stuckler D., McKee M., Amato-Gauci A., Semenza JC., Gender violence, poverty and HIV infection risk among persons engaged in the sex industry: cross-national analysis of the political economy of sex markets in 30 European and Central Asian countries , HIV Medicine. Open access
2017. Niedzwiedz CL, Katikireddi SV , Reeves Aaron, McKee M., Stuckler D., Economic insecurity during the Great Recession and metabolic, inflammatory and liver function biomarkers: analysis of the UK Household Longitudinal Study , Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.
2017. Reeves Aaron, Does sanctioning disabled claimants of unemployment insurance increase labour market inactivity? An analysis of 346 British local authorities between 2009 and 2014 , Journal of Poverty and Social Justice. Open access
2017. Lewer D., McKee M., Gasparrini A., Reeves Aaron, de Oliveira C., Socioeconomic position and mortality risk of smoking: evidence from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA) , European Journal of Public Health.
2017. Reeves Aaron, Loopstra R., Stuckler D., The growing disconnect between food prices and wages in Europe: cross-national analysis of food deprivation and welfare regimes in twenty-one EU countries, 2004–2012 , Public Health Nutrition. Open access
2017. Holman D., Lynch R., Reeves Aaron, How do health behaviour interventions take account of social context? A literature trend and co-citation analysis , Health.
2017. Reeves Aaron, McKee M., Steele S., Stuckler D., Amato-Gauci A., and Semenza J.C., National sex work policy and HIV prevalence among sex workers: an ecological regression analysis of 27 European countries , The Lancet HIV. Open access
2017. Reeves Aaron and Loopstra R., ‘Set up to Fail’? How Welfare Conditionality Undermines Citizenship for Vulnerable Groups, Social Policy and Society. Open access
2017. McKee, M., Reeves Aaron, Clair, A., and Stuckler D., Living on the edge: precariousness and why it matters for health, Archives of Public Health.
2017. Reeves Aaron, McKee M., Mackenbach J., Whitehead, M., Stuckler D., Public pensions and unmet medical need among older people: cross-national analysis of 16 European countries, 2004–2010 , Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.
2017. Toffolutti, V., Reeves Aaron, McKee M., Stuckler D., Outsourcing cleaning services increases MRSA incidence: Evidence from 126 English Acute Trusts , Social Science and Medicine.
2016. Reeves Aaron, Clair A., McKee M., Stuckler D., Reductions in the United Kingdom's Government Housing Benefit and Symptoms of Depression in Low-Income Households , American Journal of Epidemiology. Commentary Response
2016. Reeves Aaron, de Vries R., The social gradient in cultural consumption and the information-processing hypothesis , The Sociological Review.
2016. Vellakkal S., Bowling A., Doyle P., Reeves Aaron, Ebrahim S., Gupta A., Khan Z., Stuckler D., Has India’s National Rural Health Mission reduced inequities in maternal health services? A pre-post repeated cross sectional study , Health Policy and Planning.
2016. Stuckler D., Reeves Aaron, Loopstra R., McKee M., Did the Sugar Industry influence the 2015 World Health Organization Sugar Guidelines? Automated content analysis of textual changes , Bulletin of the World Health Organization.
2016. Barlow P., Reeves Aaron, McKee M., Galea G., Stuckler D., Time-discounting and tobacco smoking: a systematic review and network analysis , International Journal of Epidemiology.
2016. Clair A., Reeves Aaron, Loopstra R., McKee M., Dorling D., Stuckler D., The impact of housing payment problems on health status during economic recession: A comparative analysis of longitudinal EU SILC data of 27 European states, 2008-2010 , SSM - Population Health.
2016. Reeves Aaron and de Vries R., Does media coverage influence public attitudes towards welfare recipients? The impact of the 2011 English riots , British Journal of Sociology.
2016. Barlow P., Reeves Aaron, McKee M., Galea G., Stuckler D., Unhealthy diets, obesity and time discounting: a systematic literature review and network analysis , Obesity Reviews.
2016. Clair A., Reeves Aaron, Loopstra R., McKee M., Dorling D., Stuckler D., The impact of the housing crisis on self-reported health in Europe: multilevel longitudinal modelling of 27 EU countries , European Journal of Public Health.
2016. Loopstra R., Reeves Aaron, McKee M., Stuckler D., Food insecurity and social protection in Europe: Quasi-natural experiment of Europe's great recessions 2004–2012. , Preventive Medicine.
2016. Reeves Aaron, McKee M., Mackenbach J., Whitehead M., Stuckler D., Introduction of a National Minimum Wage Reduced Depressive Symptoms in Low-Wage Workers: A Quasi-Natural Experiment in the UK. , Health Economics.
2016. Lima J., Reeves Aaron, Billari F., McKee M., Stuckler D., Austerity and Abortion in the European Union. , European Journal of Public Health.
2015. Reeves Aaron, McKee M., Stuckler D., 'It's The Sun Wot Won It': evidence of media influence on political attitudes and voting from a UK quasi-natural experiment. , Social Science Research.
2015. Reeves Aaron, Stuckler D., Suicidality, economic shocks, and egalitarian gender norms , European Sociological Review.
2015. Barr B., Taylor-Robinson D., Stuckler D., Loopstra R., Reeves Aaron, Wickham S., Whitehead M., Fit-for-work or fit for unemployment? Does the reassessment of disability benefit claimants using a tougher work capability assessment help people into work? , Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.
2015. Reeves Aaron, Gilbert E., Holman D., Class dis-identification, cultural stereotypes, and music preferences: experimental evidence from the UK , Poetics.
