Louis Steven Henderson
Welcome to my academic homepage. My current research examines the role of human capital in economic development from the premise that schools provide both education and childcare jointly. This slight change of perspective introduces household labour supply to the set of factors that determine school attendance. As a consequence, I maintain a primary interest in human capital and a secondary interest in economic demography and household economics.
I primarily study the industrial revolution in Britain and maintain wider interests in the economic and social history of the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century world.
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Was there a family economics before 1870?: evidence of fertility choice in a long-running natural experiment, London, c. 1760-1870
Allied Social Science Association Meeting, San Francisco
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Innocence and experience: early childhood education as an externality in eighteenth-century London
University of Utrecht, Research Seminar (by invitation)
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Innocence and experience: early childhood education as an externality in eighteenth-century London
European Social Science History Conference, Leiden
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Was there a family economics before 1870?: evidence of fertility choice in a long-running natural experiment, London, c. 1760-1870,
Economic History Society Annual Meeting, Glasgow
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Was there a family economics before 1870?: evidence of fertility choice in a long-running natural experiment, London, c. 1760-1870,
INET YSI-EHES Webinar
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Compulsory school-entry age in North America, 1870-1920: culture, law, and human capital (provisional title)
University of Bayreuth, Joint Research Seminar (by invitation)
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The market for early childhood education in England before the Elementary Education Act (1870)
Lund, World Economic History Congress