Using luminosity data as a proxy for economic statistics

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 21, 2011, Pages 8589-8594

  Chen, Xi ^a,b   Nordhaus, William D ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Data quality; Output proxy; Synthetic output measures

Indexed keywords

ALGERIA; ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BANGLADESH; CAMBODIA; CANADA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONGO; EGYPT; ERROR; GAZA; GROSS NATIONAL PRODUCT; HUMAN; IRAQ; ISRAEL; LIBYAN ARAB JAMAHIRIYA; LUMINANCE; MEXICO; MYANMAR; NORTH KOREA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOUTH KOREA; SPAIN; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES; WEST BANK;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; LIGHT; METHODS; RESEARCH DESIGN; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 79957734284     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1017031108     Document Type: Article

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