The Urbanization Process and Economic Growth: The So-What Question

By V. Henderson. 2003

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Labor Migration, Human Capital Agglomeration and Regional Development in China (2012, neutral): “Whereas increasing geographic concentration of human capital need not be detrimental to national economic growth when human capital is scarce and can be more productively employed through agglomeration (Henderson, 2003), the study finding that low-skill workers attach little”
Evolution and assessment on China's urbanization 1960–2010: Under-urbanization or over-urbanization? (2013, neutral): “Generally, levels of urbanization are closely correlated with levels of economic development (Henderson, 2003).”
Viewpoint: From Cities to Productivity and Growth in Developing Countries (2008, neutral): “Although Henderson (2003) shows that overidentification tests are easily passed, time-varying factors closely related to primacy could be at the root of both primacy and growth.”
Impact of population, age structure, and urbanization on carbon emissions/energy consumption: evidence from macro-level, cross-country analyses (2013, neutral): “The most developed/OECD countries are likely to be ‘‘fully urbanized’’ (Henderson 2003)—i.e., their urbanization levels no longer change.”
Urbanization and city growth: The role of institutions (2007, methodology): “We take the ratio of the minimum (100,000) to mean (495,101) size for 1960 and apply that ratio (.2020) to 2000 (see Black and Henderson, 2003).”
Urbanization and income inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa (2019, neutral): “A large extant literature has examined the relationship between urbanization on the one hand and economic growth and income inequality on the other hand (e.g., Annez & Buckley, 2009; Adams & Klobodu, 2019; Bertinelli & Black, 2004; Chen, Glasmeier, Zhang, & Shao, 2016; Fay & Opal, 2000; Gollin, Jedw”
The continuing debate about urban bias (2010, background): “What might be called the ‘urban advantage’ is based on economics of scale and market access: bluntly put, both firms and workers benefit from Progress in Development Studies 10, 1 (2010) pp. 1–18 dense networks of association and backward/ forward linkages (Henderson, 2003; Venables, 2005).”
Ecological and socio-economic factors affecting extinction risk in parrots (2016, background): “Hence urbanization can occur at high levels before GDP is maximized (Brülhart and Sbergami 2009; Henderson 2003).”
Urbanization and Growth (2005, methodology): “…and Its Evolution Work by Eaton and Eckstein (1997) on France and Japan and by Dobkins and Ioannides (2001) on the USA, with later work by Black and Henderson (2003) and Ioannides and Overman (2003) on the USA, establish some basic facts about urban systems and their development in France, Japan,…”
Economic growth, size of the agricultural sector, and urbanization in Africa (2011, neutral): “Attempts have been made to address this simultaneity problem by using lagged variables as instruments in a panel fixed effects estimation framework, see Davis and Henderson (2003).”
Trivariate Causality between Economic Growth, Urbanisation and Electricity Consumption in Angola: Cointegration and Causality Analysis (2013, background): “Relevant policies to encourage the contribution of urbanisation involve infrastructure investments, trade protection policies and price controls (Henderson, 2003).”