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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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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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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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We investigate how historical patterns of primary production influenced development across local economies in Argentina. Our identification strategy exploits exogenous variation in the composition of primary production induced by climatic features. We find that locations specializing in ranching...
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to the geography view, societies that were relatively rich in 1500 should also be relatively rich today. In contrast, the …
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Are country borders still an impediment to trade flows within Europe? Using a rich microlevel survey with 3 million … average border effect but still quite large. The implication is clear: Europe is far from having a single market …
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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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growth to augment existing income growth measures, under the assumption that measurement error in using observed light as an …
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Experiment." Both academics and popular writers commonly summarize the results as showing that every change in light, even those …
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The history of Daylight Saving Time (DST) has been long and controversial. Throughout its implementation during World Wars I and II, the oil embargo of the 1970s, consistent practice today, and recent extensions, the primary rationale for DST has always been to promote energy conservation....
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