About me

Stephen Gibbons is Professor of Economic Geography at the Department of Geography and Environment, London School of Economics.

He was Head of Department from 2019-2023.

Steve's research over the past two decades has addressed spatial issues in the economics of education, transport infrastructure, environmental amenities, housing markets, labour markets, health and crime. His work places a special emphasis on understanding causality and informing policy related to geographical disparities and economic performance.

Recent work has focussed on the analysis of the impacts of transport connectivity, contributing to many projects with the Department for Transport, National Infrastructure Commission and private consultancies. Steve is currently a co-editor for the Journal of Economic Geography. He teaches urban economics, geographical information systems and methods for spatial analysis.

Expertise Details

measuring school performance on house prices; spatial issues in education; value of rail transport access to commuters

Gibbons, Stephen, Neumayer, Eric and Perkins, Richard (2015) Student satisfaction, league tables and university applications: evidence from Britain. Economics of Education Review, 48 . pp. 148-164.

Gibbons, S. and Telhaj, S., Peer Effects: Evidence from secondary school transition in England, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics online February 2015

Gibbons, S., Overman, H. and Patacchini, E., Spatial methods, Chapter 3 in Duranton, G., Henderson, J.V and W. Strange (eds.) Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics Volume 5, Elsevier, 2015

Gibbons, S. (2015) ‘Gone with the Wind: Valuing the Visual Impacts of Wind Turbines Through House Prices.’ Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. 72(1). p177-196

Gibbons, S., Mourato, S. and Resende, G. M., The amenity value of English nature: A hedonic price approach, Environment and Resource Economics, 57 (2) 175-196 February 2014

Gibbons, S., Overman, H. G. and Pelkonen, P. O., Area disparities in Britain: understanding the contribution of people versus place through variance decompositions, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, online Oct 2013

Gibbons, S., Machin, S. and Silva, O., Valuing school quality using boundary discontinuity regressions, Journal of Urban Economics 75 (May) 2013 15-28

Gibbons,S., Silva, O. and Weinhardt, F., Everybody needs good neighbours? Evidence from student outcomes in England, Economic Journal 123 (571) 831–874 September 2013

Gibbons, S. and Overman, H.G., Mostly pointless spatial econometrics? Journal of Regional Science, 52(2) 172-191 May 2012

Gibbons, S. and Vignoles, A., Geography, choice and participation in higher education in England, Regional Science and Urban Economics, 42 (1–2) 1-38 January 2012

Gibbons, S and Telhaj, S., Pupil mobility and school disruption, Journal of Public Economics, 95 (9–10) 1019-1236 October 2011

Cooper, Z., Gibbons, S., Jones, S. and McGuire, A., Does hospital competition save lives? Evidence from recent English NHS reforms, Economic Journal, Volume 121, Issue 554, F228–F260 August 2011