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A Geospatial Approach to Measuring Economic Activity

Yang, Anton; Ai, Jianwei; Arkolakis, Costas - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

We introduce a new methodology to detect and measure economic activity using geospatial data and apply it to steel production, a major industrial pollution source worldwide. Combining plant output data with geospatial data, such as ambient air pollutants, nighttime lights, and temperature, we...

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A geospatial approach to measuring economic activity

Ai, Jianwei; Arkolakis, Costas; Yang, Anton - 2025

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Secrets in Asset Purchases : Estimating the Unofficial Incomes of Officials

Deng, Yongheng; Wei, Shang-jin; Wu, Jing; Zhang, Rongjie - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We estimate the size of the likely unofficial income of a household with a government official by the difference between the income that would be necessary to explain their observed home purchase behavior and the official income. Using unique and comprehensive administrative records on the House...

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Youth Labor Force Participation, Education, and Human Capital in Asia, by Gender, 1990-2019

Fraumeni, Barbara M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

paper with an emphasis on differences by gender and differences across regions. Some comparisons between China and India and …

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Tertiarization Like China

Chen, Xilu; Pei, Guangyu; Song, Zheng Michael; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We document a process of rapid tertiarization of the Chinese economy since 2005. The employment and value-added shares of the service sector have increased significantly. Moreover, total factor productivity growth has increased faster in the service sector than in the manufacturing sector....

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Who Stands on the Shoulders of Chinese (Scientific) Giants? : Evidence from Chemistry

Qiu, Shumin; Steinwender, Claudia; Azoulay, Pierre - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

by the number of publications originating from Chinese research institutions. China's rise in science has the potential …

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Has China's Growth Gone From Miracle to Malady?

Prasad, Eswar S. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

China's remarkable run of persistently high growth in recent decades is all the more stunning in light of the country …

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Growth Elasticities of Poverty Reduction

Ravallion, Martin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

poverty with respect to changes in the mean of the distribution of income, thus analytically linking the poverty measures to … key macroeconomic aggregates. Numerous insights are found in Kakwani's elasticities. However, the literature on poverty … and growth since then has revealed that the impacts of economic growth on poverty, as observed in practice, can be …

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Conditioning Out the Poor? Consumption Inequality and the Design of Cash Transfer Programs

Anagol, Santosh; Fujiwara, Thomas; Navarrete, Martin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

Conditionality can prevent poor households from receiving cash transfers. Re-analyzing five randomized evaluations of conditional cash transfers, we find: (1) non-compliers -- households that do not meet education conditions -- are common, representing 4.6% to 37% of eligible households; (2)...

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Combating Cross-Border Externalities

Shiyi, Chen; Zivin, Joshua S. Graff; Wang, Huanhuan; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

(ECI) in China, which establishes side payments between upstream and downstream provinces along the same river. The program …

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