-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 …

approach to data from British cities for 1851-1911. I show that local industrial coal use substantially reduced long-run city … employment growth over this period. Moreover, a counterfactual analysis suggests that plausible improvements in coal use …

this relationship in 1900. Growing industrial coal use from 1851-1900 reduced life expectancy by at least 0.57 years. A …

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 …

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 …