Really pleased to see our global stunting data up on our world in data. We hope it helps people contextualise child stunting in a much longer historical lens. Thanks to Hannah and Tuna for visualising and explaining the data so well! The link to the original paper is here: doi.org/10.1136/bmjg...

Our World in Data@ourworldindata.org · 3mo ago

✍️ New article: “Childhood stunting fell dramatically over the 20th century” One in four children in the world today suffers from “stunting”. That’s 150 *million* children under five. A stunted child is too short for their age due to poor nutrition and frequent infections.

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Departmental Lectureship in Economic and Social History at University of Oxford

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Really pleased to see @hggaddy.bsky.social’s work recognised with this prize. It’s an important and extremely well-executed paper. Congratulations!

IPUMS@ipums.bsky.social · 3mo ago

IPUMS International Student Award is a tie! * @hggaddy.bsky.social for "High rates of polygyny do not lock large proportions of men out of the marriage market" (doi.org/10.1073/pnas...).

✍ New post on Global Health at LSE! 'Child stunting was once common in rich countries. Lessons from global history on its decline.' @ericbschneider.bsky.social on his team's recent systematic review in BMJ Global Health: bit.ly/4uE2KFH #childhealth #childnutrition #globalhealth

Child stunting was once common in rich countries. Lessons from global history on its decline. - LSE Global Health

In this week's blog post, Professor Eric B. Schneider (LSE Economic History) writes on his research team's recently published work in BMJ Global Health on child stunting: how lessons from the past can...

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🆕PopulationsPast.org now has cause- and age-specific mortality rates, and age- and sex-specific net migration rates! For example, in 1871 external causes of death (accidents, violence and suicide) among young adults was highest in industrial and fishing areas www.populationspast.org/vio1544/1871...

Btw the data from the paper is available here: dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo… The paper is open access online. Thanks to all my coauthors for their contributions! @julianajaramilloe.bsky.social @gregorigv.bsky.social @evanrobertsnz.bsky.social @kris-inwood.bsky.social

Eric Schneider@ericbschneider.com · 5mo ago

1/ Why do many WASH interventions have limited effects on child stunting? Our historical data suggest something surprising: Sanitation infrastructure alone often wasn’t enough, even in the past. New BMJ Global Health paper 👇 doi.org/10.1136/bmjg...

1/ Why do many WASH interventions have limited effects on child stunting? Our historical data suggest something surprising: Sanitation infrastructure alone often wasn’t enough, even in the past. New BMJ Global Health paper 👇 doi.org/10.1136/bmjg...

"Many current HICs had high levels of child stunting in the early 20th century, but there was heterogeneity: stunting was low in Scandinavia, European settler colonies & Caribbean, higher in Western Europe & exceptionally high in Japan & South Korea. Child stunting declined across the 20th century"

The decline of child stunting in 122 countries: a systematic review of child growth studies since the 19th century

Introduction Child stunting, a measure of malnutrition, is a major global health challenge affecting 148.1 million children in 2022. Global stunting rates have declined from 47.2% in 1985 to 22.3% in ...

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What is child stunting — and how has it changed over the last 200 years? Stunting means being too short for one’s age due to chronic undernutrition and disease in early life. It’s one of the clearest markers of cumulative deprivation in childhood. 1)

The Economic History Review has published a virtual issue collecting the contributions of 2025 Nobel Laureate Joel Mokyr in the journal. I had the privilege of writing the introductory essay. You can read it here, together with Joel's articles and reviews. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...

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Deadline Monday! 24 November is the new deadline for New Researcher Poster proposals for the 2026 EHS Centenary Conference, which will be hosted at the LSE, 10–12 April 2026. Posters are eligible to win a prize of £100. More info and to apply: ehs.org.uk/conference/n...

Up next in the London Universities Population Seminar Series: On 25 November at 12:45, Dr Isadora Cruxên (QMUL) will present “Co-creating feminist technology to confront gender-based violence and feminicide.” Join us in G08 (Keppel Street) or online: www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...

Co-creating feminist technology to confront gender-based violence and feminicide

How can technology support social justice struggles against gender-based violence and feminicide? This talk explores this question through the work of “Data Against Feminicide”, a collaborative

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Just a reminder to sign up for this webinar on IPUMS International on Wednesday!

Eric Schneider@ericbschneider.com · 9mo ago

Curious about using census microdata in your research? 📊 Join us for a webinar on IPUMS International, the world’s leading repository of harmonized census data. 🗓️ 12 Nov 2025 | 🕒 15:15–16:30 UK | 💻 Zoom Register: forms.gle/oqTDNU4Zpn2s... Hosted by the LSE Historical Economic Demography Group.

Hi all, please spread the word and we hope everyone can make good use of this new data drop: cmfdata.org The full surviving establishment-level Census of Manufactures manuscripts and digitized data from 1850, 1860, 1870, and 1880!

Curious about using census microdata in your research? 📊 Join us for a webinar on IPUMS International, the world’s leading repository of harmonized census data. 🗓️ 12 Nov 2025 | 🕒 15:15–16:30 UK | 💻 Zoom Register: forms.gle/oqTDNU4Zpn2s... Hosted by the LSE Historical Economic Demography Group.

