-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 …

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 …

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 … theory using restricted death data and mine level coal production data. Specifically, we examine whether higher reliance on …

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

adoption of safety legislation, its scope, and the resources devoted to enforcement.The findings vary by industry. In coal …

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 …

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

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 …

In recent years, the share of U.S electricity generated by coal has fallen from nearly 50% to 33%. The costs of this … transition are spatially concentrated, and mining states have already lost income due to the reduced demand for coal. Coal states … states and counties with substantial mining activity are more likely to be coal fired and to purchase more within political …