A sharper image? Estimates of the precision of nighttime lights as a proxy for economic statistics

By William Nordhaus, Xi Chen. 2015

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Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Transportation

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• Which night lights data should we use in economics, and where? (2019, background): “VIIRS has better detection rates but the elasticity of gross cell product with respect to VIIRS lights still depends on population density (Chen and Nordhaus, 2015).”