Funding for preventative Children’s Services and rates of children becoming looked after: A natural experiment using longitudinal area-level data in England

Conceptualising natural and quasi experiments in public health

(2021) Frank de Vocht et al.   BMC Medical Research Methodology

Impact of cuts to local government spending on Sure Start children’s centres on childhood obesity in England: a longitudinal ecological study

(2021) Kate E Mason et al.   JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY AND COMMUNITY HEALTH

Local government funding and life expectancy in England: a longitudinal ecological study

(2021) Alexandros Alexiou et al.   Lancet Public Health

Are Child Welfare Intervention Rates Higher or Lower in Areas Targeted for Enhanced Early Years Services?

(2021) Jonathan Scourfield et al.   Child Abuse Review

Association between Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and child maltreatment among a cohort of fragile families

(2021) Rachael A. Spencer et al.   CHILD ABUSE & NEGLECT

Is austerity responsible for the recent change in mortality trends across high-income nations? A protocol for an observational study

(2020) Gerry McCartney et al.   BMJ Open

Health equity in England: the Marmot review 10 years on

(2020) Michael Marmot   BMJ-British Medical Journal

Association of childhood out-of-home care status with all-cause mortality up to 42-years later: Office of National Statistics Longitudinal Study

(2020) Emily T. Murray et al.   BMC PUBLIC HEALTH

Trajectories of childhood adversity and mortality in early adulthood: a population-based cohort study

(2020) Naja H Rod et al.   LANCET

Using natural experimental studies to guide public health action: turning the evidence-based medicine paradigm on its head

(2019) David Ogilvie et al.   JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY AND COMMUNITY HEALTH

Making the most of natural experiments: What can studies of the withdrawal of public health interventions offer?

(2018) Peter Craig et al.   PREVENTIVE MEDICINE

Reductions in the United Kingdom's Government Housing Benefit and Symptoms of Depression in Low-Income Households

(2016) Aaron Reeves et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY

Effectiveness of a nurse-led intensive home-visitation programme for first-time teenage mothers (Building Blocks): a pragmatic randomised controlled trial

(2016) Michael Robling et al.   LANCET

The impact of fiscal austerity on suicide mortality: Evidence across the ‘Eurozone periphery’

(2015) Nikolaos Antonakakis et al.   SOCIAL SCIENCE & MEDICINE

Trends in mental health inequalities in England during a period of recession, austerity and welfare reform 2004 to 2013

(2015) Ben Barr et al.   SOCIAL SCIENCE & MEDICINE

Power failure: why small sample size undermines the reliability of neuroscience

(2013) Katherine S. Button et al.   NATURE REVIEWS NEUROSCIENCE

Using natural experiments to evaluate population health interventions: new Medical Research Council guidance

(2012) Peter Craig et al.   JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY AND COMMUNITY HEALTH

Negative Controls

(2010) Marc Lipsitch et al.   EPIDEMIOLOGY

Internal and External Validity in Economics Research: Tradeoffs between Experiments, Field Experiments, Natural Experiments, and Field Data

(2009) Brian E. Roe et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS

Child maltreatment prevention: a systematic review of reviews

(2009) Christopher Mikton et al.   BULLETIN OF THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION