John Gibson
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3703564 |
|---|---|
| NOME | John Gibson |
| PRENOMES | John |
| SOBRENOME | Gibson |
| ASSINATURA | GIBSON J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Waikato |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3886-6873 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 102 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 484 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 101 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1978 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 11 |
Declining Agglomeration Elasticities and the Geography of Urban Growth in China
China’s rapid economic growth is partly due to the productivity gains from agglomeration, whereby firms and workers in larger and denser cities benefit from proximity through knowledge spillovers, thicker labor markets, and shared infrastructure. This study examines the changing nature and location of agglomeration economies in China using resident-based measures of urban scale from the 2000, 2010, and 2020 population censuses. Chinese “cities” a…
An ethnographic study of diagnosis of physical illness in people with mental health conditions in the emergency department
People living with mental health conditions face reduced life expectancy, largely associated with under-diagnosed and under-treated physical illnesses. Inequalities in the way physical symptoms are diagnosed may be implicated in these outcomes, but, to date, studies have primarily understood these inequalities in terms of 'diagnostic overshadowing': the misattribution of physical symptoms to mental health conditions. In this paper, we use the can…
The Fire That Does Not Go Out
Gas flaring, the burning off gas coming out of oil wells is a common practice in oil-producing developing countries. This practice is harmful to human health, especially because of pollutants. This research focuses on Nigeria, where over 10 percent of all gas produced is flared and about 2 million people are estimated to live within 4 kilometres of a flare site. This paper uses child health data from Demographic Health Surveys and satellite-detec…
Reducing the Delay in the Diagnosis of Bipolar Disorder
INTRODUCTION: Patients living with bipolar disorder in the UK face, on average, a delay of 9.5 years from initial presentation of symptoms to confirmation of diagnosis. The aim of this qualitative study was to understand the challenges and facilitators involved in diagnosing individuals with BD from the perspectives of GPs and psychiatrists and how the delay in diagnosis of BD from the first presentation might be reduced. METHODS: Semi-structured…
What Works, for Whom, in What Circumstances and Why, When Integrating Voluntary and Statutory Community Mental Health Services
Integrating services using a culture change model addresses gaps in mental health care. Optimal implementation requires addressing contextual barriers
How Well Do Gridded Population Estimates Proxy for Actual Population Changes? Evidence From China
High-resolution gridded population estimates increasingly support research. They allow study at a finer spatial scale than the usual survey or administrative data (spatialization) and higher frequency than typical decadal census data (temporal interpolation). However, little is known about how accurately these gridded data follow actual changes in population. Therefore, we use China's census data for 2000, 2010, and 2020 to test the predictive ac…
Aripiprazole/Sertraline Combination
INTRODUCTION: Bipolar disorder is a recurrent mental health disorder with a prevalence rate of 1.4%. On average, there can be a delay of 9.5 years from the initial presentation of symptoms to a confirmed diagnosis. Individuals living with bipolar disorder have a reduced life expectancy. There is limited evidence regarding the effectiveness of antidepressants in treating bipolar disorder. The ASCEnD clinical trial will test the clinical and cost-e…
Revisiting the role of secondary towns
Really Boring Art
There is little question as to whether there is good boring art, though its existence raises a number of questions for both the philosophy of art and the philosophy of emotions. How can boredom ever be a desideratum of art? How can our standing commitments concerning the nature of aesthetic experience and artistic value accommodate the existence of boring art? How can being bored constitute an appropriate mode of engagement with a work of art as …
Widespread Public Misunderstanding of Pivotal Trials for Covid-19 Vaccines May Damage Public Confidence in All Vaccines
OPINION article Front. Public Health, 11 March 2022Sec.Public Health Policy https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.847658
Does intra‐country poverty convergence depend on spatial spillovers and the type of poverty measure? Evidence from Pakistan
