As of September 1, 2026, Ingrid van Dijk has been appointed professor of Economic, Social and Demographic History, at the Faculty of Arts.

Please use this form to register for the IPUMs International Session hosted by the Historical Economic Demography Group at LSE. The session will be on Zoom from 15:15-16:30 UK Time on 12 November 202...

This conference will bring together scholars from various disciplines to consider how large-scale sociodemographic shifts reshape family systems within and beyond the household and how these changes contribute to, reproduce, or mitigate social and economic inequality.

In this paper we jointly study maternal mortality and tuberculosis during the second and third decades of the 20th century in Madrid. Nicknamed the “c…

The Department of Economic History is a research-intensive department that employs about 100 people: researchers, teachers, technical/administrative staff, and Ph.D. candidates. The department has a l

A new study suggests that the children of immigrants face challenges in the labor market and are at a higher risk for overqualification than those with ...

AbstractSTUDY QUESTION. How are the changing maternal age structure and population growth expected to shape future twinning rates in low-income countries?S