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Why do we use satellite data for economic research and policymaking? Satellite data have several features that help us answer the kinds of causal questions about economic phenomena, and the effects of policies, that we care about as economists and policymakers. In particular, there are six advantages that I see as key. In this paper, I address each one in turn, highlighting one or two pieces of ... read moreeconomics research that uses each, and what we learn from it. This is a paper about data and methods, but throughout I'll show how they've been used to generate some very concrete lessons relevant for policy. For more details on satellite data and their use in economics, see Donaldson and Storeygard (2016) and especially the references therein.read less
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