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

In this review, we examine the links between economic development and social conflict. By
economic development, we refer broadly to aggregate changes in per capita income and …

The purpose of the present paper is to disentangle the mechanisms that connect climate
change-induced disasters, inequality and vulnerability by accounting for both directions of …

Carbon dioxide (CO 2) emissions play an important role in global warming. Consequently,
studying the relationship between CO 2 emissions and economic development is important …

A growing body of empirical work measuring different types of cultural traits has shown that
culture matters for a variety of economic outcomes. This paper focuses on one specific …

We examine intergenerational mobility (IM) in educational attainment in Africa since
independence using census data. First, we map IM across 27 countries and more than 2800 …

When migrants move from one country to another, they carry a new range of skills and
perspectives, which nurture technological innovation and stimulate economic growth. At the …

Why do some countries fall apart, often along their ethnic fault lines, while others have held
together over decades and centuries, despite governing an equally diverse population …

Ethnic favoritism is seen as antithetical to development. This paper provides credible
quantification of the extent of ethnic favoritism using data on road building in Kenyan districts …

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 …