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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Analysis1870to1976051816runOpenICPSRPost.do text/x-stata-syntax 44.6 KB 12/02/2016 05:18:AM
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

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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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Summary:  View help for Summary 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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