9.45-10.00: Welcome
10.00-11.20 Session 1: Historical Population Dynamics, Tim Dyson (LSE - International Development), Chair
Neil Cummins (LSE - Economic History): Malthus in France. The Micro-Evidence for the Positive and Preventative check, and the Iron Law, 1650-1820
Peter Razzell: English Population Growth in the Eighteenth Century
11:20-11:40: Coffee
11:40-13:00 Session 2: Fertility and Nuptiality, Jane Humphries (LSE - Economic History), Chair
Elliott Green (LSE - International Development): Explaining inter-ethnic and inter-religious marriage in Sub-Saharan Africa with Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay
Ian Timaeus (LSHTM): Fertility transition without parity-specific limitation: past and present
13.00-14.00: Lunch
14:00-16:00 Session 3: Child Health, Elisabetta De Cao (LSE - Health Policy), Chair
Hannaliis Jaadla (Cambridge): Infant and child mortality by socioeconomic status in early 19th century England with Ellen Porter and Romola Davenport
Eric Schneider (LSE - Economic History): The effect of the Second World War on Japanese Children’s Growth with Kota Ogasawara and Tim Cole
Alice Goisis (UCL): The changing association between maternal age and offspring well-being
16.00-16.30: Coffee
16:30-18:30 Session 4: Mortality Decline, Eilidh Garrett (Cambridge), Chair
Romola Davenport (Cambridge): Water and health: new evidence from British cities 1870-1911 with Toke Aidt
Arjan Gjonca (LSE - International Development): Can the “Development Idealism framework” help us better understand the mortality transition in both Western European Societies and today’s Low and Middle Income Countries?
Mike Murphy (LSE - Social Policy): What are the causes and consequences of stalling mortality improvement in developed societies?