Register for IPUMs International Online Session

Please use this form to register for the IPUMs International Session hosted by the Historical Economic Demography Group at LSE. The session will be on Zoom from 15:15-16:30 UK Time on 12 November 202...

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Kicking off London Universities Population Seminars for the new academic year! Join us Oct 28 in person (LSE, KSW.G.01) or online to hear from Prof Karen Glaser (KCL) on mental & physical health changes among adults aged 50-69 in England. Full schedule & sign up: sites.google.com/view/londonp...

Eric Schneider@ericbschneider.com · 10mo ago

Join us for the London Universities Population Seminar on 28 October at noon UK time at LSE. Prof Karen Glaser (Kings) will present 'Changes in mental and physical health among adults aged 50 – 69 in England: Implications for economic inactivity'. The seminar will be in-person and online.

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Eric Schneider@ericbschneider.com · 10mo ago

Join us for the London Universities Population Seminar on 28 October at noon UK time at LSE. Prof Karen Glaser (Kings) will present 'Changes in mental and physical health among adults aged 50 – 69 in England: Implications for economic inactivity'. The seminar will be in-person and online.

Join us for the London Universities Population Seminar on 28 October at noon UK time at LSE. Prof Karen Glaser (Kings) will present 'Changes in mental and physical health among adults aged 50 – 69 in England: Implications for economic inactivity'. The seminar will be in-person and online.

LSE and @bspsuk.bsky.social are hosting a workshop on "Being an academic in population studies" on 3 November! It'll be a nice mix of methods training and career advice with great talks by @ericbschneider.bsky.social, Wendy Sigle, José Manuel Aburto, and others! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/being-an-a...

📢 Interested in excess mortality methods, and want a challenge? I'm organising the "One Epidemic, Many Estimates" (1EME) project! Register *now* as a many analyst team (submissions due 15 March 2026), and then join us at LSE for a workshop on 21-22 May 2026! (1/n) www.lse.ac.uk/Economic-His...

One Epidemic, Many Estimates (1EME)

One Epidemic, Many Estimates (1EME)

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Join this exciting project at the LSE with @ericbschneider.bsky.social and @hggaddy.bsky.social on mortality estimates 📊

Hampton Gaddy@hggaddy.bsky.social · 11mo ago

📢 Interested in excess mortality methods, and want a challenge? I'm organising the "One Epidemic, Many Estimates" (1EME) project! Register *now* as a many analyst team (submissions due 15 March 2026), and then join us at LSE for a workshop on 21-22 May 2026! (1/n) www.lse.ac.uk/Economic-His...

❕New WP from Eric Schneider and Romola Davenport❕ 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐅𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐑𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐒𝐦𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐩𝐨𝐱? ⬇️

📜 NEW WORKING PAPER 📜 What was the true case fatality rate (CFR) of smallpox? My new paper with Romola Davenport (Cambridge) revisits this question using 18th-century data from Sweden and Iceland—and challenges the long-held belief that smallpox CFRs were 20–30%. 🧵👇 1/6

Really cool to see Jordan describing how the medieval economy worked! He covers interesting questions like: What is a peasant? How market oriented were medieval people? And what role did horses play in the medieval economy?

Jordan Claridge@jordanclaridge.bsky.social · last yr.

Thanks to the Institute for Economic Affairs for indulging in my ramblings about my recent research! youtu.be/pXkofabuCBI?... @lseechist.bsky.social #econhist

Thanks to the Institute for Economic Affairs for indulging in my ramblings about my recent research! youtu.be/pXkofabuCBI?... @lseechist.bsky.social #econhist

How The Black Death Increased Worker's Wages: Medieval England's Economic Revolution | IEA Interview

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📖 Join us for this book talk by Cormac O'Grada tomorrow evening in person or online, discussing the casualties of the World Wars. O'Grada argues that civilian deaths in the two #WorldWars were much higher than previously estimated. #lse #econhist #WWI #WWII www.lse.ac.uk/Events/2025/...

The hidden victims: civilian casualties of the two world wars

6.30pm Thurs 20 Feb | Cormac Ó Gráda | Free public event at LSE

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We are now accepting applications for our Annual Workshop on Formal Demography, taking place in-person at UC Berkeley on June 2-6, 2025. Deadline to apply is March 10. See more information on the workshop and how to apply here: populationsciences.berkeley.edu/wp-content/u... Please share widely!

@lseechist.bsky.social would be pleased to support suitable applications for the following postdoctoral fellowships beginning in 10/2025. Check the eligibility criteria for the schemes, and if eligible, contact @ericbschneider.bsky.social (e.b.schneider@lse.ac.uk) to discuss your application 1/3

Final reminder about this workshop. We are also grateful to have received funding from the economic history society that will help cover accommodation costs for a couple of PhD students. Please apply now!

Eric Schneider@ericbschneider.com · 2y ago

CFP: Workshop on Health Transitions in the Global South CFP Deadline 3 February 2025 Workshop 9-10 June 2025 at LSE Organised by myself and Neil Cummins Sponsored by the LSE Historical Economic Demography Group

Just a reminder about this call for papers!

Eric Schneider@ericbschneider.com · 2y ago

CFP: Workshop on Health Transitions in the Global South CFP Deadline 3 February 2025 Workshop 9-10 June 2025 at LSE Organised by myself and Neil Cummins Sponsored by the LSE Historical Economic Demography Group