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Sam Asher

@thesamasher

development economist. assoc prof @imperialcollege london. cofounder @devdatalab. india, open data, urbanism, mountains, and @celtics.

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Are night lights (NL) a reliable proxy for local GDP? An answer, in our paper “Development Research at High Geographic Resolution” aka the SHRUG paper (forthcoming at WBER). 🧵1/14 TL;DR: don’t trust existing GDP elasticities. With Paul Novosad @tobiaslunt @ryu_matsuura

Are night lights (NL) a reliable proxy for local GDP? An answer, in our paper “Development Research at High Geographic Resolution” aka the SHRUG paper (forthcoming at WBER). 🧵1/14 TL;DR: don’t trust existing GDP elasticities. With <a href="/paulnovosad/">Paul Novosad</a> @tobiaslunt @ryu_matsuura