Dr Schneider is currently conducting research on three broad topics in the history of health and historical economic demography:

• Assessing factors influencing children's health and growth in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
• Measuring how early life health has changed over time and the influence of early life exposure to disease on later health outcomes
• Reconstructing child stunting rates (a measure of malnutrition) back to the nineteenth century around the world

These projects span chronological and geographical boundaries from early modern England to twentieth-century Japan.

View Dr Schneider's CV here: Eric Schneider CV [PDF] 

Select recent publications

Schneider, E. B. (2023). The determinants of child stunting and shifts in the growth pattern of children: A long‐run, global review. Journal of Economic Surveys. doi: 10.1111/joes.12591 

Schneider, E. B. (2023). The effect of nutritional status on historical infectious disease morbidity: evidence from the London Foundling Hospital, 1892-1919. The History of the Family, 28(2), 198–228. doi: 10.1080/1081602x.2021.2007499 

Schneider, E. B., Ogasawara, K., & Cole, T. J. (2021). Health Shocks, Recovery, and the First Thousand Days: The Effect of the Second World War on Height Growth in Japanese Children. Population and Development Review, 47(4), 1075–1105. doi: 10.1111/padr.12444 

Schneider, E. B. (2020). Collider bias in economic history research. Explorations in Economic History, 78, 101356. doi: 10.1016/j.eeh.2020.101356

Croix, D. de la, Schneider, E. B., & Weisdorf, J. (2019). Childlessness, celibacy and net fertility in pre-industrial England: the middle-class evolutionary advantage. Journal of Economic Growth, 104(11), 1–34. doi: 10.1007/s10887-019-09170-6

Teaching

EH237  Theories and Evidence in Economic History

EH317 Disease, Health and History

EH444 Population Dynamics and Economic Growth: A Historical Perspective