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Development Research at High Geographic Resolution: An Analysis of Night-Lights, Firms, and Poverty in India Using the SHRUG Open Data Platform

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dc.contributor.authorAsher, Sam
dc.contributor.authorLunt, Tobias
dc.contributor.authorMatsuura, Ryu
dc.contributor.authorNovosad, Paul
dc.date.accessioned2024-01-04T16:53:56Z
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dc.date.issued2021-03-18
dc.description.abstractThe SHRUG is an open data platform describing multidimensional socioeconomic development across 600,000 villages and towns in India. This paper presents three illustrative analyses only possible with high-resolution data. First, it confirms that nighttime lights are highly significant proxies for population, employment, per capita consumption, and electrification at very local levels. However, elasticities between night-lights and these variables are far lower in time series than in cross section, and vary widely across context and level of aggregation. Next, this study shows that the distribution of manufacturing employment across villages follows a power law: the majority of rural Indians have considerably less access to manufacturing employment than is suggested by aggregate data. Third, a poverty mapping exercise explores local heterogeneity in living standards and estimates the potential targeting improvement from allocating programs at the village—rather than at the district—level. The SHRUG can serve as a model for open high-resolution data in developing countries.en
dc.identifier.citationThe World Bank Economic Review
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/40832
dc.identifier.issn0258-6770 (print)
dc.identifier.issn1564-698X (online)
dc.identifier.urihttps://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/40832
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherPublished by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank
dc.relation.ispartofseriesWorld Bank Economic Review
dc.rightsCC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
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dc.subjectOPEN DATA
dc.subjectBIG DATA
dc.subjectADMNISTRATIVE DATA
dc.subjectNIGHTTIME LIGHTS
dc.subjectPOVERTY
dc.subjectINDIA
dc.titleDevelopment Research at High Geographic Resolutionen
dc.title.subtitleAn Analysis of Night-Lights, Firms, and Poverty in India Using the SHRUG Open Data Platformen
dc.typeJournal Article
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okr.crossref.titleDevelopment Research at High Geographic Resolution: An Analysis of Night-Lights, Firms, and Poverty in India Using the SHRUG Open Data Platform
okr.date.disclosure2021-03-18
okr.doctypePublications & Research
okr.doctypePublications & Research::Journal Article
okr.identifier.doidoi.org/10.1093/wber/lhab003
okr.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1596/40832
okr.language.supporteden
okr.pagenumber845–871
okr.peerreviewAcademic Peer Review
okr.region.countryIndia
okr.topicPoverty Reduction::Poverty Monitoring & Analysis
okr.topicEnergy::Energy and Poverty Alleviation
okr.topicEnergy::Electric Power
okr.volume35 (4)
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