Local Economic Impacts of Coal Mining in the United States 1870 to 1970
Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Mike Matheis, Saint Anselm College
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AnalysisStateLevel010416CoalProdrun.dta | application/x-stata | 74.4 KB | 12/02/2016 05:07:AM |
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MiningManfUScounty1870to1976093014CoalProdrunNC.dta | application/x-stata | 5 MB | 12/02/2016 05:20:AM |
WhiteFBornAgeDist010416CoalProdrunNC.dta | application/x-stata | 3.5 MB | 12/02/2016 05:20:AM |
Project Citation:
Matheis, Mike. Local Economic Impacts of Coal Mining in the United States 1870 to 1970. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2016-12-02. https://doi.org/10.3886/E100364V1
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This article expands upon the current “resource curse” literature by using newly
collected county data, spanning over a century, to capture the short- and long-run
effects of coal mining activity. It provides evidence that increased levels of coal
production had positive net impacts on county-level population and manufacturing
activity over an initial ten-year span, which become negative over the subsequent
decades. The results provide evidence that any existence of a “resource curse”
on local areas due to coal mining is a long-run phenomenon, and in the short run
there are potential net benefits.
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