Mark Fransham

Quant social scientist @DSPI_Oxford: poverty, spatial inequality, social policy, demography, rstats | visitor @LSEinequalities

[Mark Fransham @markfransham]

Many thanks to our funders @nuffieldfound who funded these reports, and the wider programme of work on welfare reform and larger families. See more at https://t.co/vqctyovwu9

[Mark Fransham @markfransham]

Our new research on the benefit cap, published today by @CASE_LSE and reported by @guardian, shows that thousands of families are being put at risk of destitution by a policy that drives family incomes down to very low levels https://t.co/ndGarxGMAv

[Mark Fransham @markfransham]

Read the full reports here with co-authors @KateAndersen_, @ruthpatrick0, @aaronsreeves, @kittyjstewart https://t.co/jOTuU9Zwo4

[Pawel Bukowski @pwlbukowski]

N. American (🇨🇦🇺🇸) regions are more unequal than W. European (🇫🇷🇩🇪🇬🇧)-measured by income share of the top 20% richest workers within a place. In Europe,🇩🇪regions visibly more unequal.
Our new LSE CEP paper: https://t.co/GBlBtAJy0I
@CEP_LSE @UCLSSEES @uclnews @LSEInequalities

[British Society for Population Studies - BSPS @bspsUK]

Council of @bspsuk strongly condems the suspension of Professor KS James, director of the International Institute for Population Studies (IIPS):

[British Society for Population Studies - BSPS @bspsUK]

Hello you early birds... 2 more weeks to go to book the best rate at #BSPS2023- packed with new #demography research - looking to be a lively one! Full programme & booking: https://t.co/R7zqZjIOXV

[The Economist @TheEconomist]

📈 If you would like to work at the intersection of data science, journalism and computational social science and share your research with The Economist’s influential global audience, please get in touch https://t.co/hmTp8jXefj

[James Fransham @JamesFransham]

Buoyed by students, workers and humanitarian flows, migration to Britain reached a record high last year. But remarkably, after Brexit, the country has become far more pro-migration. My take: https://t.co/QUJbqK4l9j

[James Fransham @JamesFransham]

This week’s @TheEconomist cover is a piece from @GeorgiaBanjo and me on Britain’s “missing quarter of a million”. Not covid. But a decade of deaths. Read our editorial leader on what Britain can do to improve its flagging life expectancy. (a 🧵 1/8)
https://t.co/XVB0W2R8oc

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[Ben Goodair @BenGoodair]

New @guardian editorial citing our @DSPI_Oxford research.

"Privatisation of children’s residential care in England over the past decade has resulted in worse outcomes. This has long been suspected... Researchers at @UniofOxford have now supplied proof."

https://t.co/bZ7aDNGRhi

[Oxford DSPI @DSPI_Oxford]

New study by @AMBachMortensen, @BenGoodair and Jane Barlow explores growth in for-profit provision of outsourced children’s services and links with out of area and unstable placements. Find out more: