About
I am a historical social scientist of work and wellbeing. I have a DPhil in Economic History from the University of Oxford, where my thesis analyzed the impact of technological change on work from 1750–1910 using the first index of historical job quality. My previous research analyzed living standards and the incentives for innovation in the British Industrial Revolution.
As a member of the OsloMet Centre for Research on Pandemics and Society (PANSOC), I am researching the effects of the 1918–20 influenza pandemic and COVID-19 on work-related wellbeing. My other projects include further historical investigations of job quality and technological unemployment.
Publications and research
Scientific publications
Schneider, Benjamin
(2025).
Living Standards and Development Paths: Factory Systems and Job Quality during US Industrialization, 1790-1840.
International Review of Social History.
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020859025000033
Joaquin-Damas, Elienai;
Mamelund, Svenn-Erik
;
Schneider, Benjamin
; Sánchez-Hernández, Beatriz E.; Patishtán-López, Amanda; Bleichrodt, Amanda; Chowell-Puente, Gerardo
(2024).
Evaluating COVID-19 impact, vaccination, birth registration, and underreporting in a predominantly indigenous population in Chiapas, Mexico.
BMC Infectious Diseases.
Vol. 24.
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12879-024-10156-y
Schneider, Benjamin
(2023).
Technological change and work.
European Review of Economic History.
Vol. 28.
https://doi.org/10.1093/ereh/head028
Dimka, Jessica;
Schneider, Benjamin
;
Mamelund, Svenn-Erik
(2023).
Protocol for a systematic review to understand the long-term mental-health effects of influenza pandemics in the pre-COVID-19 era.
Scandinavian Journal of Public Health.
https://doi.org/10.1177/14034948231217362
Schneider, Benjamin
(2022).
Review of Claudia Goldin, Career and Family: Women’s Century-Long Journey toward Equity.
Journal of the History of Economic Thought (JHET).
https://doi.org/10.1017/S1053837222000268
Humphries, Jane;
Schneider, Benjamin
(2021).
Gender equality, growth, and how a technological trap destroyed female work.
Economic History of Developing Regions.
https://doi.org/10.1080/20780389.2021.1929606
Humphries, Jane;
Schneider, Benjamin
(2020).
Losing the thread: a response to Robert Allen.
The Economic History Review.
https://doi.org/10.1111/ehr.12963
Humphries, Jane;
Schneider, Benjamin
(2019).
Spinning the industrial revolution.
The Economic History Review.
https://doi.org/10.1111/ehr.12693