Knowing whether poverty rates converge within a country matters for regional development policy and for understanding growth processes. In this paper, we use five poverty measures, calculated biennially from 2004 to 2014 for 100 districts in Pakistan, to test for poverty convergence. Spatial autoregressive models are used to capture spatial spillovers. Conventional money‐metric poverty measures, such as the headcount index and poverty gap index, …
Better Night Lights Data, For Longer
Night lights data are increasingly used in applied economics, almost always from the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP). These data are old, with production ending in 2013, and are flawed by blurring, lack of calibration and top‐coding. These inaccuracies in DMSP data cause mean‐reverting errors. This paper shows newer and better VIIRS night lights data have 80% higher predictive power for real GDP in a cross‐section of 269 European …
Measuring macro- and micronutrient consumption in multi-purpose surveys
The micro‐geography of academic research
This study examines micro‐geographic clustering in the production and recognition of academic research. Three U.S. ZIP codes are associated with over 40 percent of articles in the top five economics journals and those articles garnered one‐half of all citations in these journals from 2000 to 2015. Such micro‐geographic concentration is not apparent in other disciplines, even those like chemistry that rely on specialized laboratories. Concentratio…
Modelling the impact of non‐tariff measures on supply chains in Asean
This paper explores the impact of reducing non‐tariff measures (NTMs) in major ASEAN countries. New econometric estimates of the impact of different types of NTMs are used in a global supply chain model to separately model the effects on intermediate products and those sold to final consumers. We also distinguish between whether the NTM cost burden is directed at exporters or importers. This paper makes important advances in modelling the heterog…
Which night lights data should we use in economics, and where
Opposite
Opposite: Poems, Philosophy & Coffee Opposite: Poems, Philosophy & Coffee HELEN MORT AND AARON MESKIN (EDS) valley press. 2019. pp. 60. £9.99 (pbk) John Gibson John Gibson Department of Philosophy, University of Louisville [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, ayaa055, https://doi.org/10.1093/aesthj/ayaa055 Published: 02 March 2021
Direct and Indirect Effects of Covid-19 On Life Expectancy and Poverty in Indonesia
The spread and threat of Covid-19 have resulted in unprecedented economic and public health responses in Indonesia and elsewhere. We analyse the direct and indirect effects of Covid-19 on life expectancy and poverty in Indonesia, and the responses to the virus. We view life expectancy and poverty as indicators of quantity and quality of life. Our analysis shows that the indirect effects on life expectancy, which operate through lower future incom…
Indonesia in the Time of Covid-19
The Covid-19 virus has spread across the world with alarming speed, infecting millions and causing economic disruption on an unprecedented scale. In this survey, we examine the impact of the outbreak on the Indonesian economy, as well as the government’s response to the public health crisis and its provisions for the emerging economic crisis. Indonesia’s delay in responding to the health crisis while Covid-19 spread in neighbouring countries in J…
Measuring Chronic Hunger from Diet Snapshots
To measure hunger and poverty requires studying the lower tail of distributions, which calls for accurate surveying of both means and variances. Surveys often gather data on respondents for only a short period—taking what is here called a “snapshot”—and although these surveys may be adequate for measuring means and totals, they overstate annual variances and the chronic hunger rate. A new method of deriving chronic hunger estimates from snapshot …
Regional inequality in urban China, allowing for spatial cost of living differences
Studies of inequality in China typically ignore cost of living differences between areas. Under the Balassa–Samuelson effect, nontradeables cost more in richer areas, so nominal inequality exceeds real inequality. This especially matters in China, where spatial cost of living differences should grow with recent development of urban housing markets. We use new data on apartment prices in 104 cities in China to develop housing‐related spatial defla…
A worked example of initial theory-building
In this article, we present an exemplar of the initial theory-building phase of theory-driven evaluation for the PARTNERS2 project, a collaborative care intervention for people with experience of psychosis in England. Initial theory-building involved analysis of the literature, interviews with key leaders and focus groups with service users. The initial programme theory was developed from these sources in an iterative process between researchers …
