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 will be joining the Department of Social Sciences at UC3M in 2027 as an assistant professor. My work has been published in PNAS, Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Economic History Review, and European Review of Economic History.
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Endogenous fertility in pre-transition England
London Family Economics Workshop, LSE
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Age norms and compulsory schooling: United States, 1850-1920
Canadian Economics Association Meeting 2026, Simon Fraser University
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Infant feeding practices and the mortality transition: evidence from early C20th London
Faecal-oral diseases and 'sanitary revolutions' – the long view, University of Cambridge
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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
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Endogenous fertility in pre-transition England
Royal Economic Society Meeting 2026, Newcastle University