BACKGROUND Accurate and comprehensive measurements of a range of sustainable
development outcomes are fundamental inputs into both research and policy. For instance …

Scientific contributions from remote sensing over the last fifty years have significantly
advanced our understanding of urban areas. Key contributions of urban remote sensing …

With the implementation of China's top-down CO2 emissions reduction strategy, the regional
differences should be considered. As the most basic governmental unit in China, counties …

Popular DMSP night lights data are flawed by blurring, top-coding, and lack of calibration.
Yet newer and better VIIRS data are rarely used in economics. We compare these two data …

This paper evaluates the real effects of environmental justice reform on environmental
governance at the firm level. Using the establishment of environmental courts in China as a …

We investigate whether foreign aid from China is prone to political capture in aid-receiving
countries. Specifically, we examine whether more Chinese aid is allocated to the birth …

The past decade or so has seen a dramatic change in the way that economists can learn by
watching our planet from above. A revolution has taken place in remote sensing and allied …

Since the late 1990s, remotely sensed night-time lights (NTL) satellite imagery has been
shown to correlate with socioeconomic parameters including urbanization, economic …

A growing body of empirical work measuring different types of cultural traits has shown that
culture matters for a variety of economic outcomes. This paper focuses on one specific …