MEASURING ECONOMIC GROWTH FROM OUTER SPACE
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Summary
A statistical framework is developed that uses satellite data on lights growth to augment existing income growth measures, under the assumption that measurement error in using observed light as an indicator of income is uncorrelated with measurementerror in national income accounts.
- Type
- report
- Published
- 2012-04-01
- Cited by
- 2,529
- References
- 94
- Access
- Open access
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Keywords
Outer space, Space (punctuation), Geography, Computer science
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