Another cool piece today on VoxDev- harmonisation of pre-2013 night-lights data with post-2013 data to allow longer-term analysis.
And the data (and replication code) is open source.
Sam Huckstep
🆕 An improved nighttime-lights dataset for development research
Today on VoxDev w/ Giorgio Chiovelli (Universidad de Montevideo), Stelios Michalopoulos (Brown University), Elias Papaioannou (London Business School) & Tanner Regan (George Washington University): https://ow.ly/r7gw50Z9gnl
A new adjusted and harmonised satellite nighttime-lights series for 1992–2023 tracks local development in the Global South more accurately than the off-the-shelf data – especially in panels and at fine spatial resolution.
