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Allen, Treb - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

simple algorithm for its calculation. When combined with detailed spatial geography data from Europe, the equilibrium …How does the interplay of geography and political-economic forces affect the shape of nations? This paper presents a … quantitative framework for characterizing the equilibrium evolution of national boundaries in a world with a rich geography. The …

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China's GDP Growth May be Understated

Clark, Hunter - 2017

Concerns about the quality of China's official GDP statistics have been a perennial question in understanding its economic dynamics. We use data on satellite-recorded nighttime lights as an independent benchmark for comparing various published indicators of the state of the Chinese economy....

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Newer Need Not be Better : Evaluating the Penn World Tables and the World Development Indicators Using Nighttime Lights

Pinkovskiy, Maxim - 2016

Nighttime lights data are a measure of economic activity whose error is plausibly independent of the measurement errors of most conventional indicators. Therefore, we can use nighttime lights as an independent benchmark to assess existing measures of economic activity (Pinkovskiy and...

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Lights, Camera,... Income! : Estimating Poverty Using National Accounts, Survey Means, and Lights

Pinkovskiy, Maxim - 2014

In this paper we try to understand whether national accounts GDP per capita or survey mean income or consumption better proxy for true income per capita. We propose a data-driven method to assess the relative quality of GDP per capita versus survey means by comparing the evolution of each series...

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Measuring Firm Activity from Outer Space

Bilicka, Katarzyna A.; Seidel, André - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

reporting choices. In this paper, we collect a novel dataset on the light that factories emit at night for a large sample of car …

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Using Neural Networks to Predict Micro-Spatial Economic Growth

Khachiyan, Arman; Thomas, Anthony; Zhou, Huye; Hanson, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We apply deep learning to daytime satellite imagery to predict changes in income and population at high spatial resolution in US data. For grid cells with lateral dimensions of 1.2km and 2.4km (where the average US county has dimension of 55.6km), our model predictions achieve R2 values of 0.85...

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The Value of Luminosity Data as a Proxy for Economic Statistics

Chen, Xi - 2010

One of the pervasive issues in social and environmental research has been to improve the quality of socioeconomic data in developing countries. Because of the shortcoming of standard data sources, the present study examines luminosity (measures of nighttime lights) as a proxy for standard...

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