labor market -- nonunionized Kentucky coal mines in the later 70s -- a labor market which is likely to be particularly …

Since 2005, the Chinese government has engaged in an ambitious effort to move China's energy system away from coal and … towards more environmentally friendly sources of energy. However, China's investment in coal power has accelerated sharply in …. In this paper, we ask why China engaged in such a pronounced investment boom in coal power in the mid-2010s. We find the …

share of coal miners among total local labor force and county-level opioid mortality rates. This contradicts the "abandoned … mortality shows sharply higher mortality rates in the Appalachian region, especially in coal-mining areas. This has led … observers to make a link that was characterized by one newspaper as "abandoned by coal, swallowed by opioids." We test that …

This paper examines the implications of a carbon-constrained future on coal-reliant county governments in the United … States. We review modeling projections of coal production under reference and climate policy scenarios and argue that some … with insufficiently-detailed budget data, make it difficult to parse out just how exposed jurisdictions are to the coal …

The findings vary by industry. In coal mining large employers followed a defensive strategy, limiting the breadth of …

-level data in the U.S. coal industry and find that workplace safety deteriorates dramatically under public firm ownership …

Underground coal mining is a dangerous industry where the regulatory state may impose tradeoffs between productivity …

We examine the importance of geographical proximity to coal as a factor underpinning comparative European economic …, alongside temporal variation in the availability of coal-powered technologies, to quantify the effect of coal availability on … historical city population sizes. Since we suspect that our coal measure could be endogenous, we use a geologically derived …

-producing districts of Britain during the U.S. Civil War, and the coal boom in Appalachian counties of the U.S. that followed the OPEC oil … adjusting for migration, we find that mortality increased during the cotton recession, but was largely unaffected by the coal …