This paper quantifies the significance and magnitude of the effect of measurement error in satellite weather data in the analysis of smallholder agricultural productivity. The cross-country analysis leverages multiple rounds of georeferenced, nationally-representative, panel household survey data that have been collected over the last decade. These data are spatially-linked with a range of geospatial weather data sources and related metrics. The goal is to provide systematic evidence on obfuscation methods, satellite data source, and weather metrics in order to determine which of these elements have strong predictive power over a large set of crops and countries and which are only useful in highly specific settings.
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