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The Long-term Impacts of International Migration
We examine the long-term impacts of international migration by comparing immigrants who had successful ballot entries in a migration lottery program, and first moved almost a decade ago, with people who had unsuccessful entries into those same ballots. The long-term gain in income is found to be similar in magnitude to the gain in the first year despite migrants upgrading their education and changing their locations and occupations. This results …
Forest Loss and Economic Inequality in the Solomon Islands
Methods of household consumption measurement through surveys
The microeconomic determinants of emigration and return migration of the best and brightest
Which night lights data should we use in economics, and where
The Economic Consequences of ‘Brain Drain’ of the Best and Brightest
Brain drain has long been a common concern for migrant-sending countries, particularly for small countries where high-skilled emigration rates are highest. However, while economic theory suggests a number of possible benefits, in addition to costs, from skilled emigration, the evidence base on many of these is very limited. Moreover, the lessons from case studies of benefits to China and India from skilled emigration may not be relevant to much s…
Miserable Migrants? Natural Experiment Evidence on International Migration and Objective and Subjective Well-Being
A land of milk and honey with streets paved with gold
Poverty and Access to Roads in Papua New Guinea
Literacy and Intrahousehold Externalities
Economic influences on the political support for market reform in post‐communist transitions
FOR THOSE CONVINCED that 'shock therapy' represented the best, or only viable, approach to building healthy economies in post-communist societies, the comprehensive victory of the two main post-communist forces-the Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) and the Polish Peasant Party (PSL)-in gaining over two-thirds of the seats in both the lower house (the Sejm) and the upper house (the Senate) in the 1993 Polish parliamentary election appeared both disap…
For India’s Rural Poor, Growing Towns Matter More Than Growing Cities
Eight Questions about Brain Drain
The term "brain drain" dominates popular discourse on high-skilled migration, and for this reason, we use it in this article. However, as Harry Johnson noted, it is a loaded phrase implying serious loss. It is far from clear that such a loss actually occurs in practice; indeed, there is an increasing recognition of the possible benefits that skilled migration can offer both for migrants and for sending countries. This paper builds upon a recent w…
The Effect of Infrastructure Access and Quality on Non-Farm Enterprises in Rural Indonesia
Rising Regional Inequality in China
Household Bargaining Over Wealth and the Adequacy of Women's Retirement Incomes in New Zealand
Bargaining models of household wealth accumulation point to a potential conflict of interest between husbands and wives. Wives are typically younger than their husbands and have longer life expectancy, so they must expect to finance a longer retirement period. Therefore, when they have greater relative bargaining power, households will accumulate more wealth. There is some weak evidence for this in the United States, but this article finds the op…
Cognitivism and the Arts
Cognitivism in respect to the arts refers to a constellation of positions that share in common the idea that artworks often bear, in addition to aesthetic value, a significant kind of cognitive value. In this paper I concentrate on three things: (i) the challenge of understanding exactly what one must do if one wishes to defend a cognitivist view of the arts; (ii) common anti-cognitivist arguments; and (iii) promising recent attempts to defend co…
Poor rural places in Papua New Guinea
In the late 1960s, Harold Brookfield and Doreen Hart were 'startled' by the order of magnitude differences in incomes from village cash cropping in different parts of Papua New Guinea (PNG). This paper traces these differences, back into a pre-colonial past and forward to the present and concludes, as Brookfield did in the 1960s, that severe environmental constraints, rather than market forces, are the primary cause of the pattern of spatial ineq…
Indonesia in the Time of Covid-19
The Covid-19 virus has spread across the world with alarming speed, infecting millions and causing economic disruption on an unprecedented scale. In this survey, we examine the impact of the outbreak on the Indonesian economy, as well as the government’s response to the public health crisis and its provisions for the emerging economic crisis. Indonesia’s delay in responding to the health crisis while Covid-19 spread in neighbouring countries in J…
Decomposing response error in food consumption measurement
