The Oil Curse: How Petroleum Wealth Shapes the Development of Nations

By Michael L. Ross. 2012

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Cash transfers and labor supply: Evidence from a large-scale program in Iran (2018, unknown): “This decline may be related to a different income effect, the oil price effect that Ross (2008) associates with low labor force participation of women in oil-rich countries.”
International political economy: A field born of the OPEC crisis returns to its energy roots (2014, background): “7 IPE scholars have also found links between oil wealth, gender inequality, authoritarian regimes and violence [50–57].”
End-of-conflict deforestation: Evidence from Colombia’s peace agreement (2020, background): “See Ross (2012) for a thorough review about the resource curse. that the e ect of conflict on deforestation is ultimately an empirical question, and can vary depending on the context.”
Equity, climate justice and fossil fuel extraction: principles for a managed phase out (2020, background): “Some scholars have suggested a political dimension of the “resource curse”, where extraction-derived economic rents are correlated with corruption, bureaucratic inertia, lack of democracy, conflict and repression (Karl 1997, Ross 2012).”
Do land revenue windfalls create a political resource curse? Evidence from China ☆ (2016, background): “…not always benefit society (Ades and Di Tella, 1999; Brollo et al., 2014; Caselli and Michaels, 2013; Mehlum et al., 2006; Robinson, et al., 2006; Ross, 1999, 2012; Svensson, 2000; Vicente, 2010).1 In particular, the one channel that has been identified al, the editor Gerard Padró i Bai, Ying…”
Oil and Autocratic Regime Survival (2015, methodology): “11Ulfelder 2007; Ross 2009; 2012.”