Using luminosity data as a proxy for economic statistics

By Xi Chen, William Nordhaus. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2011

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Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Transportation

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Forecasting China’s GDP at the pixel level using nighttime lights time series and population images (2017, background): “…used to estimate socioeconomic factors (e.g., GDP, electric power consumption, and fossil fuel carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions) (Cao et al. 2014b; Chen and Nordhaus 2010; Doll, Muller, and Morley 2006; Letu et al. 2010; Lo 2002; Oda and Maksyutov 2011; Shi et al. 2016; Sutton, Elvidge, and…”
Gridded global datasets for Gross Domestic Product and Human Development Index over 1990–2015 (2018, background): “More broadly, the estimation of GDP density (gridded GDP per unit area) has also been an active area of research, e.g., using luminosity and other physical attributes in addition to existing national and subnational datasets 26,27 .”
Lights, Camera … Income! Illuminating the National Accounts-Household Surveys Debate (2016, background): “Substituting equations (15)-(19) into equation (14) leads to the formula10”
NIGHT LIGHTS IN ECONOMICS: SOURCES AND USES1 (2020, methodology): “First, twice as many of the studies cite Henderson et al (2012), compared to the citations to Chen and Nordhaus (2011), in line with what Figure 1 reveals more generally.”
Potential of NPP-VIIRS Nighttime Light Imagery for Modeling the Regional Economy of China (2013, methodology): “Therefore, surveying the world economy in spatial dimensions using technical approaches as alternatives to the traditional economic census is an important and challenging task for the academic community [1,2].”
The local impact of typhoons on economic activity in China: A view from outer space (2015, background): “…intensity from 5 As typhoons are part of the atmospheric and hydrological process typhoons are also likely to reoccur and hence have a cumulative effect on development (Benson et al. 2000). satellite imagery as proxies of economic activity (Chen and Nordhaus 2011 and Henderson et al. 2011).”
A global fingerprint of macro-scale changes in urban structure from 1999 to 2009 (2013, neutral): “electricity use [14, 16, 17, 34–36].”
Monitoring economic development from space : using nighttime light and land cover data to measure economic growth (2015, background): “…nighttime light data and efforts have been made to associate these observations with economic growth in order to cope with estimation errors (Chen & Nordhaus, 2011; Doll, Muller, & Morley, 2006; Ebener, Murray, Tandon, & Elvidge, 2005; Elvidge et al., 1997; Ghosh, Powell, Elvidge, & Baugh,…”
Do refugee camps help or hurt hosts? The case of Kakuma, Kenya (2018, background): “In addition, since the luminosity data is not intercalibrated across time or satellites, we follow Storeygard (2016), Baskaran et al. (2015), Henderson et al. (2012), and Chen & Nordhaus (2011) and control for year fixed effects (µt).”