Work in Progress

Working Papers/Submitted Papers:

• 'The Effect of Nutritional Status on Historical Infectious Disease Morbidity: Evidence from the London Foundling Hospital, 1892-1919'

  • • Vox Talks Economics episode on the paper available here.

    • CEPR working paper version: CEPR Discussion Paper, no. 16361 (2021).

• 'Infant Feeding and Post-Weaning Health: Evidence from Turn-of-the-Century London' with Vellore Arthi.

  • • Updated version May 2020.

    • Earlier CEPR working paper version: CEPR Discussion Paper, no. 12165 (2017).

Current Research Projects:

• ‘Child Morbidity and Health in Historic London: Evidence from the Foundling Hospital, 1897-1915'

• ‘Smallpox, Vaccination and Stillbirths in Sweden, 1750-1850’ with Sören Edvinsson and Kota Ogasawara

• 'Worldwide Historical Child Stunting since the Nineteenth Century' with 50 academic collaborators representing 36 countries