-intensive, mining booms cause virtually no upward pressure on manufacturing earnings per worker, and both producers of traded and local … goods benefit from mining booms in terms of employment. In contrast, labour-intensive mining booms drive up local …

. We study whether and where mining is possible in such countries without raising the risk of civil conflict. We proceed in … (planned and unplanned) mining projects in Sierra Leone. A crucial insight is that new mining projects do not necessarily …

We combine original geo-referenced data on mining extraction of 15 minerals with information on conflict events at … positive impact of mining on conict at the local level. Quantitatively, the historical rise in prices (commodity super …-cycle) explains 15-25 percent of average country-level violence in Africa. We then document how the appropriation of a mining area by …

-country ; panel and quasi-experimental evidence ; Dutch disease ; institutions ; corruption ; financial development ; volatility … ; Hotelling rule ; genuine saving ; Hartwick rule ; natural resource wealth management ; sustainable development …

women's BMIs in the US and how they varied with economic development. This study shows that after controlling for …. Women's BMIs decreased throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries, which may have implications for the health and … cognitive development of lower socioeconomic status children who reached maturity in the mid-20th century. …

We investigate whether and to what extent Chinese development finance affects infant mortality, combining 92 … demographic and health surveys (DHS) for a maximum of 53 countries and almost 55,000 sub-national locations over the 2002 …