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ericbschneider.bsky.social
Professor of Economic History at LSE studying health, demography, living standards and economic growth; working on global historical child stunting. Website: www.ericbschneider.com
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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/...

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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!

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@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 ([email protected]) to discuss your application 1/3

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

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!

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Just a reminder about this call for papers!

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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

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WE KNOW...YOU ARE THINKING!! 📢Call for Papers 6th Conference of the ESHD #Demography Last Days! The European Society of Historical Demography is pleased to invite submissions for its 6th Conference, to be held in #Bologna #Italy 10-13 September 2025 👉 eshd2025.eshd.eu

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Just reposting this in case anyone missed it last week. Please submit your work! #EconSky #histmed #demography #econhist

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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

submitted 79 days ago • 1 comment

The CfP for the 6th Conference of the European Society of Historical Demography is out! The conference will be held in Bologna from 10 to 13 September 2025. The deadline for submissions is January 31, 2025! eshd2025.eshd.eu

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Public service announcement that Charles Booth's 'Maps Descriptive of London Poverty, 1898-9' have been uploaded by LSE archive online to be viewed and reproduced freely. 🗃️ unsplash.com/collections/...

submitted 93 days ago • 44 comments

CfP for a special issue in Historical Life Course Studies: "Sources and Databases on Causes of Death in Historical Societies (1800–1950)." Join us! greatleap.eu/calls/call-f...

submitted 93 days ago • 1 comment

Hello @bsky.app! Let me start off my activity on this website by fully endorsing the beautiful thread that @jordanclaridge.bsky.social has made on our joint work on (in-kind) wages in the Middle Ages, available at *Explorations in Economic History*! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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The historical #fertility transition began with stopping, and then involved both stopping and spacing, with similar patterns across #social classes. Evidence from applying cure models to #microdata from Southern Sweden. New publication 👉https://www.demographic-research.org/articles/volume/51/40

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I've been at the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna in Pisa today presenting new research. Thanks to Giuliana Freschi, Giacamo Gabbuti and Alessandro Nuvolari for inviting me. I use daily fog events in turn-of-the-century London to measure the short- and long-run health costs of pollution for children.

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Piece critical about the current state of genetic research in demography ("The Dead Ends of Sociogenomics") but which ends on a hopeful note, arguing demographers & sociologists should work together with the natural sciences to improve this field shs.cairn.info/journal-popu...

submitted 104 days ago • 3 comments

It's great to see the British Society for Population Studies @bspsuk.bsky.social over here: anyone interested in population and/or demography should follow them!

submitted 106 days ago • 0 comments

More zen for the skyline!

submitted 105 days ago • 0 comments

Ooooooooooh the Foundling Hospital archive has now gone online. (I think I did a few page transcriptions for this one.) coramstory.org.uk/the-foundlin... If you want to go straight into petitions... archives.coram.org.uk/records/CFH/...

submitted 133 days ago • 2 comments

Job alert: Associate Professor in Social Demography at the Department of Sociology & St John's College. This is a brilliant new position. Join a fabulous college, great students, wonderful colleagues, and me (sorry, no job is perfect) tinyurl.com/soc-dem-job #sociology #demography

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Very happy to share our new working paper: cepr.org/publications...

submitted 124 days ago • 2 comments

#TodayinHistory #dataviz #Onthisday #OTD 📊 💀Oct 25, 1914 Wilhelm Lexis died in Gottingen, Germany 🇩🇪 1875: credited with the Lexis diagram, showing relations among age, calendar time, and life spans of individuals simultaneously. Brought demography to new levels.

submitted 127 days ago • 1 comment

My institution is hiring for two TT positions, one is for a demographer at the assistant or early associate level. The other is for a medical sociologist and/or a social demographer with strong interests and expertise in population and health inequalities, at the assistant level. Links below.

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