This study on the economics of gender differences examines whether the mining industry acts as a blessing or curse for … mining royalties with local groups that support investments in women and children. Findings imply that mineral mining can …

individual-level panel data that includes unusually detailed classifications of mining workers. We find that commodity price …

Australia is experiencing its largest mining boom for more than a century and a half. This paper explores, from a … national perspective, important economic differences that arise when a mining boom, such as the current one, is generated by …

mining activity in Peru, which grew almost twentyfold in the last two decades. We find evidence that producing districts have … higher literacy. However, the positive impacts from mining decrease significantly with administrative and geographic distance …. The inequalizing impact of mining activity, both across and within districts, may explain part of the current social …

The demographic history of the Jews in the Middle Ages may be characterized by two main phenomena: i) a sharp drop in …

History is a key subject in most educational system in Western countries, and there is ongoing concern about the the … proposes a simple linetime test for quantitatively measuring a human sense of history. The paper reports the results of the …