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Historical Economic Demography Workshop 2025

Hosted by the Department of Economic History, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳

HED TREE ICON RED

Organised by Neil Cummins and Eric Schneider (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳) 

31st January 2025, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳

 

Workshop programme

9.30-10.00am: Welcome 

10.00am-noon Session 1: Fertility

Ian Timaeus (LSHTM): Fertility and family building in Kenya, 1947-2007

Louis Henderson (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳): Was there a family economics before 1870?: fertility choice in a long-running natural experiment, London, c. 1760-1870

Emma Diduch (CAMPOP): People, places, and peers - the fertility trajectories of two Derbyshire cohorts 1881-1911

12.00-12.10pm: Coffee Break 

12.10-1.30pm Session 2: Mortality and Mobility

Casey Breen (Oxford): The Black-White Mortality Crossover Paradox: New Evidence from Social Security Mortality Records

Per Engzell (UCL): 150 years of multigenerational mobility in Sweden

1.30-2.30pm: Lunch Break 

2.30-3.50pm Session 3: Health

Eilidh Garrett (CAMPOP): Changing manifestations of the White Death: the recording of tuberculous deaths in British civil registers, 1871-1901

Romola Davenport (CAMPOP): Public and private water provision in industrializing Britain

3.50-4.20pm: Coffee Break

4.20-5.40pm Session 4: Gender

Felix Schaff (EUI): Before the U-Curve: Inter-Family Roots of Preindustrial Gender Inequality

Sijie Hu (Renmin): Role models rescuing missing girls? Evidence from six centuries of Chinese history

5.40-7.00pm: Drinks at White Horse pub

7.00pm: Dinner (invited guests only)