This paper uses a harmonized dataset of annual nightlight to predict district-level GDP for the 64 districts of Bangladesh over the period 1992-2020. The premise of the paper originates from the work of Henderson et al. (2012), who assert that a simple constant elasticity relationship...

National accounts figures, like economic growth and government balance, play an important role in economic decision-making and analysis. National accounts statistics have made the size, composition and developement of national economies and their major components. As a consequence, they can be...

The full-scale invasion and the subsequent introduction of Martial Law in Ukraine imposed substantial limitations on data gathering and processing by state statistical agencies. The lack of timely data severely restricts policy making and makes it difficult to assess the scale and speed of...

This study provides new causal evidence for the impact of a large-scale natural disaster on local economic activity in Iran using nighttime light intensity. We apply the synthetic control method (SCM) and nighttime light (NTL) data from 1992 to 2020 for 31 provinces and 429 counties to study the...

We augment Henderson, Storeygard, and Weil (2012)'s two-signal model of true income growth with a third signal to overcome its underidentification problem. The additional moment conditions from the third signal help fully identify all model parameters without ad-hoc calibrations of the GDP's...

This study provides new causal evidence for the impact of a large-scale natural disaster on local economic activity in Iran using nighttime light intensity. We apply the synthetic control method (SCM) and nighttime light (NTL) data from 1992 to 2020 for 31 provinces and 429 counties to study the...

Two well established stylized facts of economic development are a strong correlation between investment and income, and large differences in investment rates across countries. Construction is the largest component of investment. This paper examines the implications of heterogeneity in...

The development accounting literature assumes that sector labor income shares and output per person across countries are not correlated. In this paper, I show that the data reject this assumption for a large set of countries. The labor shares in the manufacturing and the market-services sectors...

THIS FIFTEENTH ISSUE OF THE International Productivity Monitor published by the Centre for the Study of Living Standard contains five articles. Topics covered are: product market regulation and productivity convergence in OECD countries and implications for Canada; the impact of interprovincial...

El propósito de este trabajo consiste en construir una nueva y más sólida estimación de la serie del Producto Interior Bruto de España desde 1850 a 2000. El artículo resume la historia de la Contabilidad Nacional en el país y revisa la elaboración de las cuentas nacionales históricas....