BACKGROUND Accurate and comprehensive measurements of a range of sustainable
development outcomes are fundamental inputs into both research and policy. For instance …

BACKGROUND Traditionally, research into contemporary economic development has taken
a primarily ahistorical approach. The study of the past was relegated to the separate field of …

INTRODUCTION A growing body of research suggests that populations around the globe
vary substantially along several important psychological dimensions and that populations …

The wild bootstrap was originally developed for regression models with heteroskedasticity of
unknown form. Over the past 30 years, it has been extended to models estimated by …

We investigate whether foreign aid from China is prone to political capture in aid-receiving
countries. Specifically, we examine whether more Chinese aid is allocated to the birth …

To show how fast Internet affects employment in Africa, we exploit the gradual arrival of
submarine Internet cables on the coast and maps of the terrestrial cable network. Robust …

The past decade or so has seen a dramatic change in the way that economists can learn by
watching our planet from above. A revolution has taken place in remote sensing and allied …

A large literature on persistence finds that many modern outcomes strongly reflect
characteristics of the same places in the distant past. However, alongside unusually high t …

Social scientists have created a variety of datasets in recent years that quantify political
regimes, but these often provide little data on phases of regime transitions. Our aim is to …

Since the late 1990s, remotely sensed night-time lights (NTL) satellite imagery has been
shown to correlate with socioeconomic parameters including urbanization, economic …