This paper surveys the natural resource curse. We review the mechanisms through which
resource wealth might slow economic growth, and the empirical studies that test for an effect …

Whether it is fair to characterize natural resource wealth as a curse is still debated. Most of
the evidence derives from cross-country analyses, providing cases both for and against a …

The relationship of mineral resources rent with economic performance, greener energy, and
environmental policy is crucial because it could impact how welfare and eco-friendly are …

We track the geographic and temporal propagation of local economic shocks from new oil
and gas production generated by hydrofracturing. Each million dollars of new production …

The cross-country empirical evidence for the natural resource curse is ample, but
unfortunately fraught with econometric difficulties. A recent wave of studies on measuring the …

In existing studies, no consensus has been reached on the relationship between natural
resource dependence and human capital accumulation. To narrow the divergence, this …

The dramatic increase in oil and gas production from shale formations has led to an intense
interest in its impact on local area economies. Exploration, drilling and extraction are …

The authors explore the educational response to fracking—a recent technological
breakthrough in the oil and gas industry—by taking advantage of the timing of its diffusion …

The relationship between resource extraction activity and economic growth has been widely
studied in the literature, and the resource curse hypotheses emerged as a theory to explain …

A primary way that natural resources affect a locality is through the demand for labor, with
greater extraction requiring more workers. Shifts in labor demand can be measured through …