Louis Steven Henderson

British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at London School of Economics

Welcome to my academic homepage. I am an economic historian interested in what one generation leaves to the next. Primarily, I examine parent-child relationships and their impact on reproduction and human capital, but some of my collaborative research takes a broader view and considers enduring institutional legacies.

My methods apply modern causal inference to curated archival sources to answer theoretically-motivated questions that are difficult to answer with conventional datasets.