Assistant Professor Luis Martinez Compares Economic Growth Reported by Dictators to Nighttime Light Production

Harris Public Policy Assistant Professor Luis Martinez was featured in the Wall Street Journal discussing his new research that shows that the amount of light a country produces shows the extent to which autocratic governments might be exaggerating their gross domestic product growth.

“As an economy expands, there are more houses, more factories, more streetlights. All of that produces light,” said Professor Martinez. 

Full coverage available at the Wall Street Journal.