Steve Gibbons

Stephen Gibbons is a Professor of Economic Geography, and teaches urban economics, quantitative methods, applied spatial analysis, and Geographical Information Systems. Gibbons is also Director of the Spatial Economics Research Centre at LSE.

Research and teaching relates to spatial issues in the economics of education, transport, housing markets, labour markets, health and crime, with special emphasis on empirical methods that aim to understand causality and inform policy

• Quantitative methods and econometrics

• Geography and economics of education

• Social interactions and neighbourhood effects

• Spatial aspects of labour markets

• Transport, crime, health, housing

Selected recent publications:

• Gibbons, Stephen, Neumayer, Eric and Perkins, Richard (2015) Student satisfaction, league tables and university applications: evidence from Britain. Economics of Education Review, 48 . pp. 148-164.

• Gibbons, S. and Telhaj, S., Peer Effects: Evidence from secondary school transition in England, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics online February 2015

• Gibbons, S., Overman, H. and Patacchini, E., Spatial methods, Chapter 3 in Duranton, G., Henderson, J.V and W. Strange (eds.) Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics Volume 5, Elsevier, 2015

• Gibbons, S. (2015) ‘Gone with the Wind: Valuing the Visual Impacts of Wind Turbines Through House Prices.’ Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. 72(1). p177-196

• Gibbons, S., Mourato, S. and Resende, G. M., The amenity value of English nature: A hedonic price approach, Environment and Resource Economics, 57 (2) 175-196 February 2014

• Gibbons, S., Overman, H. G. and Pelkonen, P. O., Area disparities in Britain: understanding the contribution of people versus place through variance decompositions, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, online Oct 2013

• Gibbons, S., Machin, S. and Silva, O., Valuing school quality using boundary discontinuity regressions, Journal of Urban Economics 75 (May) 2013 15-28

• Gibbons,S., Silva, O. and Weinhardt, F., Everybody needs good neighbours? Evidence from student outcomes in England, Economic Journal 123 (571) 831–874 September 2013

• Gibbons, S. and Overman, H.G., Mostly pointless spatial econometrics? Journal of Regional Science, 52(2) 172-191 May 2012

• Gibbons, S. and Vignoles, A., Geography, choice and participation in higher education in England, Regional Science and Urban Economics, 42 (1–2) 1-38 January 2012

• Gibbons, S and Telhaj, S., Pupil mobility and school disruption, Journal of Public Economics, 95 (9–10) 1019-1236 October 2011

• Cooper, Z., Gibbons, S., Jones, S. and McGuire, A., Does hospital competition save lives? Evidence from recent English NHS reforms, Economic Journal, Volume 121, Issue 554, F228–F260 August 2011

• Gibbons, S. and Silva, O., Faith schools: better schools or better pupils, Journal of Labor Economics, 29(3): 589-635, July 2011