2015. Barr B., Taylor-Robinson D., Stuckler D., Loopstra R., Reeves Aaron, Whitehead M., ‘First, do no harm’: are disability assessments associated with adverse trends in mental health? A longitudinal ecological study , Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.
2015. Reeves Aaron, McKee M., Stuckler D., The attack on Universal Health Coverage in Europe: recession, austerity, and unmet needs , European Journal of Public Health.
2015. Schram A., Labonte R., Baker P., Friel S., Reeves Aaron, Stuckler D., The role of trade and investment liberalization in the sugar-sweetened carbonated beverages market: a natural experiment contrasting Vietnam and the Philippines , Globalization and Health.
2015. Reeves Aaron, "Music's a family thing": Cultural socialization and parental transference , Cultural Sociology.
2015. Loopstra R., Reeves Aaron, Taylor-Robinson D., Barr B., McKee M., Stuckler D., The impact of economic downturns and budget cuts on homelessness claim rates across 323 local authorities in England, 2004-2012 , Journal of Public Health.
2015. Reeves Aaron, Basu S., McKee M., Sandgren A., Semenza J., Stuckler D., Tuberculosis control and economic recession: longitudinal study of data from 21 European countries, 1991–2012 , Bulletin of the World Health Organization.
2015. Barlow P., Reeves Aaron, McKee M., and Stuckler D., Austerity, Precariousness, and the Health Status of Greek Labour Market Participants: Retrospective cohort analysis of employed persons in 2008-2009 and 2010-2011 , Journal of Public Health Policy.
2015. Bentley R., Baker E., Beer A., Pevalin D., Reeves Aaron, Mason K., Housing Affordability, Tenure and Mental Health in Australia and the United Kingdom: A Comparative Panel Analysis , Housing Studies.
2015. Huijts T., Reeves Aaron, McKee M., Stuckler D., The Impacts of Job Loss and Recovery on Self-Rated Health: Testing the Mediating Role of Financial Strain and Income , European Journal of Public Health.
2015. Arora V., Karanikolos M., Clair A., Reeves Aaron, Stuckler D., McKee M., Data Resource Profile: The European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) , International Journal of Epidemiology.
2015. Loopstra R., Reeves Aaron, Stuckler D., Rising food insecurity in Europe , The Lancet.
2015. Loopstra R., Reeves Aaron, Taylor-Robinson D., Barr B., McKee M., Stuckler D., Austerity, sanctions, and the rise of food banks in the UK , British Medical Journal .
2015. Reeves Aaron, Gourtsoyannis Y, Basu S., McCoy D., McKee M., Stuckler D., Financing universal health coverage: effects of alternative tax structures on public health systems in 89 low- and middle-income countries , The Lancet.
2015. Glonti K., Gordeev V., Goryakin Y., Reeves Aaron, Stuckler D., McKee M., Roberts B., A systematic review on health resilience to economic crises , PLOS One.
2014. Reeves Aaron, Karanikolos M., Mackenbach J., McKee M., Stuckler D., Do Employment Protection Policies Reduce the Relative Disadvantage in the Labour Market experienced by Unhealthy People? A natural experiment created by the Great Recession in Europe , Social Science and Medicine.
2014. Reeves Aaron, Neither class nor status: arts participation and the social strata , Sociology.
2014. Reeves Aaron, McKee M., Gunnell D., Chang S-S., Basu S., Barr B., Stuckler D., Economic shocks, resilience, and male suicides in the Great Recession: cross-national analysis of 20 EU countries , European Journal of Public Health.
2014. Reeves Aaron, Basu S., McKee M., Stuckler D., Sandgren A., Semenza J., Social protection and tuberculosis control: cross-national analysis of 21 EU Member States 1995-2012 , The Lancet Infectious Diseases. Commentary
2014. Reeves Aaron, Cultural engagement across the life-course: examining age-period-cohort effects , Cultural Trends.
2014. Stuckler D., Reeves Aaron, Karanikolos M. and McKee M., The health effects of the global financial crisis: can we reconcile the differing views? A network analysis of literature across disciplines , Health Economics, Policy and Law.
2014. Kentikelenis A., Karanikolos M., Reeves Aaron, McKee M., Stuckler D., Greece’s health crisis: from austerity to denialism, The Lancet. CommentariesReply
2014. Reeves Aaron, McKee M., Stuckler D., Economic suicides in the Great Recession in Europe and North America , British Journal of Psychiatry.
2013. Reeves Aaron, Basu S., McKee M., Stuckler D., The political economy of austerity and healthcare: cross-national analysis of expenditure changes in 27 European nations 1995-2011 , Health Policy.
2013. Reeves Aaron, Basu S., McKee M., Meissner C., Stuckler D., Does investment in the health sector promote or inhibit economic growth? , Globalization & Health.
2013. Reeves Aaron, Basu S., McKee M., Marmot M., Stuckler D., Austere or not? UK Coalition government budgets and health inequalities , Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine.
2013. McDaid D, Quaglio G, Correia de Campos A, Dario C, Van Woensel L, Karapiperis T, Reeves Aaron, Health protection in times of economic crisis: Challenges and opportunities for Europe , Journal of Public Health Policy.
2012. Reeves Aaron, Stuckler D., McKee M., Gunnell D., Chang S-S., Basu S. Increase in state suicide rates in the USA during economic recession , The Lancet. Commentaries Reply
2012. Reeves Aaron, Social stratification, gender and sport participation , Sociological Research Online.