Historical Economic Demography Workshop 2020
Hosted by the Department of Economic History, LSE
Organised by Neil Cummins and Eric Schneider (LSE)
31 January 2020, LSE
9.45-10.00: Welcome
10:00-11:20 Session 1:Non-European Perspectives, Elliott Green (LSE – International Development), Chair
Tim Dyson (LSE – International Development): The 1943-44 Bengal Famine - Some Facts and Implications
Leigh Gardner (LSE – Economic History): Reconstructing Liberian population statistics: Economic history and situational adjustments in backward projection
11:20-11:40: Coffee
11.40-13.00: Session 2:Early Modern Britain – Eric Schneider (LSE – Economic History), Chair
Sara Horrell (LSE – Economic History): Malthus’s missing women and children: Demography and women and children’s remuneration in historical perspective, Britain 1280-1850with Jane Humphries and Jacob Weisdorf
Hannaliis Jaadla (Cambridge): Wealth and adult male height in the late 18thcentury Dorsetwith Romola Davenport
13.00-14.00: Lunch
14.00-16.00: Session 3:Social Mobility – Neil Cummins (LSE – Economic History), Chair
Chris Minns (LSE – Economic History): When did the American Dream move to Canada? Intergenerational mobility and the geography of opportunity, 1871-1901with Luiza Antonie, Kris Inwood and Fraser Summerfield
Thor Berger (Lund) and Per Engzell (Oxford): Intergenerational mobility in Sweden before the welfare statewith Björn Eriksson and Jakob Molinder
Julian Costas Fernandez (Essex): Social networks and intergenerational mobility in Victorian Britainwith José-Alberto Guerra and Myra Mohnen
16.00-16.30: Coffee
16.30-18.30: Session 4:19th and 20th Century Britain – Mike Murphy (LSE – Social Policy), Chair
Eilidh Garrett (Cambridge): Death, doctors, demographers, registrars and the history of mortality in Britain, 1855-1970
Nicola Shelton (UCL): Using the ONS Longitudinal Study to investigate nineteenth century populationswith Oliver Duke-Williams
Stephanie Thiehoff (Southampton): Reflecting on the past: Long-term spatial persistence of fertility behaviour from the First to the Second Demographic Transition in England and Waleswith Andrew Hinde, Brienna Perelli-Harris and Agnese Vitali