Historical Economic Demography Workshop 2022
Hosted by the Department of Economic History, LSE
Organised by Neil Cummins and Eric Schneider (LSE)
4 February 2022, Zoom
9.30-9.40am: Welcome
9:40-11:00 Session 1:Epidemics – Neil Cummins (LSE – Economic History), Chair
Richard Franke (Bayreuth): Poverty, Pollution, and Mortality: The 1918 Influenza Pandemic in a Developing German Economy
Charlie Udale (LSE – Economic History): The Consequences of Household Quarantine in Plague Epidemics in Early Modern England, 1544-1667
11.00-11.20: Coffee Break
11.20-12.40 Session 2:Survival and Cognitive Ability – Eric Schneider (LSE – Economic History), Chair
Sijie Hu (Renmin University of China): The "missing" girls in imperial China: Re-estimating the survival and marriages of daughters, 1350-1900
Alice Goisis (UCL): Only children and cognitive ability in childhood: a cross-cohort analysis over 50 years in the U.K.
12.40-13.40: Lunch Break
13.40-15.00 Session 3:Fertility – Mike Murphy (LSE – Social Policy), Chair
Elisabetta De Cao (LSE – Health Policy): Gene-Environment Effects on Female Fertilitywith Nicola Barban and Marco Francesconi
Tomas Cvrcek (UCL): The economic and cultural factors of fertility transition: Testing the hypotheses in the most diverse country of 19th century Europe
15.00-15.30 Closing Discussion