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- Publications
- Influence
Measuring Economic Growth from Outer Space
- J. Henderson, Adam Storeygard, D. Weil
- Economics, Medicine
- The American economic review
- 1 July 2009
GDP growth is often measured poorly for countries and rarely measured at all for cities or subnational regions. We propose a readily available proxy: satellite data on lights at night. We develop a… Expand
Marshall's scale economies
- J. Henderson
- Economics
- 2003
In this paper, using panel data, I estimate plant level production functions that include variables that allow for two types of scale externalities which plants experie nce in their local industrial… Expand
The Sizes and Types of Cities
- J. Henderson
- Economics
- 1 November 1972
This paper presents a simple general equilibrium model of an economy where production and consumption occur in cities. The paper focuses on the different sizes and types of cities generated by market… Expand
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Urban evolution in the USA
- D. Black, J. Henderson
- Geography
- 1 October 2003
On a sustained basis, cities are of non-uniform relative sizes. This paper addresses three basic issues which arise from this simple observation by examining the size distribution of US cities over… Expand
Networking off Madison Avenue
- M. Arzaghi, J. Henderson
- Economics
- 1 October 2008
This paper studies the advertising agency industry in Manhattan to infer networking benefits among agencies in close spatial proximity. We use economic census data that allow us to distinguish… Expand
Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics
- G. Duranton, J. Henderson, C. Strange
- Political Science
- 2015
Developments in methodologies, agglomeration, and a range of applied issues have characterized recent advances in regional and urban studies. Volume 5 concentrates on these developments while… Expand
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Why countries are fiscally decentralizing
- M. Arzaghi, J. Henderson
- Economics
- 1 July 2005
This paper models and empirically investigates underlying forces that promote governmental decentralization, or effective federalism, in the world over the last 25 years. A move to a federal system… Expand
Externalities and Industrial Development
- J. Henderson
- Economics
- 1 May 1994
Using a panel data set of county-level employment in machinery, electrical machinery, primary metals, transportation, and instruments, this paper analyzes the role of dynamic externalities for… Expand
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