Using night light emissions for the prediction of local wealth
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3918595 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nils B Weidmann (0000-0002-4791-4913, University of Konstanz, corresponding author), Sebastian Schutte (0000-0003-0701-9647, University of Konstanz) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 125-140 |
| Publication date | 2017-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Peace Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-3433 • E-ISSN: 1460-3578 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0022343316630359 |
| OpenAlex | W2353911097 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 75 |
| References cited | 16 |
Nighttime illumination can serve as a proxy for economic variables in particular in developing countries, where data are often not available or of poor quality. Existing research has demonstrated this for coarse levels of analytical resolution, such as countries, administrative units or large grid cells. In this article, we conduct the first fine-grained analysis of night lights and wealth in developing countries. The use of large-scale, geo-referenced data from the Demographic and Health Surveys allows us to cover 39 less developed, mostly non-democratic countries with a total sample of more than 34,000 observations at the level of villages or neighborhoods. We show that light emissions are highly accurate predictors of economic wealth estimates even with simple statistical models, both when predicting new locations in a known country and when generating predictions for previously unobserved countries
Cartography · Developing country · Econometrics · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Machine learning · Proxy (statistics) · Sample (material) · Scale (ratio) · Computer Science · Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies · Impact of Light on Environment and Health · Urban Transport and Accessibility
Advances in Data on Conflict and Dissent
Violence and Happiness in Nigeria
Spatial Patterns of Development
Poor targeting
Political uncertainty and the forms of state capture
Measuring the size and growth of cities using nighttime light
Born Weak, Growing Strong
Retooling Politics
Advances in using multitemporal night-time lights satellite imagery to detect, estimate, and monitor socioeconomic dynamics
Nighttime lights as a proxy for human development at the local level
Quantifying the Disaggregated Impact of Atrocities on Socioeconomic Activity
Local Economic Consequences of Foreign Direct Investment in Democracies and Autocracies
Recognizing the equity implications of restoration priority maps
Spatial Differences in the Founding Pattern of Nongovernmental Organizations and Not-for-Profit Companies
The rural limits of conflict monitoring using nighttime lights
Detecting Disasters and Disaster Recovery in Southeast Asia
Research on economic impact of social-distancing measures in the context of the epidemic–empirical evidence from high frequency data of four municipalities
Governments manipulate official Statistics
Sezioni Elettorali Italiane (SEI)
Arid fields where conflict grows
Evaluating Small-Scale Urban Regeneration Using Nighttime Lights and Sentinel-2
A new way to proxy levels of infrastructure development
Can You Hear Me Now? How Communication Technology Affects Protest and Repression
All Social Comparisons are Local? Inequality, Coethnicity and Subjective Economic Position
Food and the forest
Shared e-mopeds and equity implications
From Bullets to Boreholes
Integrating Street Views, Satellite Imageries and Remote Sensing Data Into Economics and the Social Sciences
Experienced poverty and local conflict violence
Natural resource sector FDI, government policy, and economic growth
Mining, rural livelihoods and food security
When Facebook Is the Internet
Geography, development, and power
Is Favoritism a Threat to Chinese Aid Effectiveness? A Subnational Analysis of Chinese Development Projects
Distortions in aid allocation of United Nations flash appeals
The War Will Come to Your Street”
The impact of the Indian Ocean tsunami on Aceh’s long-term economic growth
Controlling Territory, Controlling Voters
How robust are machine learning approaches for improving food security amid crises? - Evidence from Covid-19 in Uganda
Shine a (night)light
Hearts and Boundaries
The grass is always greener on the other side
Diverse neighbors and post-conflict recovery at the village level
Provoking Ordinary People
Connective financing
Does Foreign Aid Bifurcate Donor Approval
Food, state power, and rebellion
Evaluating area-level features for proxy means test models
Strategic Violence during Democratization
Can Religiosity be Sensed with Satellite Data? An Assessment of Luminosity during Ramadan in Turkey
State reach and development in Africa since the 1960s
The unequal effect of economic development on perceived labor market risks and welfare
Computational Social Science and the Study of Political Communication
Climatic Stress, Internal Migration, and Syrian Civil War Onset
Past and Present Group Exclusion and Conflict
Educating Demonstrators
Spatial analysis for political scientists
State Capacity, Insurgency, and Civil War
Why Does Aid Not Target the Poorest
Globalization, Institutions, and Ethnic Inequality
Economic downturns and the Greek referendum of 2015
What does the population in Niger think about a military government
The authoritarian practice of issuing internet shutdowns in India
Colonial Education, Political Elites, and Regional Political Inequality in Africa
Systematic Measurement Error in Election Violence Data
Rebels, Revenue and Redistribution
Do the Lights Stay on? Deployment and Withdrawal of Peacekeepers and Their Effect on Local Economic Development
Predicting Multidimensional Poverty with Machine Learning Algorithms
Come rain, or come wells
Subnational violent conflict forecasts for sub-Saharan Africa, 2015-65, using climate-sensitive models
Reexamining the Effect of Refugees on Civil Conflict
Avoiding fallout from terrorist attacks
Spatial patterns of communal violence in sub-Saharan Africa
Predicting local violence
Pre-election violence and territorial control
Relation between satellite observed visible-near infrared emissions, population, economic activity and electric power consumption
Regional Favoritism
A Bright Idea for Measuring Economic Growth
Using luminosity data as a proxy for economic statistics
Poverty in African Households
Poor Numbers
Is the wealth index a proxy for consumption expenditure? A systematic review
Ensemble forecasting of irregular leadership change
Unequal We Fight
Sensitivity Analysis of Empirical Results on Civil War Onset
War and famine, peace and light? The economic dynamics of conflict in Somalia 1993-2009
Triangulating horizontal inequality
| Unique citing works | 75 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 8,33 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2026 (10) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 68 |