Africa governmental decentralization index
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Africa property rights index
PDF document 
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World cities population data set, 1960-2000
Excel document
Word document (documentation for world cities data)
Word document  (cities and countries dropped in analysis)

Podcast “What is about economy?”: Vernon Henderson on the challenges of Ukraine’s recovery. Listen here. 

The Way Forward Coalition, Washington, DC. Watch here.

Lectures on urban Economics. Watch here. 

Urban age. Building productive cities. Listen here. 

The political economy of local factor market distortions in China. Watch here. 

• "Economics of Greenfield Urban Planning", with Francisco Libano-Monteiro, Martina Manara, Guy Michaels and Tanner Regan. 2025.  
• "Climate Change, Population Growth, and Population Pressure", with Bo-Yeon Jang, Adam Storeygard, and David N. Weil. 2025. 
• "Political manipulation of urban land markets: Evidence from China", (with Dongling Su, Qinghua Zhang, Siqi Zheng) Journal of Public Economics 
• "Building the city: from slums to a modern metropolis", (with Tanner Regan, and Anthony J. Venables) 
• “Measuring Urban Economic Density” (with S. Kriticos and D. Nigmatulina) Journal of Urban Economics, forthcoming 
• “Does Investment in National Highways Help or Hurt Hinterland City Growth” (with N. Baum-Snow. M. Turner, Q. Zhang and L. Brandt) Journal of Urban Economics, forthcoming
• “The Development of the Africa System of Cities,” with Sebastian Kriticos, Annual Review of Economics, 2018, 10, pp. 287–314
• “The Global Distribution of Economic Activity: Nature, History, and the Role of Trade,” with T. Squires, A. Storeygard and D. Weil, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2018, 133, 1, 357-406. 
• “Urban economics for the developing World: An introduction,” with E. Glaeser, Journal of Urban Economics, 2017, 98, 1-5.
• “Roads, Railways and Decentralization of Chinese Cities,” with N. Baum-Snow, L. Brandt, M. Turner, and Q. Zhang, The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2017, 99, 3, 435–448.
• “Has climate change promoted urbanization in Sub-Saharan Africa,” with A. Storeygard and U. Deichmann, Journal of Development Economics, 2017, 124,  60-82.
• Spatial Distribution of Economic Activity: Nature, History, and the Role of Trade (with Tim Squires, Adam Storeygard, David Weil) forthcoming in the Quarterly Journal of Economics
• Has Climate Change Driven Urbanization in Africa? (with A. Storeygard and U. Deichmann), forthcoming in Journal of Development Economics

• 'Roads, Railroads and Decentralization of Chinese Cities' with Nathaniel Baum-Snow, Loren Brandt, Matthew A. Turner and Qinghua Zhang, forthcoming in Review of Economics and Statistics

• 'Building functional cities' with Anthony J. Venables, Tanner Regan, Ilia Samsonov, Science,  VOL 352 ISSUE 6288

• Political favoritism in China’s capital markets and its effect on city sizes (with Chen and Cai), forthcoming in the Journal of Urban Economics 

• “Organizing aid delivery: Spending your donations” (with Y. Lee), Economic Development and Cultural Change, in press
  
  
• “The Geography of Development within Countries” (with K. Desmet), in Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics, (G. Duranton, J.V.Henderson and W. Strange, eds.), Elsevier, in press

• “Urbanization and the geography of development in countries” in Rethinking Cities: toward shared prosperity, E. Glaeser and A. Joshi-Ghani (eds.) Oxford University Press, 2015

• “China’s Land Market Auctions: Evidence of Corruption?” with Hongbin Cai and Qinghua Zhang. RAND Journal of Economics, 2013, 44 (3). pp. 488-521

• “Measuring Economic Growth from Outer Space,’ with Adam Storeygard and David Weil, American Economic Review, 2012, 102, 994-1028.

• “Exclusionary Policies in Urban Development,” with Leo Feler Journal of Urban Economics, 2011, 69, 253-272

• “Corruption and Local Democratization in Indonesia: The Role of Islamic Parties,” with Ari Kuncoro, Journal of Development Economics, 2011, 94, 164-180

• “Cities and Development,” Journal of Regional Science, 2010, 50, 515-540

• “The Dynamics of City Formation” (with Tony Venables), Review of Economic Dynamics, 2009, 12, 233-254

• “Agglomeration of Headquarters,” (with J. Davis), Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2008, 63, 431-450

• “Networking Off Madison Avenue,” (with M. Arzaghi), Review of Economic Studies, 2008, 75, 1011-1038.

Working papers:

• 'Building the city: sunk capital, sequencing, and institutional frictions' with J. Vernon Henderson, Tanner Regan, and Anthony J. Venables

“Accelerating urban economic growth in Ukraine” Henderson (with R. Green, M. Kahn, A. Nikolsko-Rzhevskyyc and A. Parkhomenkoa. In Rebuilding Ukraine: Principles and policies (eds: Yuriy Gorodnichenko Ilona Sologoub Beatrice Weder di Mauro) CEPR 2021

Podcast “What is about economy?”: Vernon Henderson on the challenges of Ukraine’s recovery. Listen here.