O seminário de Estudos Pós-Graduados em História de 12 de maio contará com a presença de Eric Schneider (London School of Economics). A palestra, cujo tema será "Worldwide Child Stunting since the Nineteenth Century", terá início às 14:30, na sala Maria de Sousa do ICS-ULisboa e online, aqui. 

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This paper conducts a meta-analysis of 877 historical child growth studies to reconstruct child stunting rates, the share of children who are too short for their age, for 121 countries from the earliest date possible to the present. This data complements and extends the modern Joint Malnutrition Estimates database of country-level stunting rates, which begins in the 1980s. We find that many European countries had stunting rates similar to current LMICs at the turn of the twentieth century, but child stunting fell in the early twentieth century reaching very low levels before World War II. Stunting rates were also very high in Japan and Korea. However, stunting rates were surprisingly low historically in the European settler colonies, Eastern Europe and the Caribbean. Historical comparisons of child stunting add a new dimension to the historical health transition and allow for more direct historical lessons for the fight against stunting today. 

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Eric Schneider is a Professor in the Department of Economic History at the London School of Economics (LSE) His research interests involve currently 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 the disease on later health outcomes; assessing fertility differentials between social groups in early modern England. 
His current research project is “Child Morbidity and Health in Historic London: Evidence from the Foundling Hospital, 1897-1915” and 'Worldwide Historical Child Stunting since the Nineteenth Century" with 40 academic collaborators representing 121 countries.  His vast list of publications can be seen here:  https://www.ericbschneider.com/research~.