Top Social Policy reports 2009

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    21 December 2009

The five most read reports and commentary pieces in the area of Social Policy in 2009 were:

1. What's love got to do with it? Homogamy and dyadic approaches to understanding marital instability
Bruce Chapman, Rebecca Kippen, Peng Yu | HILDA Survey Research Conference 2009

2. What evidence should social policymakers use?
Andrew Leigh | Australian Treasury

3. Social inclusion and social citizenship -- towards a truly inclusive society
Matthew Thomas, Luke Buckmaster | Parliamentary Library

4. Poverty versus inequality
Robert Tanton | NATSEM

5. Real communities
Hugh Mackay | Griffith Review: Participation Society


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