History and Public Policy: population, public health, sociology and economics, politics and ideology
Arthur Viseltear Award 2009
American Public Health Association
In recognition of his distinguished body of scholarship in the history of public health
IPPR Economics Prize 2019
Institute of Public Policy Research, UK
Prize Essay titled 'Incentivising an Ethical Economics' co-authored with Hilary Cooper and Ben Szreter
Ellen McArthur Prize 1985 for the best PhD dissertation in Economic History
University of Cambridge
Title of the dissertation: 'The decline of marital fertility in England and Wales c. 1870-1914' (published by C.U.P in 1996: Fertility, Class and Gender in Britain, 1860-1940)