Resource abundance and economic growth in the United States

By E. Papyrakis, Reyer Gerlagh. 2007

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Coal Mining, Economic Development, and the Natural Resource Curse (2015, background): “Using state-level data, Papyrakis and Gerlagh (2007) find that growth in Gross State Product (GSP) over 1986-2001 is significantly and negatively correlated with the initial share of the primary sector in GSP.”
The extractive industries and development: The resource curse at the micro, meso and macro levels (2015, background): “Papyrakis and Gerlagh (2007), for example, verified that resource-rich US states lagged behind in long-term growth (as a result of reduced investment, lower educational attainments and trade openness and higher corruption; James and Aadland (2011) find similar evidence at the more disaggregated…”
Is Natural Resource Abundance a Stimulus for Financial Development in the USA (2017, background): “Moreover, Papyrakis and Gerlagh (2004, 2007) also reported the negative relationship between natural resource extractions and investments in human capital.”
The Resource Curse - What Have We Learned from Two Decades of Intensive Research: Introduction to the Special Issue (2017, background): “…countries also follow different development trajectories (and for reasons similar to the ones explaining cross-country differences; for example, see Papyrakis & Gerlagh, 2007 for the United States, Shao & Qi, 2009; Zhang, Xing, Fan, & Luo, 2008 for China, Papyrakis & Raveh, 2014 for Canada,…”
Natural Resources and Economic Development: New Panel Evidence (2015, methodology): “2005; Ding and Field 2005; Arezki and Ploeg 2011) and provides evidence that the curse primarily operates by undermining the quality of a country’s governing institutions, thereby increasing the incidence of corruption, waste, mismanagement, and even social conflict (Ross 2001, 2006; Bulte et al. 20”
The Local Impact of Mining on Poverty and Inequality: Evidence from the Commodity Boom in Peru (2016, background): “An active literature has described a relationship 8 At a higher level of aggregation, however, Papyrakis and Gerlagh (2007) find a negative US state-level correlation between resource extraction and growth. between mining exploitation and social conflict, rooted not only on environmental concerns…”
The evolution of the natural resource curse thesis: A critical literature survey (2017, background): “…and Zoege, 2006; Dietz et al., 2007 Boos and Holm-Müller, 2013), growth of manufacturing exports (Wood and Berge, 1997), investment, schooling and openness (Papyrakis and Gerlagh, 2007), fiscal policy (Bornhorst et al., 2008), and institutional quality (Mehlum, 2006; Boschini et al., 2013).”