Remote sensing of night light emissions in the visible band offers a unique opportunity to
directly observe human activity from space. This has allowed a host of applications including …

Purpose The impact of financial inclusion on economic growth is a topic that is generating
widespread interest among researchers and practitioners. In this paper, the authors review …

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

How does mobile broadband internet affect approval of government? Using Gallup World
Poll surveys of 840,537 individuals from 2,232 subnational regions in 116 countries from …

The SHRUG is an open data platform describing multidimensional socioeconomic
development across 600,000 villages and towns in India. This paper presents three …

This paper examines the economic effects of COVID-19 containment measures using daily
global data on containment measures, infections, and economic activity indicators, such as …

To date, the research community has failed to reach a consensus on the nature and
significance of the relationship between climate variability and armed conflict. We argue that …

Nearly one billion people worldwide live in rural areas without access to national paved
road networks. We estimate the impacts of India's $40 billion national rural road construction …

The nighttime light data records artificial light on the Earth's surface and can be used to
estimate the spatial distribution of the gross domestic product (GDP) and the electric power …

This paper documents strong but differentiated links between climate and urbanization in
large panels of districts and cities in Sub-Saharan Africa, which has dried substantially in the …