{"id":1402,"date":"2020-01-07T19:30:47","date_gmt":"2020-01-08T00:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/?p=1402"},"modified":"2020-01-28T10:38:24","modified_gmt":"2020-01-28T15:38:24","slug":"vox-executive-summary-measuring-economic-growth-from-outer-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/content-type\/vox-executive-summary-measuring-economic-growth-from-outer-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Vox Executive Summary: “Measuring Economic Growth from Outer Space”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t\tBlog: Growth and Methods and Measurement\n\t<\/h4>\n

\n\t\t\n\t\t“Measuring Economic Growth from Outer Space”\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/h1>\n

\n\t\tArticle by David Weil, Vernon Henderson, and Adam Storeygard\n\t<\/h3>\n

\n\t\t\n\t\tVoxEU: “Research-based policy analysis and commentary from leading economists”\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/h3>\n
\n\t\t\n\t\tUnsplash.com\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/h5>\n\tOriginally posted on September 2, 2009
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This article by David Weil, Vernon Henderson, and Adam Storeygard is the first to introduce the idea of using satellite light data at a proxy for GDP in countries where such data is poorly gathered, and where it might not be available at all for regions within the country.<\/p>\n

They introduce the measure, compare it to some traditional measures and proxies for GDP, and explore the data in a practical application, whether growth in agricultural regions near a city helps the city itself grow.<\/p>\n

Overall, this is a really cool idea that has spurred plenty of research and application. For folks working in national statistics from countries with poor data, or where the data on some locations is pretty patchy, it might be worth thinking about whether it makes sense to team up with a researcher to use this as an alternative.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRead the executive summary on Vox\n\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t

Citation for the published article:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Henderson, V., Storeygard, A., and Weil, D., (2012). “Measuring Economic Growth from Outer Space.<\/a>” American Economic Review, 102(2): 994-1028.<\/p>\n

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Related Content:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Check out a recent application to North Korea from The Economist<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This article by Henderson, Storegard, and Weil, published in 2012, pioneered the use of satellite light data as an alternative measure for economic growth. This executive summary from Vox gives a synopsis of the larger paper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2197,"featured_media":1403,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"tpl-full-width.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[77,60,309,99,100,89,74],"tags":[69,429,177,427,430,428],"class_list":["post-1402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-10-30-minutes","category-content-type","category-executive-summaries","category-macroeconomics-and-growth-browse-by-research-topic","category-methods-and-measurement-browse-by-research-topic","category-browse-by-research-topic","category-time-required","tag-economic-growth","tag-gdp-proxy","tag-measurement","tag-methods-and-measurement","tag-proxy","tag-satellite-data"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2197"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1402"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2776,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402\/revisions\/2776"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}