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Historical Economic Demography Workshop 2021

Hosted by the Department of Economic History, LSE

Organised by Neil Cummins and Eric Schneider (LSE) 

18 June 2021, Zoom

 

Workshop programme

2.00-2.30: Welcome and introductions 

2.30-2.45: Harry Smith (Kingston University) Geographies of Morbidity in the United Kingdom, 1893-1908

2.45-3.20: Genevieve Ann Jeffrey (LSE) The Intergenerational Impacts on Health and Gestational Exposure to the Introduction of the National Health Service in the UK

3.20-3.55: Volha Lazuka (SDU) Multigenerational effects of smallpox vaccination

3.55-4.15: Break 

4.15-4.50: Juliana Jaramillo-Echeverri (LSE) The effects of geography and education on fertility behaviour: The case of Colombia in 1973

4.50-5.25: Neil Cummins (LSE) The Causal Effect of Education on Female Age at Marriage and Marital Fertility: Evidence from Compulsory Schooling Reforms in England

5.25-6.00 Walker Hanlon (NYU, Stern) Culture and the Historical Fertility Transition