The "resource curse” is often understood to imply poor growth in the non-resource sectors of the economy, but research into the diversification performance of resource-rich countries is limited. This paper surveys recent evidence and identifies empirical patterns in the economic...

Natural resource revenues contribute to sustainable development when they are reinvested sufficiently in public services, such as education, that offer long-term social returns. Cross-country evidence suggests that resource-rich countries fail at this, spending less on public services than...

Coal production rose by a thousandfold over the last four decades in Indonesia. This paper documents the contemporaneous and long-run effects of this tremendous resource boom on children’s educational outcomes using census and district-level panel data. I exploit geographic and temporal...