Hampton is a PhD student at the London School of Economics.
Most of his work focuses on the societal impacts of social and demographic crises. He has a particular focus on better understanding the 1918 influenza pandemic, but he has also worked on the trends in high-income national fertility after the 2009 global financial crisis and on the geography of mental health around the 2016 Brexit referendum in the UK. One of his bigger collaborative projects uses census microdata data from 1880s through the 2010s to test how polygyny affects marriage markets and might impact social conflict.
His PhD thesis focuses on re-estimating the death toll of the 1918 influenza pandemic in the United States, using new methods and data.
At LSE, he is based in the Department of Economic History, but he is involved in the community of demographers spread across the university and beyond. He co-organises LSE’s cross-department Demography Seminar Series, and further afield, he is on the Board of the Association of Young Historical Demographers and the EU-funded GREATLEAP network.
Before landing at LSE, he completed a MPhil in Sociology and Demography at Nuffield College, University of Oxford, where he was affiliated with Oxford’s Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science and Department of Sociology. Before that, he completed a BA in Human Sciences at the University of Oxford, an interdisciplinary programme of biology and social science.
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Hampton is a PhD student at the London School of Economics.
Most of his work focuses on the societal impacts of social and demographic crises. He has a particular focus on better understanding the 1918 influenza pandemic, but he has also worked on the trends in high-income national fertility after the 2009 global financial crisis and on the geography of mental health around the 2016 Brexit referendum in the UK. One of his bigger collaborative projects uses census microdata data from 1880s through the 2010s to test how polygyny affects marriage markets and might impact social conflict.
His PhD thesis focuses on re-estimating the death toll of the 1918 influenza pandemic in the United States, using new methods and data.
At LSE, he is based in the Department of Economic History, but he is involved in the community of demographers spread across the university and beyond. He co-organises LSE’s cross-department Demography Seminar Series, and further afield, he is on the Board of the Association of Young Historical Demographers and the EU-funded GREATLEAP network.
Before landing at LSE, he completed a MPhil in Sociology and Demography at Nuffield College, University of Oxford, where he was affiliated with Oxford’s Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science and Department of Sociology. Before that, he completed a BA in Human Sciences at the University of Oxford, an interdisciplinary programme of biology and social science.