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 …

-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 …

Coal mined on federally managed lands accounts for approximately 40% of U.S. coal consumption and 13% of total U ….S. energy-related CO2 emissions. The U.S. Department of the Interior is undertaking a programmatic review of federal coal … leasing, including the climate effects of burning federal coal. This paper studies the interaction between a specific upstream …

"This paper studies the cycles of nationalization and privatization in resource-rich economies. We discuss available … evidence on the drivers and consequences of privatization and nationalization, review the existing literature, and present … of the observed cycles of privatization and nationalization, and is consistent with a variety of observed phenomena …

This paper studies the cycles of nationalization and privatization in resource-rich economies. We discuss available … evidence on the drivers and consequences of privatization and nationalization, review the existing literature, and present … determinants of the observed cycles of privatization and nationalization, and is consistent with a variety of observed phenomena …