全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): The Value of Luminosity Data as a Proxy for Economic Statistics

G2TT

来源类型	Working Paper
规范类型	报告
DOI	10.3386/w16317
来源ID	Working Paper 16317
	The Value of Luminosity Data as a Proxy for Economic Statistics
	Xi Chen; William D. Nordhaus
发表日期	2010-08-27
出版年	2010
语种	英语
摘要	One of the pervasive issues in social and environmental research has been to improve the quality of socioeconomic data in developing countries. Because of the shortcoming of standard data sources, the present study examines luminosity (measures of nighttime lights) as a proxy for standard measures of output. The paper compares output and luminosity at the country levels and at the 1° x 1° grid-cell levels for the period 1992-2008. The results are that luminosity has very little value added for countries with high-quality statistical systems. However, it may be useful for countries with the lowest statistical grades, particularly for war-torn countries with no recent population or economic censuses. The results also indicate that luminosity has more value added for economic density estimates than for time-series growth rates.
主题	Macroeconomics ; Development and Growth ; Growth and Productivity ; Environmental and Resource Economics ; Energy
URL	https://www.nber.org/papers/w16317
来源智库	National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/573991
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Xi Chen,William D. Nordhaus. The Value of Luminosity Data as a Proxy for Economic Statistics. 2010.

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