Nighttime lights data are a measure of economic activity whose measurement error is plausibly independent of the errors … of most conventional indicators. Therefore, we can use nighttime lights as an independent benchmark to assess existing … revisions of the PWT do not necessarily dominate their predecessors in terms of explaining nighttime lights (and thus, of …

Nighttime lights data are a measure of economic activity whose measurement error is plausibly independent of the errors … of most conventional indicators. Therefore, we can use nighttime lights as an independent benchmark to assess existing … revisions of the PWT do not necessarily dominate their predecessors in terms of explaining nighttime lights (and thus, of …

This paper uses a harmonized dataset of annual nightlight to predict district-level GDP for the 64 districts of … that a simple constant elasticity relationship encapsulates the relationship between nightlights and GDP - with the former … Bangladesh as a whole. However, not all nightlights contribute to GDP, hence we only use nightlight emitted by enterprises …