Coal Mining, Economic Development, and the Natural Resource Curse

By Michael Betz, Mick. Farren, L. Lobao, Mark D. Partridge. 2015

207 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Building and Construction, Economics and Econometrics

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/4693b074083e306edd435e372c6121e70808be42

Citations in the corpus

• Coal Mining and the Resource Curse in the Eastern United States (2015, unknown): “…correlated with NR. MMBTUperTonAsh, or million BTUs of heat content per ton of ash, is a measure of coal quality obtained from core sampling.6 Like Betz et al. (2014), we found this variable to be a strong instrument for NR, as coals that provide more useful heat and leave less ash to dispose of…”