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.
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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 E