John Gibson
Senior Research Associate
John Gibson is Professor in the Department of Economics, University of Waikato where he teaches on the micro-economics of development and on econometrics. He was previously Professor and Chairperson of the Department of Economics at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, and he has also taught in the Economics Department and Center for Development Economics at Williams College in the United States.
He received his Ph. D. from the Food Research Institute of Stanford University. His research focuses on poverty and the behavior of households in low-income settings. His research also studies the effect that different data collection methods can have on measurement error in surveys of living standards. In 2008 he received the NZIER Economics Award, and in 2011 was awarded the Waikato Management School Dean’s Award for Research Excellence.
Curriculum Vitae (PDF KB)
Publications
Gibson, John. 2003. "Do Lower Expected Wage Benefits Explain Ethnic Gaps in Job-Related Training? Evidence from New Zealand," Motu Working Paper 03-03.
McKenzie, David; John Gibson and Steven Stillman. 2006. "How Important is Selection? Experimental Vs Non-experimental Measures of the Income Gains from Migration," Motu Working Paper 06-02.
Gibson, John; Trinh Le and Steven Stillman. 2007. "What Explains the Wealth Gap Between Immigrants and the New Zealand Born?" Motu Working Paper 07-12.
McKenzie, David; John Gibson and Steven Stillman. 2007. "A Land of Milk and Honey with Streets Paved with Gold: Do Emigrants have Over-Optimistic Expectations about Incomes Abroad?" IZA Discussion Paper 2788 (May).
Stillman, Steven; David McKenzie, and John Gibson. 2006. “Migration and Mental Health: Evidence from a Natural Experiment,” University of Waikato, Department of Economics Working Paper 4/06.
Gibson, John; Steven Stillman and Trinh Le. 2007. "CPI Bias and Real Living Standards in Russia During the Transition," Journal of Development Economics, 87:1, pp. 140-60.
Gibson, John and Steven Stillman. 2009. "Why Do Big Firms Pay Higher Wages? Evidence from an International Database," Review of Economics and Statistics 91:1, 213–218.
- Lock, Kelly and John Gibson. 2008. "Explaining Maori Under-achievement in Standardised Reading Tests: the Role of Social and Individual Characteristics," Kotuitui: NZ Journal of Social Sciences Online, 3, pp. 1-13.
Gibson, John; Trinh Le and Steven Stillman. 2007. "What Explains the Wealth Gap Between Immigrants and the New Zealand Born?" New Zealand Economic Papers, 41:2, pp. 131-162.
Gibson, John. 2009. 'Why do most of NZ’s best and brightest leave and what brings some of them back?' Motu Public Policy Seminar, February.
McKenzie, David; John Gibson, and Steven Stillman. 2007. "Moving to Opportunity, Leaving Behind What? Evaluating the Initial Effects of a Migration Policy on Incomes and Poverty in Source Areas," University of Waikato Working Papers in Economics 07/23.
McKenzie, David; John Gibson, and Steven Stillman. 2007. "Moving to Opportunity, Leaving Behind What? Evaluating the Initial Effects of a Migration Policy on Incomes and Poverty in Source Areas," New Zealand Economic Papers, 41:2, pp. 197-223.
Hengyun Ma; Les Oxley; John Gibson and Bongguen Kim. 2009. "China's Energy Economy: Technical Change, Factor Demand and Interfactor/Interfuel Substitution," Motu Working Paper 09-02.
Ma, Hengyun; Les Oxley and John Gibson.2009. "Testing for Energy Market Integration in China," Motu Working Paper 09-03.
Ma, Hengyun; Les Oxley and John Gibson. 2009. "China's Energy Situation and Its Implications in the New Millennium," Motu Working Paper 09-04.
McKenzie, David; John Gibson and Steven Stillman. 2008. "How important is selection? Experimental vs non-experimental measures of the income gains from migration," Motu manuscript.
McKenzie, David, John Gibson and Steven Stillman. 2010. “How Important is Selection? Experimental Vs Non-experimental Measures of the Income Gains from Migration.” Journal of the European Economic Association (June) 8. no. 4: 913-45.
Mackenzie, David, Gibson, John and Stillman, Steven. 2010. Insights on Immigration and Development Workshop, Barcelona, Spain, June 2010, “A Land of Milk and Honey with Streets Paved with Gold: Do Emigrants Have Over-Optimistic Expectations about Incomes Abroad?”
Gibson, John, McKenzie, David, Stillman, Steven and Rohorua, Halahingano. 2010. European Society for Population Economics Annual Conference, Essen, Germany, June 2010, “Natural Experiment Evidence on the Effect of Migration on Blood Pressure and Hypertension.”
Gibson, John, Mckenzie, David and Stillman, Steven. 2009. World Bank Migration and Development Conference, Washington, D.C., USA, September 2009, “Selectivity and the Estimated Impact of Emigration on Incomes and Poverty in Sending Areas: Evidence from the Samoan Quota Migration Lottery.”
Gibson, John, David McKenzie and Steven Stillman. 2010. “Accounting for Selectivity and Duration-Dependent Heterogeneity When Estimating the Impact of Emigration on Incomes and Poverty in Sending Areas.” World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 5268 (April).
Le, Trinh; John Gibson and Steven Stillman. 2010. "Household Wealth and Saving in New Zealand: Evidence from the Longitudinal Survey of Family, Income and Employment". Motu Working Paper 10-06, Motu Economic and Public Policy Research, Wellington.
Gibson, John; David McKenzie and Steven Stillman. 2011. "What Happens to Diet and Child Health When Migration Splits Households? Evidence From a Migration Lottery Program", Food Policy Special Issue: Migration and Food Security, 36:1, pp. 7-15.
- Gibson, John, David McKenzie, Halahingano Rohorua and Steven Stillman. 2010. "Information Flows and Migration: Recent Survey Evidence from the South Pacific," Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, Special Issue: Labour Circulation and Acceptance: New Zealand and its Neighbours, 19:3, pp. 401-20.
- Gibson, John, Steven Stillman and David McKenzie. 2010. "Natural Experiment Evidence on the Effect of Migration on Blood Pressure and Hypertension," BREAD Working Paper 284, Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development, Duke University, Durham, NC.