Schneider, Eric B.

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  • Schneider, Eric B., Jaramillo-Echeverri, Juliana, Purcell, Matthew, A’Hearn, Brian, Arthi, Vellore, Blum, Matthias, Brainerd, Elizabeth, Capuno, Joseph, Cermeño, Alexandra L. & Challú, Amílcar et al (2026). The decline of child stunting in 122 countries: a systematic review of child growth studies since the nineteenth century. BMJ Global Health, [In Press] picture_as_pdf
  • Le Vu, Mathilde, Matthes, Katarina L., Schneider, Eric B., Moerlen, Aline, Hösli, Irene, Baud, David, Staub, Kaspar (2025). Maternal influenza-like illness and neonatal health during the 1918 influenza pandemic in a Swiss city. Annals of Internal Medicine, 178(11), 1632 - 1641. https://doi.org/10.7326/annals-24-03796 picture_as_pdf
  • Schneider, Eric B., Davenport, Romola (2025). What is the case fatality rate of smallpox? Population Studies, [In Press] picture_as_pdf
  • Schneider, Eric B. (2023). The determinants of child stunting and shifts in the growth pattern of children: a long-run, global review. Journal of Economic Surveys, https://doi.org/10.1111/joes.12591 picture_as_pdf
  • Schneider, Eric B. (2023). Plagues upon the earth: disease and the course of human history. By Kyle Harper, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021. pp. 1–686. ISBN 9780691192123. Hbk £30.00. Economic History Review, 76(3), 979 - 981. https://doi.org/10.1111/ehr.13268
  • Schneider, Eric B., Edvinsson, Sören, Ogasawara, Kota (2023). Did smallpox cause stillbirths? Maternal smallpox infection, vaccination and stillbirths in Sweden, 1780-1839. Population Studies, 78(3), 467 - 482. https://doi.org/10.1080/00324728.2023.2174266 picture_as_pdf
  • Schneider, Eric B. (2022). The effect of nutritional status on historical infectious disease morbidity: evidence from the London Foundling Hospital, 1892-1919. History of the Family, https://doi.org/10.1080/1081602X.2021.2007499 picture_as_pdf
  • Schneider, Eric B., Ogasawara, Kota, Cole, Tim (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. https://doi.org/10.1111/padr.12444 picture_as_pdf
  • Arthi, Vellore, Schneider, Eric B. (2021). Infant feeding and post-weaning health: evidence from turn-of-the-century London. Economics and Human Biology, 43, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ehb.2021.101065 picture_as_pdf
  • Schneider, Eric B. (2020). Collider bias in economic history research. Explorations in Economic History, 78, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eeh.2020.101356 picture_as_pdf
  • Schneider, Eric B. (2020). Sample-selection biases and the historical growth pattern of children. Social Science History, 44(3), 417 - 444. https://doi.org/10.1017/ssh.2020.10 picture_as_pdf
  • Gao, Pei, Schneider, Eric (2020). The growth pattern of British children 1850-1975. Economic History Review, 0(0), 1-31. https://doi.org/10.1111/ehr.13002 picture_as_pdf
  • Ogasawara, Kota, Gazeley, Ian, Schneider, Eric B. (2020). Nutrition, crowding and disease among low-income households in Tokyo in 1930. Australian Economic History Review, 60(1), 73 - 104. https://doi.org/10.1111/aehr.12189 picture_as_pdf
  • de la Croix, David, Schneider, Eric B., Weisdorf, Jacob (2019). Childlessness, celibacy and net fertility in pre-industrial England: the middle-class evolutionary advantage. Journal of Economic Growth, 24(3), 223–256. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10887-019-09170-6 picture_as_pdf
  • Schneider, Eric B., Ogasawara, Kota (2018). Disease and child growth in industrialising Japan: critical windows and the growth pattern, 1917-39. Explorations in Economic History, 69, 64-80. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eeh.2018.05.001
  • Kramer, Michael R., Schneider, Eric B., Kane, Jennifer B., Margerison-Zilko, Claire, Jones-Smith, Jessica, King, Katherine, Davis-Kean, Pamela, Grzywacz, Joseph G. (2017). Getting under the skin: children's health disparities as embodiment of social class. Population Research and Policy Review, 36(5), 671-697. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11113-017-9431-7
