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Adam Storeygard
Researcher at Tufts University
Publications - 35
Citations - 10892
Adam Storeygard is an academic researcher from Tufts University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Urbanization. The author has an hindex of 21, co-authored 33 publications receiving 8737 citations. Previous affiliations of Adam Storeygard include Brown University & National Bureau of Economic Research.
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Global trends in emerging infectious diseases
Kate E. Jones,Nikkita Gunvant Patel,Marc A. Levy,Adam Storeygard,Adam Storeygard,Deborah Balk,Deborah Balk,John L. Gittleman,Peter Daszak +8 more
TL;DR: It is concluded that global resources to counter disease emergence are poorly allocated, with the majority of the scientific and surveillance effort focused on countries from where the next important EID is least likely to originate.
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Measuring Economic Growth from Outer Space
TL;DR: A statistical framework is developed that uses satellite data on lights growth to augment existing income growth measures, under the assumption that measurement error in using observed light as an indicator of income is uncorrelated with measurementerror in national income accounts.
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Measuring Economic Growth from Outer Space
TL;DR: In this paper, satellite data on lights at night is used to augment existing income growth measures, under the assumption that measurement errors in using observed light as an indicator of income is uncorrelated with measurement error in national income accounts.
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The View from Above: Applications of Satellite Data in Economics
Dave Donaldson,Adam Storeygard +1 more
TL;DR: The authors introduce economists to the science of remotely sensed data, and give a flavor of how this new source of data has been used by economists so far and what might be done in the future.
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Farther on down the Road: Transport Costs, Trade and Urban Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa
TL;DR: It is found that an oil price increase of the magnitude experienced between 2002 and 2008 induces the income of cities near that port to increase by 7 percent relative to otherwise identical cities 500 kilometers farther away, which implies an elasticity of city economic activity with respect to transport costs.