Daniel J. Henderson

Research Fellow

University of Alabama

djhender@cba.ua.edu

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Daniel Henderson is a professor of economics and the J. Weldon and Delores Cole Faculty Fellow at the University of Alabama and an associate expert at FWO (Research Foundation - Flanders) in Brussels, Belgium. He was formerly an associate and assistant professor of economics at the State University of New York at Binghamton. He has held visiting appointments at the Université catholique de Louvain, in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium (Institute of Statistics), Xiamen University (Wang Yanan Institute for Studies in Economics) in Xiamen, China and at Southern Methodist University, in Dallas, Texas (Department of Economics). He received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Riverside in 2003 and his B.A. in economics from the University of California, Davis in 1998.

His research focus is in applied nonparametric microeconometrics with an emphasis in the economics of education, and economic growth and development. He has also written papers examining the determinants of child health, environmental economics, and international trade. His work has been published in journals such as Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, Economic Journal, Economics of Education Review, European Economic Review, International Economic Review, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Journal of Econometrics, Journal of Human Resources, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, and Review of Economics and Statistics.

In addition to many subfields of economics, his work has been cited in the fields of Accounting, Archeology, Engineering, Environment, Management, Operations Research, Physical and Life Sciences, Production and Manufacturing, Regional Science and Statistics.

His research has been featured in local, national and international newspapers, magazines and blogs, including: (1) Newspapers -- Boston Globe, Chronicle of Higher Education and Sunday Telegraph (AU) (2) Magazines -- Atlantic Monthly, Business Week Online and U.S. News and World Report (3) Blogs -- Hechinger Report, Inside Higher Education and New York Times.

He joined IZA as a Research Fellow in October 2008.

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IZA Discussion Paper No. 10747

The Distribution of Returns to Education for People with Disabilities

Daniel J. Henderson, Andrew Houtenville, Le Wang

Published in: Journal of Labor Research, 2017, 38(3), 261–282 |

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10076

The Three I's of Public Schools: Irrelevant Inputs, Insufficient Resources and Inefficiency

Daniel J. Henderson, Léopold Simar, Le Wang

published in: Applied Economics, 2017, 49(12), 1164-1184

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8771

The Inequality-Growth Plateau

Daniel J. Henderson, Junhui Qian, Le Wang

published in: Economics Letters, 2015, 128, 17-20

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8736

Additive Kernel Estimates of Returns to Schooling

Deniz Ozabaci, Daniel J. Henderson

published in: Empirical Economics, 2015, 48, 227-251

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8144

Additive Nonparametric Regression in the Presence of Endogenous Regressors

Deniz Ozabaci, Daniel J. Henderson, Liangjun Su

published in: Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 2014, 32, 555-575

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7089

Does Education Matter for Economic Growth?

Michael S. Delgado, Daniel J. Henderson, Christopher F. Parmeter

published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2014, 76 (3), 334-359

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6874

Searching for Rehabilitation in Nonparametric Regression Models with Exogenous Treatment Assignment

Daniel J. Henderson, Esfandiar Maasoumi

published in: Jeffrey Racine, Liangjun Su and Aman Ullah (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Nonparametric and Semiparametric Econometrics and Statistics, Oxford: OUP, 2014

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6781

A Simple Method to Visualize Results in Nonlinear Regression Models

Daniel J. Henderson, Subal C. Kumbhakar, Christopher F. Parmeter

published in: Economics Letters, 2012, 117 (3), 578-581

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5997

When, Where and How to Perform Efficiency Estimation

Oleg Badunenko, Daniel J. Henderson, Subal C. Kumbhakar

published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A (Statistics in Society), 2012, 175 (4), 863-892

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5662

Heterogeneity in Schooling Rates of Return

Daniel J. Henderson, Solomon Polachek, Le Wang

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2011, 30 (6), 1202-1214