hurting women’s labor supply and economic opportunities. This paper uses the rapid expansion of mining in Sub-Saharan Africa …. Effects are stronger in years of high world prices. Mining creates local boom-bust economies in Africa, with permanent effects …It is a contentious issue whether large scale mining creates local employment, and the sector has been accused of …

This study focuses on the local and regional impact of large-scale gold mining in Africa in the context of a mineral …-wide consequences of mineral exports. Africa’s resource boom has lifted growth, but has been less successful in improving people … communities in Africa in which the extraction of resources takes place …

With growing international interest in mineral resources in Central Africa, the importance of transparency in resource … impacting the effectiveness of transparency in mining development in the region …

-cycle) explains 15-25 percent of average country-level violence in Africa. We then document how the appropriation of a mining area by …We combine original geo-referenced data on mining extraction of 15 minerals with information on conflict events at … spatial resolution of 0.5o x 0.5o for all Africa over 1997-2010. Exploiting exogenous variations in world prices, we find a …