Do resource-extraction booms crowd out postsecondary education? We explore this question by examining the higher … education-related decisions of Chilean high school graduates during the 2000s commodities boom. We find mineral extraction … increases a person's likelihood of enrolling in postsecondary technical education while reducing the likelihood of completing a …

relationship between petroleum abundance and human capital, measured by education and health care. The identical results are …

not enough to overturn my conclusions. Instrumentation reveals that reverse causality running from education to natural …

of education, inequality, and (natural) resources. We highlight two contrasting effects of education and human capital … accumulation. On the one side, education prompts economic growth and enriches the budget of the autocratic elite. On the other side …, education increases the "awareness" of citizens - capturing their reluctance to accept a dictatorship and their labor …

effects, increased household investments, and increased returns to education in mining districts are potential mechanisms …