  • Schneider, Eric B. (2017). Fetal health stagnation: have health conditions in utero improved in the United States and western and northern Europe over the past 150 years? Social Science & Medicine, 179, 18-26. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2017.02.018
  • Schneider, Eric B. (2017). Children's growth in an adaptive framework: explaining the growth patterns of American slaves and other historical populations. Economic History Review, 70(1), 3 - 29. https://doi.org/10.1111/ehr.12484
  • Schneider, Eric B. (2014). Prices and production: agricultural supply response in fourteenth‐century England. Economic History Review, 67(1), 66-91. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0289.12012
    • Chapter
  • Schneider, Eric B. (2016). Health, gender and the household: children’s growth in the Marcella Street Home, Boston, MA and the Ashford School, London, UK. In Hanes, C. & Wolcott, S. (Eds.), Research in economic history (pp. 277-361). Emerald Group Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0363-326820160000032005
    • Dataset
  • Schneider, Eric B. (2022). European Stillbirth Rate Time Series Dataset. [Dataset]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6505518
  • Schneider, Eric, Gao, Pei (2019). Exmouth training ship, growth patterns of children 1876-1923. [Dataset]. UK Data Service. https://doi.org/10.5255/UKDA-SN-853292
  • Schneider, Eric, Gao, Pei (2019). Indefatigable training ship, growth patterns of children 1865-1995. [Dataset]. UK Data Service. https://doi.org/10.5255/UKDA-SN-853251
  • Schneider, Eric, Gao, Pei (2019). North Surrey school district data 1881-1895. [Dataset]. UK Data Service. https://doi.org/10.5255/UKDA-SN-853294
  • Schneider, Eric, Ogasawara, Kota (2018). Child Growth in Japan, 1917-39. [Dataset]. OpenICPSR. https://doi.org/10.3886/e103780v2
    • Report
  • Schneider, Eric B. (2018). Stunting: past, present, future. Department of Economic History, London School of Economics and Political Science. https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.9teyst78nhxh
  • Schneider, Eric B. (2015). Technical note on applying the WHO standard/reference to historical data. Department of Economic History, The London School of Economics and Political Science.
    • Working paper
  • Schneider, Eric B. (2025). Born in smog: the short- and long-run health consequences of acute air pollution exposure in historical London, 1892-1919. (Economic History Working Papers 380). London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf
  • Schneider, Eric B., Davenport, Romola (2025). What is the case fatality rate of smallpox? (Economic History Working Papers 377). London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf
  • Schneider, Eric B., Edvinsson, Sören, Ogasawara, Kota (2022). Did smallpox cause stillbirths? Maternal smallpox infection, vaccination and stillbirths in Sweden, 1780-1839. (Economic History Working Papers 340). London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf
  • Schneider, Eric B. (2021). The effect of nutritional status on historical infectious disease morbidity: evidence from the London Foundling Hospital, 1892-1919. (Economic History Working Papers 328). Department of Economic History, London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf
  • Gao, Pei, Schneider, Eric B. (2019). The growth pattern of British children, 1850-1975. (Economic History working papers 293). London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf
  • de la Croix, David, Schneider, Eric B., Weisdorf, Jacob (2018). "Decessit sine prole" - childlessness, celibacy, and survival of the richest in pre-industrial England. (Economic History working papers 276/2018). London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Schneider, Eric B. (2018). Sample selection biases and the historical growth pattern of children. (Economic History working papers 273/2018). London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Schneider, Eric B., Ogasawara, Kota (2017). Disease and child growth in industrialising Japan: assessing instantaneous changes in growth and changes in the growth pattern, 1911-39. (Economic History Working Papers 265/2017). London School of Economics and Political Science, Economic History Department.