Since the release of the digital archives of Defense Meteorological Satellite Program
Operational Line Scanner (DMSP/OLS) nighttime light data in 1992, a variety of datasets …

When observing the Earth from above at night, it is clear that the human settlement and
major economic regions emit glorious light. At cloud-free nights, some remote sensing …

We complement the literature on distributive politics by taking a systematic look at regional
favoritism in a large and diverse sample of countries and by employing a broad measure …

Nighttime lights, calculated from weather satellite recordings, are increasingly used by social
scientists as a proxy for economic activity or economic development in subnational regions …

We develop a statistical framework to use satellite data on night lights to augment official
income growth measures. For countries with poor national income accounts, the optimal …

Historically, the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program's Operational Linescan System
(DMSP-OLS) was the unique satellite sensor used to collect the nighttime light, which is an …

Collection of data on economic variables, especially sub-national income levels, is
problematic, due to various shortcomings in the data collection process. Additionally, the …

How do weather anomalies affect the economy at the local level? This paper presents a new
data set that links weather data to annual average night-light emission data for 24.000 0.5°× …

The urban agglomeration of Yangtze River Delta (YRD) is emblematic of China's rapid
urbanization during the past decades. Based on homogenized daily maximum and minimum …

In this study we examine the impact of large-scale natural disasters on economic
development. A major obstacle in exploring this relationship is the poor data quality on GDP …