英文标题：
《Nighttime Light, Superlinear Growth, and Economic Inequalities at the
  Country Level》
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作者：
Ore Koren and Laura Mann
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最新提交年份：
2018
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英文摘要：
  Research has highlighted relationships between size and scaled growth across a large variety of biological and social organisms, ranging from bacteria, through animals and plants, to cities an companies. Yet, heretofore, identifying a similar relationship at the country level has proven challenging. One reason is that, unlike the former, countries have predefined borders, which limit their ability to grow \"organically.\" This paper addresses this issue by identifying and validating an effective measure of organic growth at the country level: nighttime light emissions, which serve as a proxy of energy allocations where more productive activity takes place. This indicator is compared to population size to illustrate that while nighttime light emissions are associated with superlinear growth, population size at the country level is associated with sublinear growth. These relationships and their implications for economic inequalities are then explored using high-resolution geospatial datasets spanning the last three decades.
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中文摘要：
研究强调了从细菌到动植物，再到城市和公司等各种生物和社会有机体的规模和规模增长之间的关系。然而，迄今为止，在国家一级确定类似的关系已被证明具有挑战性。一个原因是，与前者不同，各国有预定义的边界，这限制了它们“有机”增长的能力本文通过确定和验证国家一级有机增长的一个有效衡量标准来解决这一问题：夜间光排放，它可以作为更具生产性活动的能源分配的代理。该指标与人口规模进行了比较，以说明虽然夜间光排放与超线性增长相关，但国家一级的人口规模与次线性增长相关。然后，利用过去三十年的高分辨率地理空间数据集，探讨这些关系及其对经济不平等的影响。
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分类信息：

一级分类：Economics        经济学
二级分类：General Economics        一般经济学
分类描述：General methodological, applied, and empirical contributions to economics.
对经济学的一般方法、应用和经验贡献。
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一级分类：Quantitative Finance        数量金融学
二级分类：Economics        经济学
分类描述：q-fin.EC is an alias for econ.GN. Economics, including micro and macro economics, international economics, theory of the firm, labor economics, and other economic topics outside finance
q-fin.ec是econ.gn的别名。经济学，包括微观和宏观经济学、国际经济学、企业理论、劳动经济学和其他金融以外的经济专题
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