Advances in using multitemporal night-time lights satellite imagery to detect, estimate, and monitor socioeconomic dynamics

MM Bennett, LC Smith - Remote Sensing of Environment, 2017 - Elsevier
Since the late 1990s, remotely sensed night-time lights (NTL) satellite imagery has been
shown to correlate with socioeconomic parameters including urbanization, economic …

Valuing the global mortality consequences of climate change accounting for adaptation costs and benefits

T Carleton, A Jina, M Delgado… - … Quarterly Journal of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Using 40 countries' subnational data, we estimate age-specific mortality-temperature
relationships and extrapolate them to countries without data today and into a future with …

Which night lights data should we use in economics, and where?

J Gibson, S Olivia, G Boe-Gibson, C Li - Journal of Development …, 2021 - Elsevier
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 …

Naturalized alien flora of the world: species diversity, taxonomic and phylogenetic patterns, geographic distribution and global hotspots of plant invasion.

P Pyšek, J Pergl, F Essl, B Lenzner, W Dawson, H Kreft… - 2017 - digital.csic.es
Rosaceae, Amaranthaceae, Pinaceae), some under-represented (eg Euphorbiaceae,
Rubiaceae), whereas the one richest in naturalized species, Compositae, reaches a value …

[HTML][HTML] The economic impact of universities: Evidence from across the globe

A Valero, J Van Reenen - Economics of Education Review, 2019 - Elsevier
We develop a new dataset using UNESCO source materials on the location of nearly 15,000
universities in about 1,500 regions across 78 countries, some dating back to the 11th …

[HTML][HTML] The impact of climate conditions on economic production. Evidence from a global panel of regions

M Kalkuhl, L Wenz - Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2020 - Elsevier
We present a novel data set of subnational economic output, Gross Regional Product (GRP),
for more than 1500 regions in 77 countries that allows us to empirically estimate historic …

Theoretical foundations of emerging economy business research

KE Meyer, MW Peng - Journal of International Business Studies, 2016 - Springer
Abstract In “Probing Theoretically into Central and Eastern Europe: Transactions,
Resources, and Institutions,” we outlined the contributions of research in Central and …

Housing constraints and spatial misallocation

CT Hsieh, E Moretti - American economic journal: macroeconomics, 2019 - aeaweb.org
We quantify the amount of spatial misallocation of labor across US cities and its aggregate
costs. Misallocation arises because high productivity cities like New York and the San …

What is different about urbanization in rich and poor countries? Cities in Brazil, China, India and the United States

JP Chauvin, E Glaeser, Y Ma, K Tobio - Journal of Urban Economics, 2017 - Elsevier
Are the well-known facts about urbanization in the United States also true for the developing
world? We compare American metropolitan areas with analogous geographic units in Brazil …

Regional favoritism

R Hodler, PA Raschky - The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2014 - academic.oup.com
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 …