What happens to diet and child health when migration splits households? Evidence from a migration lottery program
Political Timing
This paper develops a theory of political timing. It argues that the timing of those political `events' over which politicians have some discretion is non-random and that politicians attempt to influence the timing of events in such a way as to maximize the political benefits or minimize the political costs for themselves. In relation to `good news', it is argued that politicians will attempt to increase the public attention given to it or the po…
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Accounting for Selectivity and Duration-Dependent Heterogeneity When Estimating the Impact of Emigration on Incomes and Poverty in Sending Areas
The impacts of international emigration and remittances on incomes and poverty in sending areas are increasingly studied with household survey data. But comparing households with and without emigrants is complicated by a triple-selectivity problem: first, households self-select into emigration; second, in some emigrant households everyone moves while others leave members behind; and third, some emigrants choose to return to the origin country. Al…
Australia's PSWPS
This research note presents an analysis of the development impacts of Australia's Pacific Seasonal Worker Pilot Scheme. We estimate the gain per participating household to be approximately A$2600, which is a 39% increase in per-capita annual income in participating households. The aggregate impact to date is small, but the experience of New Zealand's larger programme shows that seasonal worker programmes can potentially have large aggregate effec…
The Myth of the Multitude
Approaches to protests at global economic institutions and Social Forum events have focused on their counter-hegemonic potential and the commonality articulated through such metaphors as “one no, many yeses” and “we are everywhere”, in which the diversity of activism is contained within a common understanding of the system to be rejected. Recent trends, however, suggest that these assessments are far from satisfactory, and oblivious to the fragil…
The Value of Statistical Life and the Economics of Landmine Clearance in Developing Countries
The Ownership of the Sea Bed Under British Territorial Waters
The Integration of Pollution Control
the current policy on pollution control adopted by the Government of the United Kingdom. It maintains that the Government takes a precautionary approach to the control of pollutants, relating the scale of effort to the degree of risk. This basic principle is said to be guided by a number of additional aims: to prevent pollution at source; to minimize the risk to human health and the environment; to encourage and apply the most advanced technical …
Introduction
1992). Introduction: Trends in financing European local governments. Local Government Studies: Vol. 18, Financing European Local Governments, pp. 1-6
British local government finance under the conservatives
Equity concern and the political economy of protection in New Zealand
Economic influences on the political support for market reform in post‐communist transitions
FOR THOSE CONVINCED that 'shock therapy' represented the best, or only viable, approach to building healthy economies in post-communist societies, the comprehensive victory of the two main post-communist forces-the Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) and the Polish Peasant Party (PSL)-in gaining over two-thirds of the seats in both the lower house (the Sejm) and the upper house (the Senate) in the 1993 Polish parliamentary election appeared both disap…
Trade Liberalisation and Plant Exit in New Zealand Manufacturing
Data on New Zealand manufacturing plants are used to examine the impact of trade liberalization on plant exit. Recent theories suggest that the prospect of a declining market might cause firms to adopt strategic behavior that causes low cost plants to exit first. This hypothesis is generally unsupported. Surviving plants were larger, lower cost, and were owned by specialized firms with few plants. Plant costs were more important than firm size fo…
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Political Timing
This paper develops a theory of political timing. It argues that the timing of those political `events' over which politicians have some discretion is non-random and that politicians attempt to influence the timing of events in such a way as to maximize the political benefits or minimize the political costs for themselves. In relation to `good news', it is argued that politicians will attempt to increase the public attention given to it or the po…
Records of Social and Economic History: New Series, Vol. 30: Essex Pauper Letters: 1731–1837
Literacy and Intrahousehold Externalities
Measuring chronic poverty without a panel
How Elastic is Calorie Demand? Parametric, Nonparametric, and Semiparametric Results for Urban Papua New Guinea
