This study on the economics of gender differences examines whether the mining industry acts as a blessing or curse for … on various measures of women's agency and health in India. Identification leverages the plausibly exogenous spatial … mining royalties with local groups that support investments in women and children. Findings imply that mineral mining can …

This paper uses a unique new data set on nearly a thousand manufacturing firms in Brazil and India to investigate the … power disruption seems to significantly depress adoption and returns to ICT expenditures in India. This may be indicative of …

Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS). We contribute to addressing this gap by exploring the patterns of … de-industrialization (Brazil, Russia and South Africa). China is the only country where an expanding manufacturing sector …

Italy, Brazil and then finally India. We also show that autonomous government schools (i.e. government funded but with …

middle-income economies: Bolivia, Brazil, India, Indonesia, Jordan, South Africa, Tanzania, and Vietnam. In order to … linear (Brazil and South Africa) to being U- or J-shaped (India, Jordan, and Indonesia), or a mixture of both (Bolivia …

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 …

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