Nighttime lights and power infrastructure investment: evidence from Angola

An increasing number of papers in the literature use satellite data on nighttime lights as a proxy for economic activities, such as GDP or GDP growth. They implicitly assume that the relationship between GDP and nighttime lights works through the demand side, and there is no constraint on the supply...

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Main Authors: Zhang, Q, Cust, J
Format: Working paper
Published: University of Oxford 2016