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Newer need not be better : evaluating the Penn World Tables and the World Development Indicators using nighttime lights
Pinkovskiy, Maxim; Sala-i-Martin, Xavier - 2016
Penn World Tables (PWT) and of the World Development Indicators (WDI) better estimate true income per capita. We find that … constant-price series in both PWT 8.0 and PWT 8.1, the two most recent vintages of the PWT. We additionally find that the World … Development Indicators are as good, and often better, measures of unobserved true income as any recent vintages of the Penn World …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011484020
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Newer Need Not Be Better : Evaluating the Penn World Tables and the World Development Indicators Using Nighttime Lights
Pinkovskiy, Maxim - 2017
Penn World Tables (PWT) and of the World Development Indicators (WDI) better estimate true income per capita. We find that … constant-price series in both PWT 8.0 and PWT 8.1, the two most recent vintages of the PWT. We additionally find that the World … Development Indicators are as good, and often better, measures of unobserved true income as any recent vintages of the Penn World …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012969092
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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
Penn World Tables and of the World Development Indicators better estimate true income per capita. We find that revisions of …-price series in both PWT 8.0 and PWT 8.1, the two most recent vintages of the PWT. We additionally find that the World Development … Indicators are as good, and often better, measures of unobserved true income as are any recent vintages of the Penn World Tables …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012992665
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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
Penn World Tables and of the World Development Indicators better estimate true income per capita. We find that revisions of …-price series in both PWT 8.0 and PWT 8.1, the two most recent vintages of the PWT. We additionally find that the World Development … Indicators are as good, and often better, measures of unobserved true income as are any recent vintages of the Penn World Tables …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456459
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China's GDP Growth May Be Understated
Clark, Hunter L. - 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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012958590
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China's GDP growth may be understated
Clark, Hunter; Pinkovskiy, Maxim; Sala-i-Martin, Xavier - In: China economic review : an international journal 62 (2020), pp. 1-18
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012607145
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China's GDP growth may be understated
Clark, Hunter; Pinkovskiy, Maxim; Sala-i-Martin, Xavier - 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011659926
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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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455358
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Lights, camera,... income! : estimating poverty using national accounts, survey means and lights
Pinkovskiy, Maxim; Sala-i-Martin, Xavier - 2015
developing world and its regions. We get poverty estimates that are substantially lower and fall substantially faster than those … finding that economic growth has been higher in poor countries than the surveys suggest. We also find that developing world … living standards have grown faster, and the world income distribution has become more equal than would be suggested by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011345751
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Lights, camera, ... income! : estimating poverty using national accounts, survey means, and lights
Pinkovskiy, Maxim; Sala-i-Martin, Xavier - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010242044