Three Facts About Night Lights Data
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Keywords
DMSP; GDP; night lights; VIIRS; United States;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- E23 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Production
- R12 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General Regional Economics - - - Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity; Interregional Trade (economic geography)
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-GRO-2020-04-20 (Economic Growth)
- NEP-URE-2020-04-20 (Urban & Real Estate Economics)
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