Louis Steven Henderson
Welcome to my academic homepage. I am interested in what one generation leaves to the next. Primarily, I examine parent-child relationships and their impact on reproduction and human capital during early industrialisation, but some of my collaborative research takes a broader view and considers institutional legacies.
I apply modern causal inference to archival sources to answer theoretically-motivated questions that are difficult to answer with administrative datasets. My work has been published in Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Economic History Review, and European Review of Economic History.
-
Age norms and compulsory schooling: United States, 1850-1920
Canadian Economics Association Meeting 2026, Simon Fraser University
-
Conflict at common law: constructing a machine-readable database of eighteenth-century plea rolls
Political Economy of Natural Resources and Environmental Change, University of Tubingen
-
Endogenous fertility in pre-transition England
Royal Economic Society Meeting 2026, Newcastle University