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Economics and Finance
New Zealand
2026

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Economics and Finance

D-Index
60
Citations
15065
World Ranking
826
National Ranking
3

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Economics and Finance in New Zealand Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Economics and Finance in New Zealand Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Economics and Finance in New Zealand Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Economics and Finance in New Zealand Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Economics and Finance in New Zealand Leader Award

Overview

John Gibson is affiliated with the University of Waikato in New Zealand. Their research focuses primarily on the fields of Social Sciences and Economics, Econometrics and Finance, with a total of 46 and 28 publications respectively. The subfields covered include Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science, General Health Professions, Global and Planetary Change, and Transportation.

The main topics John Gibson has worked on span a diverse range including:

  • Impact of Light on Environment and Health
  • Income, Poverty, and Inequality
  • Urban Transport and Accessibility
  • Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis
  • COVID-19 epidemiological studies
  • COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts
  • Night-time city culture

John Gibson has published extensively in several venues. The most frequent publication venues include:

  • New Zealand Economic Papers
  • Asian Development Review
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies
  • Journal of Development Economics

Recent papers authored or co-authored by John Gibson include:

  • "Which night lights data should we use in economics, and where?" (2020) - Journal of Development Economics
  • "NIGHT LIGHTS IN ECONOMICS: SOURCES AND USES" (2020) - Journal of Economic Surveys
  • "Direct and Indirect Effects of Covid-19 On Life Expectancy and Poverty in Indonesia" (2020) - Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies
  • "Government mandated lockdowns do not reduce Covid-19 deaths: implications for evaluating the stringent New Zealand response" (2020) - New Zealand Economic Papers

Frequent research collaborators include:

  • Geua Boe-Gibson
  • Susan Olivia
  • Joachim De Weerdt
  • Xiaoxuan Zhang
  • Omoniyi Alimi

John Gibson has contributed to book publications with organizations such as the World Bank. These works include:

  • "The Impact of Gas Flaring on Child Health in Nigeria" (2022) - World Bank, Washington, DC eBooks
  • "Effects of Data Collection Methods on Estimated Household Consumption and Survey Costs: Evidence from an Experiment in the Marshall Islands" (2022) - World Bank policy research working paper

Best Publications

  • How Important is Selection? Experimental VS. Non-Experimental Measures of the Income Gains from Migration

    David McKenzie;John Gibson;Steven Stillman

  • Methods of household consumption measurement through surveys: experimental results from Tanzania

    Kathleen Beegle;Joachim De Weerdt;Jed Friedman;John Gibson

  • Methods of household consumption measurement through surveys: Experimental results from Tanzania ☆

    Kathleen Beegle;Joachim De Weerdt;Jed Friedman;John Gibson

  • The Microeconomic Determinants of Emigration and Return Migration of the Best and Brightest : Evidence from the Pacific

    John Gibson;David McKenzie

  • Poverty and Access to Roads in Papua New Guinea

    John Gibson;Scott Rozelle

  • The impacts of international migration on remaining household members : omnibus results from a migration lottery program

    John Gibson;David McKenzie;Steven Stillman

  • Indonesia in the Time of Covid-19

    Susan Olivia;John Gibson;Rus’an Nasrudin

  • Which Night Lights Data Should we Use in Economics, and Where?

    John Gibson;Susan Olivia;Geua Boe-Gibson;Chao Li

  • Eight questions about brain drain

    John Gibson;David McKenzie

  • The Economic Consequences of “Brain Drain” of the Best and Brightest : Microeconomic Evidence from Five Countries

    John Gibson;David McKenzie

  • A land of milk and honey with streets paved with gold: Do emigrants have over-optimistic expectations about incomes abroad?

    David McKenzie;John Gibson;Steven Stillman

  • A review on trade-off analysis of ecosystem services for sustainable land-use management

    Xiangzheng Deng;Zhihui Li;John Gibson

  • China’s Energy Economy: Technical Change, Factor Demand and Interfactor/Interfuel Substitution

    Hengyun Ma;Les Oxley;John Gibson;Bongguen Kim

  • Cost- and income-based measures of human capital

    Trinh Le;John Gibson;Les Oxley

  • The effect of infrastructure access and quality on non-farm enterprises in rural Indonesia

    John Gibson;Susan Olivia

  • China's energy economy: Technical change, factor demand and interfactor/interfuel substitution

    Hengyun Ma;Hengyun Ma;Les Oxley;John Gibson;Bonggeun Kim

  • Migration and mental health: Evidence from a natural experiment

    Steven Stillman;David McKenzie;John Gibson

  • Miserable Migrants? Natural Experiment Evidence on International Migration and Objective and Subjective Well-Being

    Steven Stillman;John Gibson;David McKenzie;Halahingano Rohorua

  • How does urbanization affect residential CO2 emissions? An analysis on urban agglomerations of China

    Yuping Bai;Xiangzheng Deng;Xiangzheng Deng;John Gibson;Zhe Zhao

  • Improving eco-efficiency for the sustainable agricultural production: A case study in Shandong, China

    Xiangzheng Deng;John Gibson

  • The Development Impact of a Best Practice Seasonal Worker Policy

    John Gibson;David J. Mckenzie

  • Substitution possibilities and determinants of energy intensity for China

    Hengyun Ma;Les Oxley;John Gibson

  • The World Bank Economic Review 31 (2)

    Octavio Aburto-Oropeza;Heather M. Leslie;Austen Mack-Crane;Sriniketh Suryasesha Nagavarapu

Frequent Co-Authors

Steven Stillman
Steven Stillman Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
Scott Rozelle
Scott Rozelle Stanford University
Les Oxley
Les Oxley University of Waikato
Xiangzheng Deng
Xiangzheng Deng Chinese Academy of Sciences
Jikun Huang
Jikun Huang Peking University
David R. McKenzie
David R. McKenzie University of Sydney
Gaurav Datt
Gaurav Datt Monash University
Martin Ravallion
Martin Ravallion Georgetown University
Richard Harris
Richard Harris University of Bristol

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