Overview
Stephen Gibbons is an economist (London School of Economics, Department of Geography and Environment and the Spatial Economics Research Centre), working on urban and spatial economics, education, and the causal analysis of neighbourhood effects. (Distinct from the biostatistician Robert D. Gibbons.)
Key Contributions / Features
- Identification critique of spatial econometrics (Gibbons-Overman 2012): with Overman, argues applied spatial econometrics achieves weak identification and advocates the experimentalist paradigm.
- Applied work on the valuation of schools and amenities, transport, and neighbourhood/agglomeration effects using quasi-experimental designs.
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