Local Economic Impacts of Coal Mining in the United States 1870 to 1970
成果类型：
Article
署名作者：
Matheis, Mike
刊物名称：
JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC HISTORY
ISSN/ISSBN：
0022-0507
DOI：
10.1017/S002205071600098X
发表日期：
2016
页码：
1152-1181
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摘要：
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.