Economic transitions have the potential to displace workers and cause social unrest. Coal mine closures in the eastern … closures, such as rising production costs and decreasing coal demand from the electricity sector. This analysis utilizes unique … data on coal mine and power plant operation to estimate the impact of supply and demand factors on mine closure. We model …

What are the child health and human capital consequences of India's large coal power expansion? Using variation in … local coal capacity within place across cohorts, I find that exposure to a median-sized coal plant at birth is associated … children living closer to coal plants. Changes in coal capacity do not predict changes in other child observables, or …

Economic transitions have the potential to displace workers and cause social unrest. Coal mine closures in the eastern … closures, such as rising production costs and decreasing coal demand from the electricity sector. This analysis utilizes unique … data on coal mine and power plant operation to estimate the impact of supply and demand factors on mine closure. We model …

long-run efficiency benefits by removing the incentive to over-invest in capital. The coal storage behavior of U.S. power … plants is an ideal setting to empirically assess this claim: coal stockpiles are adjusted far more frequently than … traditional forms of capital and regulators treat coal stockpiles as working capital. This paper estimates a dynamic plant …

Coal consumption and production have sharply declined in recent years in the U.S., despite political support. Reasons … are mostly unfavorable economic conditions for coal, including competition from natural gas and renewables in the power … sector, as well as an aging coal- fired power plant fleet. The U.S. Energy Information Administration as well as most models …