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Economics and Finance
UK
2024

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Economics and Finance

D-Index
69
Citations
34791
World Ranking
476
National Ranking
52

J. Vernon Henderson publication distribution in Economics and Finance in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Economics and Finance in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where J. Vernon Henderson sits on this spectrum.

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42 publications 521+

This scientist: 174 publications — 52nd percentile

52% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 521 publications or more.

J. Vernon Henderson D-index placement in Economics and Finance in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Economics and Finance scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where J. Vernon Henderson sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 101+

This scientist: 69 D-Index — 88th percentile

88% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 101 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2024 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

J. Vernon Henderson is affiliated with the London School of Economics and Political Science in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on economics, econometrics, and urban studies with a particular emphasis on urban and rural development challenges, regional economics, and spatial analysis.

Their recent publications include:

  • Urbanization in the Developing World: Too Early or Too Slow? (2020), The Journal of Economic Perspectives
  • Building the City: From Slums to a Modern Metropolis (2020), The Review of Economic Studies
  • Political manipulation of urban land markets: Evidence from China (2022), Journal of Public Economics

Henderson's work intersects several topics including:

  • Urban and Rural Development Challenges
  • Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis
  • Economic Growth and Productivity
  • Housing Market and Economics
  • Land Rights and Reforms
  • Local Government Finance and Decentralization
  • Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth

Frequent co-authors in Henderson's research include Tanner Regan, Anthony J. Venables, Ulrich J. Eberle, Dominic Rohner, and Kurt Schmidheiny.

Published often in venues such as:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Harvard Dataverse
  • OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • The Journal of Economic Perspectives

Their subfields of study cover economics and econometrics, urban studies, soil science, political science and international relations, and transportation, with a primary focus on the economics of urbanization and land use policies.

Best Publications

  • Measuring Economic Growth from Outer Space

    J. Vernon Henderson;Adam Storeygard;David N. Weil

  • Industrial Development in Cities

    J. Vernon Henderson;Ari Kuncoro;Matthew Turner

  • Urban Development: Theory, Fact, and Illusion

    J. Vernon Henderson

  • Marshall's scale economies

    J.Vernon Henderson

  • The Sizes and Types of Cities

    J. Vernon Henderson

  • Efficiency of resource usage and city size

    J.Vernon Henderson

  • A Model of Housing Tenure Choice

    J Vernon Henderson;Yannis M Ioannides

  • Economic theory and the cities

    J. Vernon Henderson

  • Externalities and Industrial Development

    J. Vernon Henderson

  • Effects of Air Quality Regulation on in Polluting Industries

    Randy Becker;Vernon Henderson

  • Roads, railroads and decentralization of Chinese cities

    Nathaniel Baum-Snow;Loren Brandt;J. Vernon Henderson;Matthew Turner

  • How migration restrictions limit agglomeration and productivity in China

    Chun-Chung Au;J. Vernon Henderson

  • Geography and development

    J. Vernon Henderson;Zmarak Shalizi;Anthony J. Venables

  • Evidence on the political economy of the urbanization process

    James C. Davis;J.Vernon Henderson

  • Networking off Madison Avenue

    Mohammad Arzaghi;J. Vernon Henderson

  • Are Chinese Cities Too Small

    Chun-Chung Au;J. Vernon Henderson

  • Why countries are fiscally decentralizing

    Mohammad Arzaghi;J. Vernon Henderson

  • Urbanization in developing countries

    Vernon Henderson

  • Effects of Air Quality Regulation

    J. Vernon Henderson

  • Handbook of regional and urban economics

    Gilles Duranton;J. Vernon Henderson;C. William Strange

Frequent Co-Authors

Anthony J. Venables
Anthony J. Venables University of Manchester
David N. Weil
David N. Weil Brown University
Somik V. Lall
Somik V. Lall World Bank
Uwe Deichmann
Uwe Deichmann World Bank
Loren Brandt
Loren Brandt University of Toronto
Jacques-François Thisse
Jacques-François Thisse Université Catholique de Louvain
Yannis M. Ioannides
Yannis M. Ioannides Tufts University
Edward L. Glaeser
Edward L. Glaeser Harvard University
Harriet Bulkeley
Harriet Bulkeley Durham University

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