This paper seeks further evidence on the elasticity of calorie demand with respect to household resources. The case presented is for urban areas of Papua New Guinea, where just over one-half of the population appear to obtain less than the recommended amount of dietary energy. The relationship between per capita calorie consumption and per capita expenditure in urban areas of Papua New Guinea is not consistent with the view that income changes ha…
Poverty and Access to Roads in Papua New Guinea
Is it Better to be a Boy? A Disaggregated Outlay Equivalent Analysis of Gender Bias in Papua New Guinea
The demographic evidence of gender bias in many countries has provided an impetus for finding ways to study the status of women in developing countries. Because of the lack of accurate intra-household data, Deaton [1989] introduced a method for using household expenditure data to infer discrimination in the allocation of goods between boys and girls. Few studies of discrimination using the method, however, have detected bias even though alternati…
Prices and Unit Values in Poverty Measurement and Tax Reform Analysis
Researchers often use unit values (household expenditures on a commodity divided by the quantity purchased) as proxies for market prices when calculating poverty lines and estimating consumer demand equations. Such proxies are often needed because community price surveys in developing economies are either absent or suffer quality problems. However, using unit values may result in biases due to measurement error and quality effects. In a household…
Poor rural places in Papua New Guinea
In the late 1960s, Harold Brookfield and Doreen Hart were 'startled' by the order of magnitude differences in incomes from village cash cropping in different parts of Papua New Guinea (PNG). This paper traces these differences, back into a pre-colonial past and forward to the present and concludes, as Brookfield did in the 1960s, that severe environmental constraints, rather than market forces, are the primary cause of the pattern of spatial ineq…
SLowlife
December 01 2006 sLowlife: Sonification of Plant Study Data John Gibson John Gibson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information John Gibson Received: October 24 2005 Online ISSN: 1531-4812 Print ISSN: 0961-1215 © 2006 Massachusetts Institute of Technology2006 Leonardo Music Journal (2006) 16: 42–44. https://doi.org/10.1162/lmj.2006.16.42b Article history Received: October 24 2005 Cite Icon Cit…
How Important Is Selection ? Experimental Versus Non-Experimental Measures Of The Income Gains From Migration
Measuring the gain in income from migration is complicated by non-random selection of migrants from the general population, making it difficult to obtain an appropriate comparison group of non-migrants. This paper uses a migrant lottery to overcome this problem, providing an experimental measure of the income gains from migration. New Zealand allows a quota of Tongans to immigrate each year with a lottery to choose among the excess number of appl…
Household Bargaining Over Wealth and the Adequacy of Women's Retirement Incomes in New Zealand
Bargaining models of household wealth accumulation point to a potential conflict of interest between husbands and wives. Wives are typically younger than their husbands and have longer life expectancy, so they must expect to finance a longer retirement period. Therefore, when they have greater relative bargaining power, households will accumulate more wealth. There is some weak evidence for this in the United States, but this article finds the op…
Migration And Mental Health
People migrate to improve their well-being. Yet a large literature suggests that migration can be a stressful process, with potentially negative impacts on mental health. However, to truly understand the effect of migration one must compare the mental health of migrants to what their mental health would be had they stayed in their home country. The existing literature is not able to do this. New Zealand allows a quota of Tongans to immigrate each…
A Land Of Milk And Honey With Streets Paved With Gold
Millions of people emigrate every year in search of better economic and social opportunities. Anecdotal evidence suggests that emigrants may have over-optimistic expectations about the incomes they can earn abroad, resulting in excessive migration pressure, and in disappointment among those who do migrate. Yet there is almost no statistical evidence on how accurately these emigrants predict the incomes that they will earn working abroad. In this …
The Value of Statistical Life and the Economics of Landmine Clearance in Developing Countries
The effect of reporting errors on the cross-country relationship between inequality and crime
CPI bias and real living standards in Russia during the transition
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