Intensive and extensive margins of mining and development: evidence from sub-Saharan Africa
What are the economic consequences of mining in Sub-Saharan Africa? Using a panel of 3,635 districts from 42 Sub-Saharan African countries for the period 1992 to 2012 we investigate the effects of mining on living standards measured by night-lights. Night-lights increase in mining districts when min...
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University of Oxford
2017
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