“…Both proxies have also been used to assess the economic impact of major policy measures. Nighttime light intensity, for example, allowed assessing the impact of India's demonetization in November 2016 (Beyer, Chhabra, Galdo, andRama 2018, Chodorow-Reich, Gopinath, Mishra, andNarayanan 2020). It is also invaluable to approximate economic activity at the sub-national level, including in India (Gibson, Datt, Murgai, Ravallion 2017, Prakash, Shukla, Bhowmick, and Beyer 2019, Chanda and Kabiraj 2020.…”