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SUBMITTER: Bruederle A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6124706 | biostudies-literature | 2018
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Bruederle Anna A Hodler Roland R
PloS one 20180905 9
Nighttime lights, calculated from weather satellite recordings, are increasingly used by social scientists as a proxy for economic activity or economic development in subnational regions of developing countries where disaggregated data from statistical offices are not available. However, so far, our understanding of what nighttime lights capture in these countries is limited. We use geo-referenced Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) from 29 African countries to construct indicators of household ...[more]