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Measuring Economic Growth from Outer Space

Henderson, J. Vernon - 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 statistical framework that uses lights growth to augment existing income growth measures, under...

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Post-1500 Population Flows and the Long Run Determinants of Economic Growth and Inequality

Putterman, Louis - 2008

state history and the timing of transition to agriculture have much better predictive power for current GDP when one looks … at the ancestors of the people who currently live in a country than when one considers the history on that country …'s ancestors. An even better predictor of current inequality in a country is the variance of early development history of the …

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Accounting for the Effect of Health on Economic Growth

Weil, David N. - 2005

I use microeconomic estimates of the effect of health on individual outcomes to construct macroeconomic estimates of the proximate effect of health on GDP per capita. I employ avariety of methods to construct estimates of the return to health, which I combine with cross-country and historical...

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The Global Spatial Distribution of Economic Activity : Nature, History, and the Role of Trade

Henderson, J. Vernon - 2016

We study the distribution of economic activity, as proxied by lights at night, across 250,000 grid cells of average area 560 square kilometers. We first document that nearly half of the variation can be explained by a parsimonious set of physical geography attributes. A full set of country...

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